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Serpent OS is facing funding challenges but development continues. (serpentos.com)

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cross-posted from: https://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 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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?

[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] tgrowl@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks!

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

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.