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.

Well, it didn’t take us that long, really … Our technical preview, prealpha0, is now available for testing! Head to our download page to grab serpent-os-prealpha-0.iso now!

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The end of February update from Serpent OS brings several exciting developments. Firstly, the packaging build tool, boulder, has been upgraded with Rust integration, allowing for more efficient deployment and use of async features. Triggers have been integrated into the moss package manager, facilitating actions during package management operations. In pursuit of a stateless philosophy, Serpent OS now utilizes systemd mechanisms for managing system users, simplifying account cleanup. The GNOME 45 Desktop has been packaged successfully, alongside ongoing work on tooling and recipe organization. Additionally, the team has performed a rebootstrap using updated tool versions. Plans include releasing a pre-alpha image for testing and focusing on bare-metal functionality in the future. Future updates will cover further enhancements to moss and progress on bare-metal testing.

Initial GNOME Desktop + Sway demonstrated in a VM. Performance isn't great right now, early days =)

Disclaimer: Don't actually login to a desktop as root

This is a progress log of the effort to rewrite moss (Serpent OS package manager) to rustlang 🦀.