Dopo un lungo torpore ecco giungere a noi una nuova ISO di Antergos, la distro derivata di Arch nata dalle ceneri di Cinnarch. 
Antergos 2013.08.20 porta con se numerose migliorie all'installer grafico Cnchi nonché al software di notifica aggiornamenti Remendo. Per chi se la fosse persa, la particolarità di Antergos è quella di poter installare Arch con un installer grafico e già configurata a seconda dell'ambiente che andremo a scegliere in fase di installazione.

Antergos Openbox

È ora possibile installare Openbox oltre che Gnome, Cinnamon, Xfce, Razor-qt o la versione base da personalizzare a mano.

Cnchi consente ora, durante il processo di installazione, di installare software di terze parti come codec multimediali, adobe flash player etc, così come già accade nell'installer di Ubuntu o Linux Mint.

Cnchi: ora è possibile installare codec multimediali e flash direttamente durante l'installazione
Di seguito la lista completa delle novità (in lingua inglese perché è tanta roba da tradurre e mi scoccio):

Cnchi:

  • [Feature] Openbox installation
  • [Feature] Base installation. This feature will install just a base system, without Desktop Environment, but with some useful extra command line programs.
  • [Feature] Give Cnchi a custom package list in xml format. Take http://install.antergos.com/packages-0.3.xml as an example.
  • [Feature] Initial UEFI support.
  • [Feature] Choose your bootloader from a parameter. Force type to install. Can be ‘bios’, ‘efi’,  ’ask’ or ‘none’
E.g.: sudo cnchi -g efi
  • [Feature] Third-party software installation. Check if you want to install some propietary software.
  • [Feature] Give the user the choice of not install any bootloader
  • [Feature] LVM2 support
  • [Feature-Experimental] Use aria2 to download the packages. This should speed up the download process, but it is on an early stage.
E.g.: sudo cnchi -a
  • [Feature-Experimental] Enable alongside installation. This will allow you to install Antergos alongside another Operating System. Feature also on an early stage.
E.g.: sudo cnchi -s
  • [Fix] Smoother transitions between screens when the installation is running in the background
  • [Fix] Migrated paths to /usr/bin
  • [Fix] Fixed root alwasy being formated as ext4
  • [Fix] Fixed keyboard-variant configuration
  • [Fix] User name can’t contain dots. Cnchi doesn’t allow now to go on if user name contains dots
  • [Fix] Missing strings to be translated
  • [Fix] Hide mount points when ‘swap’ filesystem is selected
  • [Fix] Allow to go on with the installation using battery on laptops
  • [Fix] Fixed problem where the locale is not saved if the locale is only used in one country
  • [Fix] Use /etc/sudoers.d/ to avoid overwriting /etc/sudoers
  • [Fix] Set SNA acceleration method when Intel card is present
  • [Fix] Not freezing anymore when a fatal error happens

CLI Installer

  • [Feature] RAID5/6 support for btrfs
  • [Feature] Same desktops to choose as in Cnchi

Gnome:

  • Antergos logo on GDM screen
  • Extra Empathy packages to use several networks
  • Included networkmanager-pptp for VPN
  • Included in default installation:
gnome-disk-utility, gnome-tweak-tool, gnome-shell-extensions
  • Show Minimize and Close buttons by default

Cinnamon:

  • Extra Empathy packages to use several networks
  • Included networkmanager-pptp for VPN
  • Included gnome-disk-utility in default installation

Xfce:

  • Included networkmanager-pptp for VPN
  • Included gnome-disk-utility in default installation

Razor-QT:

  • Using Openbox as Window Manager instead of KWin
  • Removing KDE dependencies
  • qconnman-ui as network manager (QT Connman interface to avoid KDE dependencies on networkmanager applet)