Serpent OS

you can please some people half of the time or half the people some of the time. Either way decisions are made for the longterm benefit of the project for longevity, transparency and the correct ethos.

2025-02-15 10:16:15 GMT

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we've told people since the start of the project it'd be renamed. We've also made it clear in the post the immediate connotations and that there'll be follow ups.

2025-02-15 00:00:48 GMT

o/ @npub1j45…xdpv !

2025-02-14 23:57:09 GMT

🌟 Let's evolve this OS
After years of development, we're evolving with a new name that better reflects our mission to build a modern, technically sound Linux distribution.
Official transition: March 17th, 2025 🍀
https://serpentos.com/blog/2025/02/14/evolve-this-os/

2025-02-09 06:46:07 GMT

Ok folks sync went in last night to fix early loading of nvidia drivers which should fix "black screen on boot" for those who had no luck with them before :)

2025-02-07 11:02:10 GMT

🚀 Big news from Serpent OS: State of the Project 2025
• Alpha2 coming soon with improved installer
• Seeking community support & key contributors
• Technical roadmap revealed: versioned repos, immutable OS features & more
https://serpentos.com/blog/2025/02/06/hello-2025/

2025-02-06 09:43:24 GMT

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thanks ! I'm hopeful a2 iso sorts those issues out. Combination of factors like missing secure boot, uefi only and 3d accel can make life harder. New gui installer will be backed by disks-rs and way more usable.

2025-02-05 22:08:37 GMT

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yes that definitely sounds like an issue xD sure, be happy to !

2025-02-05 18:39:44 GMT

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apologies for the installer experience xD per our recent posts a new pretty option is in development with better disk handling / provisioning. You run into any major issues?

2025-02-05 05:28:38 GMT

Oh hello whassis #fourthstateofserpentmatters
https://github.com/serpent-os/tools/pull/418

2025-02-05 05:20:37 GMT

Ohai @npub1232…cqam ty for the follow. We've been trying to email you for a few months. Maybe time i update my address book? 😆
I promise you, the news of our demise is greatly exaggerated.... xD
We're just being very blunt/honest with folks and managing expectations while illuminating optimal paths. Let us know if you need any details or iso refreshments, our smol community eagerly awaits your impressions/ feedback!

2025-02-05 01:24:18 GMT

Updated current webpage with all fiscal-support options. New streamlined site in the works based on astro.
https://serpentos.com/sponsor/
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2025-02-04 12:47:39 GMT

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would love to have attended but didn't even have the price of a plane ticket :)

2025-02-03 16:56:25 GMT

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there's a queue get in line :P we were begging first xD

2025-02-02 12:09:50 GMT

There's going to be a delay in development as tl;dr broke and gotta pay bills. Had of course hoped to be further ahead by this point but such is life.

2025-01-31 10:45:09 GMT

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feature request mentally logged

2025-01-31 08:57:39 GMT

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who? We nicked the adwaita ones and accounted for them in the readme and licensing ^^

2025-01-31 06:55:36 GMT

nothing to see here
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2025-01-25 09:12:46 GMT

le cough
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2025-01-23 03:27:05 GMT

oh hullo
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2025-01-23 02:53:11 GMT

Following up on the new planner module in the #disksrs partitioning crate, we've added the initial `strategy` module for computing disk use strategies including wiping the disk and starting anew, using free extents, etc.
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2025-01-23 01:05:53 GMT

The latest happenings in #disksrs : Planning APIs for partition manipulation. Kinda useful for an installer.
Early days but yes: automatic alignment, undo-stack, data-representation only, tracked changeset for clear communication/etc.
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2025-01-22 21:26:46 GMT

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whack your requirements up in an issue so we can all collab on what needs to be done

2025-01-21 14:05:33 GMT

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that's part of the intent yeah for premade and oem and honestly just easier installs. Loop back device stuff got added last night:)

2025-01-21 09:51:00 GMT

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early experiments for the installer..
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2025-01-21 09:50:38 GMT

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in time yes, fdisk, lsblkid, blkid, etc

2025-01-21 09:46:40 GMT

Our latest project: https://github.com/serpent-os/disks-rs
TLDR: #rust disk, superblock and partitioning library. With support we'll be able to build Rust libblkid to help Rust util-linux happen. And a libparted alternative.

