Ko-fi goal reset for April 2025! Join us on our journey to redefine what it is to distribute Linux. #opensource #Funding #linux #AerynOS ko-fi.com/post/Goal-re...

In case you missed it, AerynOS is our new name. Follow and support there =]

New blog: "AerynOS: The OS As Infrastructure" - We're not just another Linux distro. We're redefining how operating systems work with atomic updates, stateless design, and innovative boot management. Read more: aerynos.com/blog/2025/03... #Linux #OpenSource

Hello, #AerynOS! So long, #SerpentOS. Same project, just much, much better. Grab the latest 2025.03 ISO with GNOME 48, HDR support, Linux 6.13.8 and a bunch of updates and polishing. aerynos.com/blog/2025/03...

Pulling off the rebrand while maintaining an upgrade path and not requiring *any* manual intervention, whilst doing so atomically, was quite a challenge. Our next blog post will go into how we pulled off the seamless transition. One key component was os-info: github.com/AerynOS/os-i...

Tada!

excite

Slightly more informal approach to blogging for the moment while we prepare for the 17th.. :) ko-fi.com/post/Update-...

Aww we're growing up :3

From the artist formerly known as... well. Us. :))

Quick status update :) github.com/orgs/AerynOS...

Update: website ports now underway, Matrix space more fleshed out, temporary logo created. Awaiting some replies to enquiries re email and cdn. Package updates still flowing to old domain, thus no interruptions. Key repos moved on github.

Today we have Ikey Doherty of the @serpentos.bsky.social project, we talk about some of his history with distros, the technical benefits of SerpentOS, and much much more #Linux #Podcast Video Release: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HHL... Audio Release: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tec...

Preview of some changes in the pipe.

o/ @aerynos.com !

🌟 Let's evolve this OS After years of development, we're evolving with a new name that better reflects our mission to build a modern, technically sound Linux distribution. Official transition: March 17th, 2025 🍀 serpentos.com/blog/2025/02...

Ok folks sync went in last night to fix early loading of nvidia drivers which should fix "black screen on boot" for those who had no luck with them before :)

🚀 Big news from Serpent OS: State of the Project 2025 • Alpha2 coming soon with improved installer • Seeking community support & key contributors • Technical roadmap revealed: versioned repos, immutable OS features & more serpentos.com/blog/2025/02...

Ok that blog post will be coming today, explaining a few things like time management, planned deliverables etc. Importantly; ways you can all help and get involved. Also making our position as a community project concrete. :)) Tldr building blocks approach.

Oh hello whassis #fourthstateofserpentmatters github.com/serpent-os/t...

Updated current webpage with all fiscal-support options. New streamlined site in the works based on astro. serpentos.com/sponsor/

There's going to be a delay in development as tl;dr broke and gotta pay bills. Had of course hoped to be further ahead by this point but such is life.

nothing to see here

Had an absolute blast chatting with @brodierobertson.xyz last night! You'll be able to watch / listen in the next couple of weeks PS the microphone was mostly for show. Forgot to enable the drivers xD

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oh hullo

Following up on the new planner module in the #disksrs partitioning crate, we've added the initial `strategy` module for computing disk use strategies including wiping the disk and starting anew, using free extents, etc.

The latest happenings in #disksrs : Planning APIs for partition manipulation. Kinda useful for an installer. Early days but yes: automatic alignment, undo-stack, data-representation only, tracked changeset for clear communication/etc.

We do like zed here at serpent :))

Our latest project: github.com/serpent-os/d... TLDR: #rust disk, superblock and partitioning library. With support we'll be able to build Rust libblkid to help Rust util-linux happen. And a libparted alternative.

Sometimes when you've worked on a project long enough, useful conventions and patterns emerge. Some times though, this happens. ("Approved in spirit")

Hot on the heels of.. well pretty much everything we've done lately ... XD Shown here is a PoC *rust* packagekitd plugin (libpk_backend_moss.so) using our privileged_ipc crate to talk to a helper process (spawned on demand). TLDR moss will expose an IPC API. Data shown is mock.

Working on packagekit integration for moss using an out of tree plugin. Right now just emulating the dataset but hey, it's an actual Rust `.so` built out of tree and talking happily to packagekitd.

OK, the IPC prototype now works, also allowing pkexec usage w/ socket passing. More on this soon, and how it will facilitate integration and improvements to moss, lichen, etc.

Serpent OS: ESP/Boot Recovery Demo youtu.be/EXtnLOQ6KOc #opensource #linux #YearOfTheSnake

Oh my dudes what an amazingly busy few days. More to share with you, but primarily this: we've built a small crate letting us pkexec a backend and pass it a bound (unix) socket for IPC. This will allow lichen (installer) to go GUI. :3

ooh whassis

Remember how less than a week ago we were all like "hey we're gonna do offline rollbacks" and folks were all "you're *exploring* ...." :P Hey look, offline rollbacks! serpentos.com/blog/2025/01... #opensource #serpentos #linux #distro

Rollback mechanism test 1.. :)) youtu.be/Uady20uvNv0

Other folks are seeing the new year in with alcohol and jubilation. We got cups to print a test page :3

Ending the year, lets look forward to 2025: Goals, funding, vision: serpentos.com/blog/2024/12... #serpentos #opensource #atomic #linux #rust #innovation

Some fixes came in last night's sync to start getting our printing working. OK it's a silly thing that should "just work". Will do soon. Discovery of driverless printers works, lpadmin group yeeted into history, and boulder fixed for sysusers triggers so that chgrp works in cups build. Nearly there

Updated Serpent OS Alpha Brings Few Fixes To This Original Linux Distribution - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Serpent-OS-Alpha-Update

We're moving to Kent to farm cabbages.

Two alpha ISOs in one year?? We're getting alright at this malarkey, lads. serpentos.com/blog/2024/12... #serpentos #linux #opensource #rusty #wowness #omghashtagabuse #plsstop #nou #fineilldownloaditthen #goodnowistop

We've got the ISO working with etcher now per your requests =)

Last night we landed the very rough beginnings of the new `moss boot` family of commands. For now we have `moss boot status` allowing you to introspect your boot configuration (dynamic probing) - and we'll augment this soon with more options and cmdline snippet handling =)

Serpent OS is an intriguing distro to look forward to in 2025!

Later today we'll start pushing some updates out, and we're planning a mini refresh of the 0.24.5 iso to address issues booting on some systems with ventoy & etcher. Also affecting folks with local lvm and/or luks2. Tldr ikey made a booboo, will fix ASAP ❤️

Happy holidays all. Hope you're enjoying a relaxing break. Our pace will resume very soon =]