Posts in 2020
  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • 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! …

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  • Looking Stage4 In The Eye

    Friday, August 28, 2020 in Blog

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    Well, we’ve made an awful lot of progress in these last few days. It wasn’t that long ago that we introduced some of the new projects required to get stage3 off the ground. libc-support Our libc-support project has been growing, thanks …

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  • Stage 3 Progress

    Thursday, August 20, 2020 in Blog

    Well, it’s been a few days since we last spoke, so now it’s time for a quick roundup. Long story short, we’re approaching the end of the stage3 bootstrap. In an effort to simplify our bootstrap process, we dropped the …

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  • Stage2 Complete

    Sunday, August 16, 2020 in Blog

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    Just in case you thought we were sleeping behind the wheel, we’ve got another blogpost for your viewing pleasure. In a nutshell, we completed stage2 bootstrap. In order to simplify life, we greatly reduced the size of the stage2 build …

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  • Stage1 Complete

    Saturday, August 08, 2020 in Blog

    Short and sweet, stage1 of the bootstrap is complete. As I indicated on the Lispy Snake blog, I’m still in the process of settling into new accommodation. This is going well, but still awaiting proper broadband connectivity. Work has begun, …

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  • Welcome: Project Manager

    Tuesday, July 07, 2020 in Blog

    The Serpent OS team wishes to formally welcome Aydemir Ulaş Şahin to the core team in the primary capacity of Project Manager. Aydemir will help us to coordinate and manage the project goals and infrastructure, being responsible for certain …

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  • Welcome Peter

    Monday, July 06, 2020 in Blog

    Recently we did reveal on Twitter that long time friend and colleague-of-many-projects, Peter O’Connor, has formally joined the core team for Serpent OS. Many of you know him as sunnyflunk. He will be working on core toolchain optimisations, …

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