Cassini, packed with new features, is here

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It is not the case that dracut is something exotic in the Linux world :wink:
It is something Archlinux is not doing by default yesā€¦ but compared to mkinitcpio it does a lot of things in a more simple way.

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Suomenkielisille: Cassini: reippaasti uutuuksia, nyt!
:finland:

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Thank you for this new release and well wishes for the holidays! Now I deserve a flogging for three reasons.

Firstly I rejected the XFCE that I used to have, in favor of Plasma. :-1:

Secondly, it was just that I didnā€™t like the shooting goddessā€™ name and I didnā€™t care as well about the space vessel having a Puertorican as crew member.

This Cassini was an astronomerā€™s name, not a figure of Greek mythology so the labelling has gotten better only in that case. Again, thank you for this incredible distro, the best one I have had this year! Donā€™t sweat the ratings by other people and websites, this one is second to nobody! ā€œArch with a few apps and a beautiful installer tacked on, and named after some boatā€, so whatā€™s your point chief? Bring it on. Iā€™ve totally given up trying to install Arch itself, this one will have to do, I mean, why try harder?

The third reason is either because I keep rambling here, or because I keep distro-hopping. I continue to do so but might have long gaps in it, as I have at least three good ones to keep me busy and this one at first! :heart_eyes:

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Santa came early this year :slight_smile:
thank you and happy holidays

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Isnā€™t it great? Itā€™s like boxing day a week early. :laughing:

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Congrats! Lots of work, always nice to see everything wrapped and packaged into a new iso :grin:

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Italian: ƈ arrivato Cassini, ricco di nuove funzionalitƠ

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:fr: translation is here: Cassini rempli de nouvelles fonctionnalitƩs est arrivƩ

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Hello. I thought Iā€™d give Arch a try again after seeing the release of Endeavor. Unfortunately I am not able to install Endeavor because after the installation summary I am thrown back to the bootloader section and the installer gets stuck here. Of course Iā€™ve already restarted the PC several times and loaded the iso again. (Checksum matchesā€¦)

While im writing the installation has finished. so this seems to be only a display bug? anyone else has the same problem?

Is the dracut package coming from Arch or does EndeavourOS have it in its own repo?

I am just asking because the Arch package looks unmaintained: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/dracut/
Last update in February, flagged out of date since July.

Edit: Looks like the maintainer left Arch: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/grazzolini

Giancarlo Razzolini @grazzolini
left project Arch Linux / Arch Linux Keyring

Some more things about the maintainer: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Toolchain-State

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Yes, that is true. Dracut is simpler and more elegant.

However, the question is, is it simpler to provide support for it, when things go wrong?

Time will tell. Iā€™m not too pessimistic about it, but there might be some teething issues and some pissed off, entitled newbiesā€¦ Fun times. :popcorn: :frog:

As far as my installed system is concerned, I see no need to change anything, so Iā€™ll just stay on mkinitcpio and GRUB. When I eventually decide to reinstall EndeavourOS (which, at present, I have no need to even consider), Iā€™ll probably stick to the new defaults, weā€™ll seeā€¦

Great work with the new ISO! Very exciting stuff.

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I wouldnā€™t worry about that. Issues like that one with GRUB happen about once every 5 years, and the worst you can expect, as an end user, is having to do a 15 minute procedure to fix it, the detailed step-by-step instructions for which will be published before you even notice that a problem exists. From a position of an end user, itā€™s not something worth sweating over, in my opinion.

Now, if you are a distro maintainer, itā€™s a bit bigger headache when something like that happens, as requests for help keep on happening for a month or two.

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It is coming from Arch currently.

We are monitoring the situation. If it continues to not be updated we can add it to our repos but would prefer not to unless it becomes a necessity.

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Thanks, now all I need would be a short tutorial on how to migrate an existing UEFI install to dracut xD
I am willing to give it a try as I read somewhere that it enables faster boot times.

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We will be putting something together for that. It is pretty simple. It just takes time to put together because it has to be tested for both systemd-boot and grub. The testing takes longer than the writing in this case.

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Better create a new topic related to your issue, as this is indeed not the default behavior of the installer.
There you could try providing install log:: //provide logs//:: And welcome to the purple universe :enos: