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Happy Endeavour day everyone!
Published on July 15, 2023 by Bryan Poerwoatmodjo


I know, it sounds a bit much of us to declare a day in honor of ourselves, but in our defense, today is our fourth birthday.
And honestly, it both feels like time went by in a flash but also at times it feels longer than four years.

The feeling of excitement we felt that very first day when we decided to start this project and not knowing if we were able to create a website, forum, and an ISO, let alone maintain them. Would we attract people and more importantly, how are we going to pay for the servers and all the other mandatory things we needed?
Questions filled with a little bit of dread were dancing through our heads back then.

Now, four years later, those fears were luckily ungrounded and as you know by now, EndeavourOS took off like its Space shuttle namesake with a wonderful and loving community around it.
Compared to four years ago, the project has evolved rapidly thanks to the valuable feedback and cooperation of that same community.

The part that also succeeded beyond our wildest dreams is you, the ones who make it happen for us to pay our bills and buy our needed hardware. Without your trust, we weren't able to do that and the amount of trust you are showing us often makes it hard for us to express with the right words to properly thank you.
I would also like to show our appreciation to the Open Collective team and especially our fiscal host, Open Collective Europe, for doing such a wonderful job handling our donation flow.

Even though it seems like the project is on a hiatus, I can assure you that we are hard at work for our next major release, Galileo, with some big changes in it. Also, our goal is to make hardware purchases with Linux-specialized hardware companies like Tuxedo computers or like our recent purchase at Slimbook in the future if possible. 
It also goes without saying that we are going to continue our support to Archlinux, Archlinux ARM, and the developers of Yay on a yearly bases.

Earlier I wrote that we cannot find the words to thank you properly, but I almost feel obliged to give it a go, so here goes.
We are immensely grateful for the (continuous) support you have shown us over the past four years. That support brought us where we are today, a distro with a wonderful community as its key feature.
And don't worry, this isn't the end because Endeavour still has paths and realms to explore and we are honored to continue that journey with you as our trusted partners by our side.

Happy Endeavour Day everyone!!

With love,

Bryan, Dalto, Joe, Manuel, Pudge, and Sradjoker.

joekamprad

Posted on July 15, 2023

There is a lot going on in the making indeed!
KDE ISO is looking fantastic already.. and we are on track getting it ready in the near future.