Serpent OS is an in-development independent Linux distro started in 2020 by [[Ikey Doherty]]. - [Website](https://serpentos.com/) # Notability It has some really good ideas and if it is not abandoned by its founder then it could turn into something great. ```cardlink url: https://serpentos.com/moss title: "System Management Tool For Serpent OS | Serpent OS" host: www.serpentos.com ``` # History ## 2020 In 2020 [[Ikey Doherty]] introduced Serpent OS. ```cardlink url: https://frontpagelinux.com/news/serpent-os-a-truly-modern-linux-distribution/ title: "Serpent OS: A Truly Modern Linux Distribution - Front Page Linux" description: "Not everyone in the Linux community has heard of Ikey Doherty. Ikey is an extremely talented programmer from the Republic of Ireland that has done some great work on Linux distributions in the past. Ikey began the Evolve OS project in 2013 as well as his new desktop environment that…" host: frontpagelinux.com favicon: https://frontpagelinux.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-fpl-logomark-favicon-2-32x32.png image: https://frontpagelinux.com/wp-content/uploads/serpent-os-announced.jpg ``` ## 2022-2023 Between December 2022 and March 2023 there was radio silence from official Serpent channels. In April 2023 it was proposed to change [[Solus]] to be based off of Serpent. Serpent is not stable enough to support Solus at the time of announcement. I can hope for the best. ```cardlink url: https://www.serpentos.com/blog/2023/04/21/snakes-on-a-boat/ title: "Snakes On A Boat | Serpent OS" host: www.serpentos.com ``` ## 2024 In December the official blog announced that they've entered the "alpha" stage of development. There is a proper GUI ISO now. Bizarrely, the ISO uses [[Gnome Desktop]], despite much of the team working on [[Budgie Desktop]] - including most of them also doing work on [[Solus]] which ships [[Budgie Desktop]] by default. ## 2025 On February 6th [[Ikey Doherty]] announced that he lost his job and project funding was a major concern moving forward. Despite this there was progress and an announcement that a new tool was using [[KDL]] for configuration. He also announced the idea of "versioned repositories", likely inspired by a recent snafu while updating [[Solus]] that lead to having to maintain multiple repos. On Valentine's Day 2025, their blog announced that they were changing the name from "Serpent OS" to "AerynOS" because people complained. - https://github.com/AerynOS [[Solus]] thankfully has not been ported to [[Serpent OS]] as of [[2025-02-15]]. # References - https://linuxiac.com/serpent-os-rebrands-as-aerynos/ - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Serpent-OS-To-AerynOS