Antergos
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Antergos using GNOME 3.8
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| Developer | Alexandre Filgueira and team |
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| OS family | Unix-like |
| Source model | Open-source software |
| Initial release | 7 May 2012 |
| Latest release | 2017.01.06 / 6 January 2017 |
| Package manager | Pacman |
| Platforms | x86-64 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
| Default user interface | GNOME Shell, Cinnamon, Xfce, Command-line, Plasma 5, Openbox, MATE |
| License | GNU GPL and various other free software licenses |
| Official website | antergos |
Antergos is a Linux distribution based upon Arch Linux. It uses the GNOME 3 desktop environment by default but it can also employ the Cinnamon, MATE, KDE Plasma 5 and Xfce desktops. It was released on July 2012 as Cinnarch and by May 2013 it ranked among the top 30 most popular distributions at DistroWatch. The Galician word Antergos (meaning: ancestors) was chosen "to link the past with the present".
Initially the project began as Cinnarch and the desktop environment used by this distribution was Cinnamon, a fork of GNOME Shell developed by the Linux Mint team. In April 2013 the team switched the default desktop environment from Cinnamon to GNOME version 3.6, given the difficulty of keeping Cinnamon (which did not make it a priority to stay compatible with the latest GTK libraries) in the repositories of a rolling release like Arch Linux. The distribution was accordingly renamed to Antergos and released under the new name in May 2013.
Other changes in the default configuration of the system included: Nautilus replacing the Nemo file Manager, GDM replacing MDM (Mint Display Manager) as desktop manager and Empathy replacing Pidgin as the messaging client.
Since version 2014.05.26, Antergos partnered with the Numix project to bring Numix-Square icons and an exclusive Numix-Frost theme to the operating system.
On 7 March 2015, an Antergos Minimal ISO was made available, providing only necessary components for the installer to function.
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