Serpent OS has been driving forward with big improvements and a lot of investments made into its build infrastructure and tooling as opposed to being just a Ubuntu / Debian / Fedora re-spin as so many Linux distributions are these days. It was a year ago Serpent OS published its first ISO ahead of Christmas.
Serpent OS shows off their "moss" system package tool written in Rust.
This year the new build infrastructure launched , it was decided Solus Linux would forge a new direction with Serpent OS , wrote more code in D and Rust , and other improvements made for this growing Linux distribution.
In the EOY2023 Serpent OS summary written by Ikey Doherty and Rune Morling, it largely focuses on their continued Rust-based infrastructure. Serpent OS developers have been pleased with their Rust adoption, their Rust-based moss system package tool is now much better than its predecessor, and more. Their "TLDR" on the immediate future includes:
- Rust ports are coming along fantastically
- moss has been replaced
- still making use of existing tools and infrastructure to build the OS
- actually building the fully bootstrapped, self-contained OS, built on libc++, clang, glibc, etc.
- actively pushing updates to binary repository with fully automated pipeline
- new stuff is blazing fast
The Serpent OS plans for their live ISO are to produce a GNOME Shell based stack, the Firefox browser, GNOME Console as the likely terminal of choice, Flatpak package support, and more. Serpent OS isn't planning to create "a general purpose home-use distribution" but that's where Solus Linux and others can come into play.
Learn more about the latest Serpent OS work via SerpentOS.com .