Bryan Poerwo of EndeavourOS announced today the release of the Galileo Neo update to the EndeavourOS Galileo release bringing a new kernel for better hardware support and some bug fixes.
EndeavourOS Galileo Neo comes a little over two months after EndeavourOS Galileo to provide users with an up-to-date installation media that’s powered by the Linux 6.7 kernel series and Mesa 23.3.3 graphics stack.
The updated installer, fueled by Calamares 3.3, automatically installs the r8168-lts package when the user selects the Linux kernel LTS option. It now ensures proper device unmounting in an event of installation error, enabling immediate reuse for another installation session.
The KDE Plasma offline installation option in EndeavourOS Galileo Neo has also been fixed as the developers managed to rectify several issues in the Bash script causing problems for users running Wayland sessions and fetching old named packages through the KDE Plasma online installation option.
Last but not least, this new EndeavourOS release addresses an issue that caused annoying effects and composition in the KDE Plasma live environment for users with machines running legacy Intel graphics.
As expected, most of the packages included in EndeavourOS Galileo Neo have been updated to their latest versions from the Arch Linux repositories. Most notable are the latest Mozilla Firefox 122 web browser and XOrg Server 21.1.11, which addresses several security vulnerabilities.
The live ISO image ships with KDE Plasma 5.27.10 LTS as the default desktop environment, which is accompanied by the KDE Frameworks 5.114 and KDE Gear 23.08.4 software suites. Hopefully, the next major EndeavourOS release will ship with the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment by default.
Galileo Neo is available for download right now from the official website for new installations. Existing EndeavourOS users need only to update their systems by running the sudo pacman -Syu command in a terminal emulator.
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