Posts in 2025
  • Evolve This OS

    Friday, February 14, 2025 in Blog

    A long overdue, and highly requested update today. We’re finally rebranding the project! 🤔 Why the change? The “Serpent OS” name was a quickly chosen name that stuck. Unfortunately “serpents” are often associated with …

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  • Hello 2025

    Thursday, February 06, 2025 in Blog

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    TL;DR: Serpent OS is facing funding challenges but development continues. Alpha2 is coming soon with an improved installer. We’re seeking community support through donations and volunteers for key roles. Our technical roadmap includes versioned …

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  • Offline Rollbacks Enabled

    Saturday, January 04, 2025 in Blog

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    If a picture tells a thousand words… well then this video .. Yknow what, sod it. Here’s a video of the offline rollback support in action, as tested in a newly installed VM using xfs for the root filesystem. We jokingly refer to this as …

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Posts in 2024
  • Investing in the Future

    Tuesday, December 31, 2024 in Blog

    Here we are, at the end of 2024, and what a year it’s been! We’ve made significant progress on Serpent OS, and we’re excited to share some of the highlights with you. Attained Alpha Virtually 5 years in the making, we recently …

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  • Alpha Refresh Available

    Sunday, December 29, 2024 in Blog

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    In response to feedback from the community, we’re issuing a refresh of the Alpha 1 release, 0.24.6. This refresh includes a number of key updates and improvements, including: Now works with etcher Fractional scaling enabled by default Prebuild …

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  • Serpent OS Enters Alpha

    Monday, December 23, 2024 in Blog

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    Following a successful prealpha phase, we’re excited to announce that Serpent OS has now entered the alpha stage of development. This milestone marks a significant step forward in the project’s journey. While the usual disclaimers apply, …

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  • Serpent OS Prealpha0 Released

    Thursday, August 01, 2024 in Blog

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    Well, it didn’t take us that long, really … Our technical preview, prealpha0, is now available for testing! Head to our download page to grab serpent-os-prealpha-0.iso now! This is a super rough version of Serpent OS that is capable of …

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  • Calm Before The Storm

    Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in Blog

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    It’s that time of month again, and we have some details to share with you on boot management, as well as plans for real installs landing in May. Additionally, plans for “deferred updates” via mandatory reboots have been dropped! …

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  • The March Of Progress

    Sunday, March 31, 2024 in Blog

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    Despite a brief excursion out of the country for a first-in-a-lifetime holiday, I’m happily back at the desk to bring you up to date with the latest goings in Serpent OS. TLDR: Loads of awesome, baremetal is enabled, ISO cycle in next couple of …

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  • End of February Update

    Thursday, February 29, 2024 in Blog

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    This update came a little later in the month, as we’ve got a lot of exciting news to share. Everything from boulder in Rust, to the GNOME 45 Desktop complete with moss triggers built atop a rebootstrapped toolchain. Rusty Boulder We’re …

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