The release of AerynOS 2025.03 has been announced, which is the first update following the renaming of the Serpent OS project. The distribution uses its own package manager and an atomic system update model. Development is being carried out by the original team of developers from the Solus distribution, which includes Ikey Doherty — the creator of Solus, and Joshua Strobl — the key developer of the Budgie desktop environment. The builds are created for the x86_64-v2 architecture and come with the GNOME desktop. Among the new package versions involved are Linux kernel 6.13.8, GNOME 48.0, Mesa 25.0.2, Firefox 136.0.2, Vulkan SDK 1.4.309.0, and LLVM 19.1.7.
The distribution uses the moss package manager with its own Stone package format and system state management tools. To save disk space when storing multiple package versions, deduplication is applied based on hard links. Updates are performed in atomic mode, replacing the contents of the /usr partition. In the event of a failure during the update installation, the system rolls back to the previous working state.
Most packages, including the Linux kernel, are compiled using the Clang compiler. With the exception of the kernel and some system components, changes are applied on the fly without the need for rebooting. 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
