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🚀 Blazing Fast System Management

Whether you're using Linux for home or work, we've got you covered. Don't wait around for old package managers or bundles: turbocharge your installations and containers with moss and Serpent OS.

Serpent OS is an x86_64-v2+ (v3+ coming soon) Linux distribution built around the LLVM toolchain and our vision of how Linux should be distributed, using our next-generation content-addressable package manager, fully stateless design and modern approach to deployment. Our ideals and practices are founded on 20+ years of distribution engineering experience.

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Serpent OS is in active, heavy development

We welcome all contributions at this stage of our development, as we transition from prototypes to deliverables, especially with our transition to Rust. With the integration of system triggers nearing, we'll begin to publish frequent desktop ISOs and OCI images for dog-fooding purposes.

âš› Atomic transactions

Every package management operation creates an entirely self contained transaction, offering rollbacks to earlier points in time as well as ensuring new updates are safe to apply. Unlike other "A/B" transaction systems, moss can make the new system root available immediately.

âš¡ Ridiculously fast

We leverage the fastest technologies and techniques to provide ridiculously fast package management.

  • xxHash for content addressable hashes. Zip!
  • Zstandard for package compression, kernel modules, firmware, etc.
  • Upcoming: Blake3 for verification!

🔨 Superpowered packaging

Our simple yet powerful stone.yml format makes it a breeze to create packages for Serpent OS. Whip them through boulder, our container-based build-tool, and have binary packages in no time.

No steep learning curve, just some YAML and an extremely intelligent package build system capable of automatically splitting packages into the correct subpackages and creating their dependencies. Heck, we can even generate a recipe from an upstream release! 😲

🔒 Safer

  • 🦀 Core tooling written in Rust, others being actively ported. Memory safe, and extremely fast execution.
  • âš  Self-contained static builds of essential system tools (musl+static) - even glibc can be recovered.