Oxidised Moss
Wednesday, September 06, 2023 in Blog
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Allow me to start this post by stating something very important to me: I absolutely love the D programming language, along with the expressivity and creative freedom it brings. Therefore please do not interpret this post as an assassination piece. …
Snakes On A Boat
Friday, April 21, 2023 in Blog
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We had intended to get a blog post out a little bit quicker, but the last month has been extremely action packed. However, it has paid off immensely. As our friends at Solus recently announced it is time to embark on a new voyage. General gist of it …
Infrastructure Launched!
Saturday, March 18, 2023 in Blog
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After many months and much work, our infrastructure is finally online. We’ve had a few restarts, but it’s now running fully online with 2 builders, ready to serve builds around the clock. Firstly, I’d like to apologise for the delay …
Lift Off
Saturday, December 24, 2022 in Blog
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Enough of this “2 years” nonsense. We’re finally ready for lift off. It is with immense pleasure we can finally announce that Serpent OS has transitioned from a promise to a deliverable. Bye bye, phantomware! We exist As mentioned, …
The Big Update
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 in Blog
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Well - we’ve got some big news! The past few weeks have been an incredibly busy time for us, and we’ve hit some major milestones. Funding After much deliberation - we’ve decided to pull out of Open Collective. Among other reasons, …
Infrastructure Update
Sunday, July 10, 2022 in Blog
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Since the last post, I’ve pivoted to full time work on Serpent OS, which is made all the more possible thanks to everyone supporting us via OpenCollective <3. We’ve been working towards establishing an online infrastructure to support …
Packaging Automation, Next Steps
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 in Blog
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Hot damn we’ve been busy lately. No, really. The latest development cycle saw us focus exclusively on boulder, our build tooling. As of today it features a proof of concept boulder new subcommand for the automatic generation of packaging …
A Word From The Founder
Monday, June 06, 2022 in Blog
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Well well, it’s been a long time since I personally wrote a post.. :) So let’s keep this short and sweet, shall we? I’m returning to full time work on Serpent OS. The 6th of July will be my last day at my current employment having …
RELR Brings Smaller Files, More Performance?
Tuesday, April 05, 2022 in Blog
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RELR is an efficient method of storing relative relocations (but is not yet available in glibc upstream). This has a significant reduction on file size often in the vicinity of 5% for libraries and even higher for PIE binaries. We also take a look at …
Making Deltas Great Again! (Part 1)
Friday, February 11, 2022 in Blog
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In Optimising Package Distribution we discussed some early findings for implementing binary deltas in Serpent OS. While discussing the implementation we have found the requirements to be suboptimal for what we were after. We provide a fresh look at …