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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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[–] 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.