Initial Performance Testing
Monday, August 02, 2021 in Blog
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With further progress on boulder, we can now build native stone packages with some easy tweaks such as profile guided optimizations (PGO) and link time optimizations (LTO). That means we can take a first look at what the performance of the first cut …
Boulder Keeps On Rolling
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 in Blog
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Squirrelling away in the background has been some great changes to bring boulder closer to its full potential. Here’s a quick recap of some of the more important ones. Key Changes to Boulder Fixed a path issue that prevented manifests from …
Let There Be Databases
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 in Blog
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We haven’t been too great on sharing progress lately, so welcome to an overdue update on timelines, progress, and database related shmexiness. OK, so you may remember moss-format, our module for reading and writing moss binary archives. It …
Moss Unlocked
Saturday, March 20, 2021 in Blog
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Well, it’s not all doom and gloom these days. We’ve actually made some significant progress in the last few days, so it seems a good time to share a progress update. moss can now extract Oh yeah, that totally happened. So, we can now …
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 …