The developers of the Serpent OS distribution announced the renaming of the project to AerynOS and are conducting a rebranding. They plan to complete the migration of the infrastructure to the new name by March 17. It is noted that when the project was founded, the name Serpent OS was chosen hastily, without considering that the word 'serpent' has negative connotations for some people (such as the tempting snake or a vengeful person). The developers have received many complaints about the unfortunate name choice, so they decided to take this opportunity, while the project is still in the alpha testing stage, to change the name.
The Serpent OS project is presented as the next stage in the evolution of Linux distributions. Development is being carried out by the old team of developers from the Solus distribution, including Ikey Doherty, the creator of Solus, and Joshua Strobl, a key developer of the Budgie desktop environment. The distribution uses its own package manager, moss, with its own package format, Stone, and tools for managing the system state. To save disk space when storing multiple versions of packages, deduplication based on hard links is applied.
Updates are performed in an atomic mode, replacing the contents of the /usr partition. In case of a failure during the installation of an update, the system rolls back to the previous working state. With the exception of the kernel and some system components, changes are applied on the fly, without requiring a reboot. Most packages, including the Linux kernel, are built using the Clang compiler. The project is also developing the Lichen installer, the boulder build system, control panel summit, the blsforme boot manager, and the moss-container system.
Source: opennet.ru
