Antergos Linux Has Been Discontinued

Suren Enfiajyan writes: An Arch Linux based distribution, Antergos, has been discontinued. The project's primary goal was to make Arch Linux available to a wider audience of users by providing a streamlined, user friendly experience including a safe place for users to communicate, learn, and help one another. There have been 931,439 unique downloads of Antergos Linux since 2014. The primary reason for ending support for it was that the developers no longer have enough free time to properly maintain the distribution. They came to this decision because they believe that continuing to neglect the project would be a huge disservice to the community. Taking this action now, while the project's code still works, provides an opportunity for interested developers to take what they find useful and start their own projects.

For existing Antergos users: there is no need to worry about installed systems as they will continue to receive updates directly from Arch. Soon, an update will be released that will remove the Antergos repos from system along with any Antergos-specific packages that no longer serve a purpose due to the project ending. Once that is completed, any packages installed from the Antergos repo that are in the AUR will begin to receive updates from there. The Antergos Forum and Wiki will continue to be available until such time it becomes clear that users have moved on to other projects.

Oh! Good to know.

[Anonymous Coward]

*In a Rodney Dangerfield voice* "If I only KNEW who Antergos was, maybe I'd be upset!"

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[unixisc]

Yeah, what next? /. giving us distrowatch lists of discontinued distros?

Arcolinux

[moonracer]

Arcolinux is an Arch based distro with flavors for beginners as well as the expert.

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[Suren Enfiajyan]

Honestly, I have never seen the point of Antergos, Arcolinux... and whatsoever duplicating Manjaro. It's a wastage of resources.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Are we just advertising unrelated distros now? I prefer Goatselinux, it's got the flexibility I've come to expect from very open source.

Oh no!

[Gravis Zero]

We've lost so many distros that I think Linux is dying. Yep, only 331 distros left! [distrowatch.com]

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[FudRucker]

some of those Lenovo Yoga's were not Linux compatible until a BIOS update allowed for a smoother install and functioning Linux, so you might want to check Lenovo's website for an update BIOS firmware for your model# of Yoga

rolling releases are not user friendly

[FudRucker]

i would rather navigate the commandline and update plackagtes the old fashioned way on slackware, than contend with the constant updates and broken packages of a rolling release. stable/static releases are far easier to manage and use

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[FudRucker]

thats exactly why i stuck with Slackware, because Debian has those meta packages that unnecessarily tie one package to a whole string of packages, do something like apt remove xscreensaver and it will remove not only xscreensaver but the whole desktop environment and the display manager too,

with slackware YOU are the package manager and YOU handle the dependencies, so if you run removepkg xscreensaver then xscreensaver is the ONLY thing that gets removed

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[RCL]

I'm typing this from a machine that had (K)ubuntu 9.10 installed in 2009 and has been continuously upgraded since, so this is not just a feature of a rolling distro. Running a rolling distro is pretty much like being a software tester (granted, all Linux users have to be developers to an extent). The whole premise of preferring the latest hinges on the fact that there are some missing features in the current version. Everyone of us has a special interest area where we need to stay current. For me, it's the

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[Philotomy]

I know it's just anecdotal, but FWIW I've been running Arch for five years. In that time, I've had an update-related issue twice: once was a Gnome problem when Gnome made the switch to Wayland, and once was very early on when I was using proprietary graphics drivers that weren't compatible with an updated kernel (I've since switched to the open source drivers and had no more issues). Both of those were easily resolved. I've never needed to reinstall (unless you count a hard-drive failure, but I didn't reall

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[FudRucker]

here is what happened to me lately, i am running Slackware current, i know Slackware current is not supposed to be stable, but for the most part it runs great, i love it, but a recent update to Boost to version boot-1.70.x broke gnuradio, i had to reinstall boost-1.69.x in order for gnuradio and sdr software to continue working, now if i stuck with Slackware-12.2 which is an already a frozen stable release i would not have had that problem, but with rolling releases i had that a lot more often, like once a

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[Philotomy]

I've never seen the appeal of the Arch-derived distros, either. Seems like an unnecessary layer, and many of them have separate package repos that lag behind. I'd rather just install Arch, itself.

That said, I don't mind that Arch-based distros exist, and I don't mind if someone else finds value in them. They're just not for me.

The whole "hard to use" distros must stop

[xack]

Arch Linux and other "hard" distros hurt Linux at a time when we need it more than ever due to Windows 10 and the increasing amount of "subscription only" software like Adobe and Oracle. Penguins should be for everyone, but a load of selfish developers and users want to "keep Linux for neckbeards". If the hard distros don't go away then Linux will be at 1% market share for another 30 years. Forced to write this under Windows 10.

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[FudRucker]

ubuntu, mint, solus, fedora, opensuse, etc...

there are plenty of distros that are so stupid easy that all you need to install them is to be alive and a computer to install and run it, even plain old vanilla debian is fairly easy if the user can read and write and follow instructions

Re: The whole "hard to use" distros must stop

[cyber-vandal]

That's why people are simply flocking to Linux. The sheer simplicity of it all and the incredibly patient and helpful user base.