2025-01-19 08:02:38 GMT

Sometimes when you've worked on a project long enough, useful conventions and patterns emerge.
Some times though, this happens. ("Approved in spirit")
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2025-01-19 07:49:34 GMT

The @npub1lty…4362 folks have released 0.0.29 of #coreutils (ala #rust) ! Absolutely amazing work, we're very grateful because this is the *only* coreutils used in Serpent OS, from build pipeline all the way to the installed OS.
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.0.29
Heading to your installs later today with next sync =)

2025-01-13 10:29:33 GMT

Hot on the heels of.. well pretty much everything we've done lately ... XD
Shown here is a PoC *rust* packagekitd plugin (libpk_backend_moss.so) using our privileged_ipc crate to talk to a helper process (spawned on demand).
TLDR moss will expose an IPC API. Data shown is mock.
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2025-01-12 18:37:27 GMT

Working on packagekit integration for moss using an out of tree plugin. Right now just emulating the dataset but hey, it's an actual Rust `.so` built out of tree and talking happily to packagekitd.
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2025-01-12 11:20:43 GMT

OK, the IPC prototype now works, also allowing pkexec usage w/ socket passing. More on this soon, and how it will facilitate integration and improvements to moss, lichen, etc.
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2025-01-10 13:35:48 GMT

Serpent OS: ESP/Boot Recovery Demo
https://youtu.be/EXtnLOQ6KOc
#opensource #linux #YearOfTheSnake

2025-01-07 11:44:06 GMT

Oh my dudes what an amazingly busy few days. More to share with you, but primarily this: we've built a small crate letting us pkexec a backend and pass it a bound (unix) socket for IPC.
This will allow lichen (installer) to go GUI. :3

2025-01-05 02:55:27 GMT

ooh whassis
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2025-01-04 23:13:00 GMT

Remember how less than a week ago we were all like "hey we're gonna do offline rollbacks" and folks were all "you're *exploring* ...." :P
Hey look, offline rollbacks!
https://serpentos.com/blog/2025/01/04/offline-rollbacks-enabled/
#opensource #serpentos #linux #distro

2025-01-04 10:55:34 GMT

Rollback mechanism test 1.. :)
https://youtu.be/Uady20uvNv0

2025-01-01 12:35:27 GMT

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scanning that one page back in lol

2025-01-01 10:14:32 GMT

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this is a marks and Spencers printer test page

2025-01-01 00:26:57 GMT

Other folks are seeing the new year in with alcohol and jubilation.
We got cups to print a test page :3
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2024-12-31 15:01:44 GMT

Ending the year, lets look forward to 2024: Goals, funding, vision:
https://serpentos.com/blog/2024/12/31/investing-in-the-future/
#serpentos #opensource #atomic #linux #rust #innovation

2024-12-31 12:50:58 GMT

Some fixes came in last night's sync to start getting our printing working. OK it's a silly thing that should "just work". Will do soon. Discovery of driverless printers works, lpadmin group yeeted into history, and boulder fixed for sysusers triggers so that chgrp works in cups build.
Nearly there

2024-12-29 17:31:47 GMT

Two alpha ISOs in one year?? We're getting alright at this malarkey, lads.
https://serpentos.com/blog/2024/12/29/alpha-refresh-available/
#serpentos #linux #opensource #rusty #wowness #omghashtagabuse #plsstop #nou #fineilldownloaditthen #goodnowistop

2024-12-29 07:51:34 GMT

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the people want. We didn't say the people were right xD

2024-12-29 01:01:31 GMT

We've got the ISO working with etcher now per your requests =)
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2024-12-28 11:54:17 GMT

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thanks for being awesome! a few community members are now working on automatic partitioning scripts to help folks get setup while they're waiting for lichen to improve, i'll keep everyone updated on this =)

2024-12-28 11:53:07 GMT

Last night we landed the very rough beginnings of the new `moss boot` family of commands. For now we have `moss boot status` allowing you to introspect your boot configuration (dynamic probing) - and we'll augment this soon with more options and cmdline snippet handling =)
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2024-12-27 14:19:55 GMT

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quite the journey !

