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Posts like this would much benefit from a terse statement of context.

I've been waiting a long time for us to explore the moon.

I haven't been waiting for an Arch distro to release... whatever this is.

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Agreed, I was wondering what an old Eclipse IDE version (Ganymede) was something people were waiting for?

I also clicked through a few times trying to get a clear description of what this is with no success.

"Start your Endeavour with a lightweight Arch-based, terminal centric system ready to personalise and a stellar community at your side"

- the front page of the site

Rephrasing, Endeavour is something that is started with a terminal system based on Arch.

I know that's a cheesy way to say it's an Arch distro but I hope you notice how poor the phrasing is for someone trying to understand what they've been linked to.

The multiple meanings of many of the words in this sentence make it really poor at communicating what the site is about. "Endeavour" (with a capital 'E') is a proper name I associate with a space shuttle, and 'stellar' can mean 'having to do with stars'. So a first read for me leads to the conclusion that this site has something to do with space flight. And 'system' could mean almost anything. Maybe this site will let me personalize my own star system? All I can take away is that I'm not sure what this is, but clearly I'm not the target audience. Which I'm fine with.....

I was confused myself, if only because when I saw Ganymede my first thought was the Eclipse release back in 2008.

I know I'm young enough to be too young to complain about getting old, but I still feel like I'm getting old every so often.

I thought this too. But if there was a probe sent out to Ganymede wouldn't we have arrived at it? If Ganymede (the moon) is arriving at Earth we have a whole other set of problems.

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