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[HiThere]

It always takes me considerably longer than 30 minutes. Usually at the 30 minute mark I'm still downloading upgrades.

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[Philotomy]

I think you're mistaken. If someone wants an "easy" distro, there are plenty available. If someone wants to run something like Gentoo or Arch and have more control over their system, those distros are available. Seems win-win, to me.

Out of curiosity, how are you "forced" to post using Windows 10? Do you mean you want to use Linux, but the existence of Arch/Gentoo/etc. forces you to run Windows 10, instead, for some reason? Why not just install Ubuntu or Mint or some other "easier" distro?

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[thegarbz]

Arch Linux and other "hard" distros hurt Linux at a time when we need it more than ever due to Windows 10

What are you talking about. Windows 10 is woefully hard to use. Have you ever tried to administer Windows 10 using only Powershell? It's nigh impossible without a beard that rivals that of the best Linux admin. "Hard to use" underpins "easy to use" across the entire ecosystem of software. It's the hard to use that allows configuration, options, and flexibility. "Easy to use" is just window dressing hiding the hard stuff.

If you eliminate the hard stuff you ultimately kill the easy stuff, and Linux on servers

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[LostMyAccount]

Isn't that the point, though, is that there are a zillion distros whose principal difference is which desktop art their maintainers prefer? Meanwhile, the considerable skills and resources spent creating and maintaining a unique distro don't get applied to polishing/perfecting existing/better distros.

I still don't see how Linux, especially desktop Linux, is better because there's 30 mediocre variations with trivial differences.

But it also raises the question as to whether a movement/community can achieve t

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[telek83]

A lot of people (including myself) don't like specific things about xyz distro, rather then let committee decide which way a distro goes, people either create there own or fork an existing, I don't blame them, but I do agree it's the Linux communities soft spot, it's also it's advantage. You can't kill something so diverse, Debian dies tomorrow someone forks and changes it or take parts from Slackware to bring back down to earth again.. it happens all the time... If we pooled all our resources into one proj

Move them to Manjaro?

[bill_mcgonigle]

Why aren't they migrating them to Manjaro, where the momentum is?

Mere disappointment? Take care of the users, fellas.

Because the financial model of OSS is broken

[shanen]

Why aren't they migrating them to Manjaro, where the momentum is?

Mere disappointment? Take care of the users, fellas.

Some basic principles of how (I think) it should work:

(1) The users should be able to take care of themselves based on what they are willing to pay for.

(2) The people doing the work should be fairly compensated for their efforts.

(3) The modular projects should be evaluated by success criteria accepted in advance by all the stakeholders.

When I put it all together, my solution approach is called a CSB (Charity Share Brokerage). It should work at every level, from the distro at the top down to individual featu

Good Riddance

[lexman098]

I could never get it to install anyway. It needed an internet connection, but my router was no where near the PC. I have wifi drivers on a USB stick, but they're apparently not compatible with arch. Does it not use dkms? After busting out the 100ft ethernet cable, it still didn't recognize my motherboard's RAID setup. None of these problems exist on Ubuntu.

That reminds me - for those complaining about fragmentation and various distros giving "Linux" a bad name: don't call it "Linux". Ubuntu and Mint etc

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[Cro Magnon]

Agreed. If someone wants to use Slackware, Arch, or Gentoo, they probably don't need to be pointed that way. I'd tell Grandma about Ubuntu, or maybe just give her a System76 and not even mention the OS.

It was doomed by its name...

[MrKevvy]

"An, ter gos Linux!"

("And, there goes Linux" just in case it isn't obvious.)

Iâ(TM)m an Antergos user.

[tgetzoya]

I use it on my work laptop and my home desktop. It worked right out of the box for me on every machine Iâ(TM)ve put it on, which I canâ(TM)t say the same for Manjaro. Iâ(TM)m not switching to Manjaro or switching distorts, I think Iâ(TM)ll be switching over to a *BSD now.

Re: Iâ(TM)m an Antergos user.

[cyber-vandal]

Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> switch off smart punctuation

Too much time wasted on Distros

[Jastiv]

As much as I love the hundreds of Linux distros, a linux for this, a linux for that, a linux for your chicken, a linux for you cat, etc, I think we, as a community should focus more on making better, more polished applications for all the things that people us a computer for. Its often that one specialist application that holds someone back from switching, or induces them to use proprietary software. So, find applications that you find interesting and/or useful. Test them, get them polished, report bugs,

application improvements

[Jastiv]

We can't (and should not) force people to spend their free time in certain ways, but when you look at things, is making a distro really objectively more fun than improving applications, or do people do it more because it gets them recognition in the community and strokes their ego? Basically, what I am saying is that application improvement should get more recognition and community attention.