It’s that time of month again, and we have some details to share with you on boot management, as well as plans for real installs landing in May. Additionally, plans for “deferred updates” via mandatory reboots have been dropped!| Serpent OS
Despite a brief excursion out of the country for a first-in-a-lifetime holiday, I’m happily back at the desk to bring you up to date with the latest goings in Serpent OS. TLDR: Loads of awesome, baremetal is enabled, ISO cycle in next couple of weeks. Tooling Improvements OK, we all know you want to know about the baremetal stuff, but c’mon, check out this changeset! Boulder We’re officially at a point where the Rust boulder implementation has become our “blessed” build tool.| Serpent OS
This update came a little later in the month, as we’ve got a lot of exciting news to share. Everything from boulder in Rust, to the GNOME 45 Desktop complete with moss triggers built atop a rebootstrapped toolchain. Rusty Boulder We’re pleased to announce that over the course of this weekend, once testing has completed we’ll deploy the latest version of boulder, our packaging build tool. This has been given the Rust treatment, directly sharing the codebase with moss.| Serpent OS
Allow me to start this post by stating something very important to me: I absolutely love the D programming language, along with the expressivity and creative freedom it brings. Therefore please do not interpret this post as an assassination piece. For a number of months now the Serpent OS project has stood rather still. While this could naively be attributed to our shared plans with Solus - a deeper, technical issue is to be acredited.| Serpent OS
We had intended to get a blog post out a little bit quicker, but the last month has been extremely action packed. However, it has paid off immensely. As our friends at Solus recently announced it is time to embark on a new voyage.| Serpent OS
Enough of this “2 years” nonsense. We’re finally ready for lift off. It is with immense pleasure we can finally announce that Serpent OS has transitioned from a promise to a deliverable. Bye bye, phantomware! We exist As mentioned, we spent 2 years working on tooling and process. That’s .. well. Kinda dull, honestly. You’re not here for the tooling, you’re here for the OS. To that end I made a decision to accelerate development of the actual Linux distro - and shift development of...| Serpent OS
Well - we’ve got some big news! The past few weeks have been an incredibly busy time for us, and we’ve hit some major milestones.| Serpent OS
Since the last post, I’ve pivoted to full time work on Serpent OS, which is made all the more possible thanks to everyone supporting us via OpenCollective <3. We’ve been working towards establishing an online infrastructure to support the automation of package builds, while revisiting some core components.| Serpent OS
Hot damn we’ve been busy lately. No, really. The latest development cycle saw us focus exclusively on boulder, our build tooling. As of today it features a proof of concept boulder new subcommand for the automatic generation of packaging templates from an upstream source (i.e. tarball).| Serpent OS
Burning question - how long before we can use Serpent OS on our development systems? It’s a fair question - and one that requires context to answer. Let’s start our new monthly update cycle with a recap of progress so far. Introducing tarkah We’d like to extend a huge official welcome, and thank you, to newest team member Cory Forsstrom (aka tarkah)! Firstly, a quote from Cory: I’ve been a long time Solus user and was very excited about what serpent os was doing.| Serpent OS