Serpent OS is facing funding challenges but development continues. (serpentos.com)
from malfisya@lemm.ee to linux@lemmy.ml on 07 Feb 15:56
https://lemm.ee/post/54853460

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/54845927

TL;DR: Serpent OS is facing funding challenges but development continues. Alpha2 is coming soon with an improved installer. We’re seeking community support through donations and volunteers for key roles. Our technical roadmap includes versioned repositories, immutable OS features, and improved package management workflows. We had a flurry of activity around the Christmas period, including our first alpha release as well as enabling offline rollbacks early in January. We’re actively working on alpha2, but we also need to talk about the elephant in the room.

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gramgan@lemmy.ml on 07 Feb 17:01 next collapse

This actually looks like something really interesting, but it doesn’t say whether it’s based on anything, only “rolling release”. Is this immutable Arch?

Telorand@reddthat.com on 07 Feb 17:06 next collapse

I’m not sure myself, but it sounds like something entirely new, as in not-Fedora, not-Arch, not-Debian, etc.

It’s really hard to tell from the About page, but whatever it is, it sounds very ambitious, and maybe the lead dev is overextended.

Sturgist@lemmy.ca on 07 Feb 18:31 collapse

Serpent OS is an independent distribution written from scratch by Ikey Doherty, which means that it’s not based on an existing GNU/Linux distribution.

From this 9to5Linux article.

Telorand@reddthat.com on 07 Feb 19:25 collapse

Thanks!

Ha! This blind squirrel (me) did manage to find a nut, it seems.

Sturgist@lemmy.ca on 07 Feb 19:34 collapse

It took me awhile to find the info. I looked through their documentation pages hoping they would give me a clue, nada. I googled it and had to reword it 3x and then go through a couple articles. Would have been nice if they’d just put it on the about page.

a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world on 07 Feb 18:27 collapse

SerpentOS is it’s own thing. It’s from the same guy who made Solus which was also it’s own thing.

Look up Ikey Doherty if you want to know more.

From my experience with Solus, I don’t have high hopes for SerpentOS but I’d love to be wrong about that

52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org on 07 Feb 21:18 collapse

I’m a long time Solus user and am very happy.

tgrowl@lemmy.world on 08 Feb 03:48 collapse

Same. Been using Solus for 8 years. Really no issues.

Hector@lemmy.ca on 07 Feb 23:42 next collapse

The lead developer, Ikey, has created two distributions before and a desktop environment. He gets far in a rather short amount of time and catches a lot of attention then loses interest and vanishes. While he is a very skilled developer, I wouldn’t personally want to be invested in anything he creates out of fear that the pattern repeats.

HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com on 08 Feb 00:08 next collapse

I mean as long as a license is open source this is sorta a good thing though. If it has enough merit folks will be bound to fork it.

RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works on 08 Feb 01:22 collapse

Feels like he’d be better served as a UI/UX consultant for some of the bigger distros, have impact with more staying power

HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com on 08 Feb 01:28 collapse

well maybe if he would but like at least whatever he feels like doing can possibly provide value

meldrik@lemmy.wtf on 08 Feb 22:24 next collapse

Funny how Budgie isn’t a choice as DE.

dino@discuss.tchncs.de on 09 Feb 10:42 collapse

Why? Solus is still going strong, so is budgie?

dino@discuss.tchncs.de on 09 Feb 10:41 next collapse

Its one of the most interesting distribution projects in the last 5 years? So if you are interested in it, check if you have some spare coins and support them.

lena@gregtech.eu on 09 Feb 11:40 collapse

github.com/orgs/serpent-os/discussions/31 you can apply to help with the project here