Anyone hear about the attempt to revive Antergos as “Antergos-NeXT”? It appears the original Antergos folks complained about the name and now the project is called Pulsar Linux. It looks like they are using EndeavourOS as a source for the iso build. Now it appears to back to “Antergos-NeXT?”
I had heard of it just recently and went to check it out but the Source forge page had been taken down. so they renamed it good to know.
This is news to me. And that’s fine by me, I’m happy with Endeavour. 
Interesting choice to revive the Cnchi installer. I had inconsistent experiences along with my share of frustrations with failed attempts to install using it. Calamares has been a much more consistent and pleasant experience for me.
I agree. Not sure why they’re going that route.
Yeah I was interested to see what they may have changed with the installer. They say they “Fixed it” so curiosity is there to see what they did. however it looks like you have to make the ISO yourself and I no longer have arch-iso and not that interested in seeing what they have done to it.
@joekamprad Myabe you interested?
ISO wouldn’t build for me…
error: target not found: pulsar-wallpapers
From the ReadMe…
Modern Arch-Based live installer ISO, based on the maintained EndeavourOS-ISO.
Provides a live KDE Plasma environment to install Arch Linux using Cnchi, the original Antergos installer that was used all the way to 2019 — now patched for modern Python, with multi-DE support and the original installer experience.
Security & Transparency:All Pulsar Linux ISOs are built automatically using GitHub Actions CI directly from the public source code. This ensures a 100% clean, transparent, and tamper-proof build process. The final images are then uploaded to SourceForge for free hosting.
Desktop Editions
Desktop Edition Status KDE Plasma pulsar-kde default GNOME pulsar-gnome available XFCE pulsar-xfce available Cinnamon pulsar-cinnamon available Budgie pulsar-budgie available Deepin pulsar-deepin available LXQt pulsar-lxqt available Openbox pulsar-openbox available i3 pulsar-i3 available MATE pulsar-mate available
in making sure no one getting it wrong yes, its not in anyway related with Antergos, only someone taking cnchi and try to make it work. But taking Antergos Branding and claiming it revive it is clickbait 
I liked the way CNCHI was looking, but from the codeside it has some flaws with not beeing modular, and have stuff hardcoded. This was not the biggest issue with Antergos back in time, but for these tried to reuse it like reborn and even me.
But from my personal opinion, It would be a much better approach to create a new installer, something that is really easy to support as an example?
yes a copy clone basically of EndeavourOS ISO framework.
package missing
What is it CNCHI?
@joekamprad Is it truth?
Update 13/06/26: For some reason, some people understood that this is a revival of the original Antergos distribution. That’s a misinterpretation; the first two paragraphs of the review are simply an informative note on the project’s history. This is actually a completely new project that just borrows the name. It also appears that the developers of Antergos NeXT have decided to change the project’s name to Pulsar Linux. Why the sudden change? I reached out to Celestia Ludenberg, developer of Pulsar Linux, who told me that a former member of the original Antergos team reached out and asked them not use the Antergos brand.
The installer, like calmares
If I’m not mistaken, the RebornOS have adopted the Cnchi installer, when Karasu (a lead Antergos dev) helped them out with the creation of their distro.. They kept it maintained & fixing its many, known issues (according to themselves).
At least, they started off with Cinchi, I don’t know if they’ve swapped it later…
The installer seems to be Calamares now.
I wouldn’t dare asking WHY they did so!!! 
The RebornOS crew tried with the Cnchi installer, but that was quickly dropped in favor of Calamares, and they have used Calamares for at least a few years at this point.
there was an attempt to rebuild cnchi was called phoenix ? but also not there anymore.
hey antergos-next dev here. just wanted to clear things up since theres some weird fud going around.
- this is a community fan project. nobody is claiming to be the original devs. we just liked antergos and wanted to build something around it.
- its not a scam. everything is open source and transparent.
- the 404s were just repo restructuring when pulsar split off. everything is up now.
also, i reached out to dustin (one of the three original core devs) before using the name and he said:
“I think it’s fine so long as it’s clear that your project is your own and not affiliated with the original. Have fun!”
code is here if anyone wants to check: https://github.com/Antergos-NeXT
but why?
No issue with it, but why not leaving the legacy were it was and reuse the name at all?