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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.

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.

  • @[email protected]
    2•4 hours ago

    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
      1•3 hours ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 hours ago

        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
          1•2 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
    11•10 hours ago

    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
      12•9 hours ago

      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

    • @[email protected]
      6•10 hours ago

      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.

          • @[email protected]
            3•8 hours 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.