EndeavorOS Mercury Neo Available
A new release from the EndeavorOS team ships with Plasma 6.3 and other goodies.
EndeavorOS is one of those distributions you see and immediately think, "I want that!" This beautiful Arch-based Linux distribution performs like a champ because it's lightweight and terminal-centric. Although the latest release is considered a maintenance update, it still has plenty to offer.
As always, there are the usual bug fixes and refinements, which include the removal of obsolete NVIDIA options from the NVIDIA boot menu, the removal of the xwalyandvideobride package from the installation script, improved offline installation, a refined Calamares installer, an auto-install option with systemd that creates a 2GB EFI partition (instead of the previous 1GB) to allow more space for multi-kernel and customized installs.
The big ticket items for Mercury Neo are Linux kernel 6.13.7, KDE Plasma 6.3.3, NVIDIA driver 570.124.04-4, Mesa graphics stack 25.01-2, Mozilla Firefox 136.0.2-1, and XOrg Server 21.1.16-1.
According to Bryanpwo (one of the EndeavorOS developers), "After Mercury was released on February 10th, we received a lot of valuable feedback from new and experienced users, for which we are incredibly thankful." He continues, "Without that feedback we can’t move forward, so keep sending us those, no matter how trivial it might seem. We will always respond to your feedback, whether we are capable or not of addressing the issue or adding a new feature in our future releases."
You can read the full release notes here and download an ISO for Mercury Neo from the official download page.
