Antergos
Discontinued Linux distribution based on Arch Linux / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Antergos is a discontinued Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. By default, it includes the GNOME desktop environment, but it also offers options for Cinnamon, MATE, KDE Plasma 5, Deepin, and Xfce desktops.[3] Originally released in July 2012 as Cinnarch,[4] it quickly gained popularity and was ranked among the top 40 most popular distributions on DistroWatch by June 2013.[5] The name Antergos derived from the Galician word for ancestors, was chosen to "to link the past with the present".[6]
Developer | Alexandre Filgueira and team[1] |
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OS family | Linux (Unix-like) |
Working state | Discontinued |
Source model | Open source |
Initial release | 7 May 2012; 11 years ago (2012-05-07) |
Final release | 19.4[2] / 4 April 2019; 5 years ago (2019-04-04) |
Package manager | Pacman |
Platforms | x86-64 |
Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
Default user interface | GNOME Shell, Cinnamon, Xfce, Command-line, Plasma 5, Openbox, MATE, deepin |
License | Mostly GNU GPL and various other free software licenses, with a few proprietary components such as Flash Player |
Succeeded by | EndeavourOS |
Official website | antergos |
Development of Antergos was discontinued on May 21, 2019, due to the limited availability of time for the volunteer developers.[7] It was succeeded by EndeavourOS, which was released on 15 July 2019.[8]