2024-12-27 11:46:20 GMT

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need gpt disk. Formatted and tagged esp. Formatted root partition due to a bug

2024-12-26 12:28:22 GMT

Later today we'll start pushing some updates out, and we're planning a mini refresh of the 0.24.5 iso to address issues booting on some systems with ventoy & etcher. Also affecting folks with local lvm and/or luks2.
Tldr ikey made a booboo, will fix ASAP ❤️

2024-12-26 12:25:11 GMT

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and you ! Luckily I'll be able to test on two laptops later now the framework is up and running again

2024-12-26 12:21:11 GMT

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perfect thank you very much! Better we iron out the issues early!

2024-12-26 11:44:20 GMT

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please yeah if that's alright. Wanna ensure it's working for everyone and prioritise getting it working with common tooling like ventoy and etcher. I suspect it's because we're using a direct squashfs without nesting in our LiveOS component

2024-12-26 11:40:34 GMT

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and I assume given you got this far secure boot is disabled.. tell you what bud gimme a day or two while I gather these reports and I'll issue a respin. Deal? Sorry folks are going through this. I imagine it's because we have newer dracut since our last isos

2024-12-26 11:31:30 GMT

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when you check the usb stick in other distros does it actually have the label SERPENTISO ..?

2024-12-26 10:07:30 GMT

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are you even seeing the iso boot menu? Systemd-boot. Try mashing space bar to see if that part even appears.

2024-12-25 01:37:08 GMT

Happy holidays all. Hope you're enjoying a relaxing break. Our pace will resume very soon =]

2024-12-24 12:22:50 GMT

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thanks !!

2024-12-23 11:56:48 GMT

Serpent OS 0.24.5 (Alpha 1) has finally been released!!
https://serpentos.com/blog/2024/12/23/serpent-os-enters-alpha/
The first alpha of our independent #opensource #linux distribution, featuring innovative atomic package management and tons of #rustlang components!

2024-12-22 15:59:04 GMT

All the cool kids have it these days
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2024-12-22 14:38:32 GMT

Last blocker dealt with. New release of moss automatically cleans ESP/xbootldr preventing ENOSPC, and special casing added for empty files to mitigate EMLINK.
Now time for the hard crap: release notes.

2024-12-21 13:10:34 GMT

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happy to package both

2024-12-21 10:14:47 GMT

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it is bad, for my electricity bill

2024-12-21 09:27:53 GMT

For a while we've defaulted to the "Resources" application rather than gnome-system-monitor.
Ain't it pretty?
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2024-12-19 09:56:25 GMT

yup
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2024-12-18 13:18:11 GMT

We've done a ridiculous amount of work in the last few weeks. Everything from thunderbolt enabling to shipping 32bit packages for our own Steam package.
We know it's been a long wait. Glad to say the list has been reduced to only 2 more items.

2024-12-18 12:57:15 GMT

Yep we've been quiet, and with reason. Remember we said we were prepping "the big one" for a release... ?
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2024-11-17 18:45:26 GMT

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xD
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2024-11-17 18:36:42 GMT

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aw man I just got the last one in. Back to work xD

2024-11-16 14:48:15 GMT

We're winding down our X/Twitter, because duh.
In addition to Mastodon we're also over on Bluesky now.
https://bsky.app/profile/serpentos.bsky.social

2024-10-30 22:52:50 GMT

OK, back screaming into action. Backported llvm19 fixes to our llvm18 and got 6.11.5 kernel built and tested on the Framework 13, resplendent with amdgpu.
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2024-08-08 00:05:54 GMT

Just in time for cosmic alpha 1, we got greetd & cosmic-greeter working in Serpent. All packages up to date and things working pretty darn well.
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2024-08-03 09:26:47 GMT

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we're adding a metapackage for it, been keeping talks open with the very cool system76 camp as we want to offer a great representation of their work =)