So Long, Cinnamon: Cinnarch Linux is reborn as Antergos - buchananlatepred

Diarrhoeic PCWorld readers may recall Cinnarch, a Linux statistical distribution I covered subterminal fall that combined Arch Linux with the relatively new and alternative Ceylon cinnamon desktop surroundings.

Cinnarch was antitrust in beta at the time, but freshly the jut out team rump it announced that they planned to forsake Cinnamon as a default desktop, calling it "too much a burthen to maintain/update going frontwards."

Making good connected their predict, the team this week announced the birth of Antergos, a brand-new Arch-based Linux distribution that's based on GNOME 3 instead.

'Late, gracious, and powerful'

"After a month since our last release under the name 'Cinnarch,' we're glad to announce the new constitute of our project and our first release being come out of beta," the squad wrote in a post on Sunday. "We're stable enough to make this step.

"Antergos," they added, is a Galician word "to link the past with the present."

Still based happening Arch Linux, the distro aims to allow for a "advanced, elegant, and powerful operative system" that's both available to use and customizable.

Four desktop options

Antergos is notable not just for its economic consumption of GNOME 3 by default option, but also for its Cnchi graphical installer, shown down the stairs, which now lets users prefer to install Cinnamon, Xfce, or Razor-qt As well.

"You May question why Razor-qt and not KDE," the project team wrote. "Fit, this one was rightful like an experiment with QT desktops, actually, selecting Razor-qt will instal too KDE because we still have to figure out some QT packages to use."

Numerous bug fixes were also incorporated in Antergos, which should be installed as a replacement by all Cinnarch users. Directions for doing so are provided on the Antergos place, equally are free, downloadable .iso images for 32- and 64-chip computers.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/451852/so-long-cinnamon-cinnarch-linux-is-reborn-as-antergos.html

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