Optimising Package Distribution
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 in Blog
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Getting updates as fast as possible to users has made deltas a popular and sought after feature for distributing packages. Over the last couple of days, I’ve been investigating various techniques we can look at to support deltas in moss. …
Moss Format: Read Write Support
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 in Blog
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It’s been 8 days since our last blogpost and a lot of development work has happened in that time. Specifically, we’ve completely reworked the internals of the moss-format module to support read/write operations.. Which means installation …
Unlocking Moss
Tuesday, February 09, 2021 in Blog
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Wait, what? Another blog post? In the same WEEK? Yeah totally doing that now. So, this is just another devlog update but there have been some interesting updates that we’d like to share. LDC present in the bootstrap Thanks to some awesome work …
Cleanups Complete
Monday, February 08, 2021 in Blog
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Well, we’re officially back to working around the clock. After spending some time optimising my workflow, I’ve been busy getting the entire codebase cleaned up, so we can begin working towards an MVP. Codebase hygiene Since Friday, …
Build System Functional
Sunday, October 11, 2020 in Blog
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Wow, has it been a hectic few weeks, and it definitely shows: last time we blogged it was about re-bootstrapping with glibc. Feels like ancient news already! So, what’s new in the world of Serpent OS? Apart from yours truly now being proud …
Results Of The Experiment
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 in Blog
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It seems like only yesterday we announced to the world a Great Experiment. It was in fact 2 months ago, and a whole lot of work has happened since that point. A few take-homes are immediately clear, the primary one being the need to be a …
Source Format Defined
Monday, September 21, 2020 in Blog
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Following quickly on the heels of yesterday’s announcement that the binary format has been defined, we’ve now implemented the initial version of our source format. The source format provides metadata on a package along with instructions …
Moss Format Defined
Sunday, September 20, 2020 in Blog
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The core team have been hard at work lately implementing the Moss package manager. We now have an initial version of the binary format that we’re happy with, so we thought we’d share a progress update with you. Explaining the format …
Defining Moss
Thursday, September 10, 2020 in Blog
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Over the past few weeks, throughout the entire bootstrap process, we’ve been deliberating on what our package manager is going to look like. We now have a very solid idea on what that’ll be, so it’s time for a blog post to share …
Stage3 Complete
Monday, September 07, 2020 in Blog
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Another week, another milestone completed. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve completed the initial Stage3 bootstrap. While we have some parallel works to complete for Stage 4, we can now begin to work on the exciting pieces! …