Serpent OS is facing funding challenges but development continues.
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L [email protected] shared this topic
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This actually looks like something really interesting, but it doesn’t say whether it’s based on anything, only “rolling release”. Is this immutable Arch?
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I'm not sure myself, but it sounds like something entirely new, as in not-Fedora, not-Arch, not-Debian, etc.
It's really hard to tell from the About page, but whatever it is, it sounds very ambitious, and maybe the lead dev is overextended.
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Serpent OS is an independent distribution written from scratch by Ikey Doherty, which means that it’s not based on an existing GNU/Linux distribution.
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It took me awhile to find the info. I looked through their documentation pages hoping they would give me a clue, nada. I googled it and had to reword it 3x and then go through a couple articles. Would have been nice if they'd just put it on the about page.
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I'm a long time Solus user and am very happy.
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The lead developer, Ikey, has created two distributions before and a desktop environment. He gets far in a rather short amount of time and catches a lot of attention then loses interest and vanishes. While he is a very skilled developer, I wouldn't personally want to be invested in anything he creates out of fear that the pattern repeats.
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I mean as long as a license is open source this is sorta a good thing though. If it has enough merit folks will be bound to fork it.
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Feels like he'd be better served as a UI/UX consultant for some of the bigger distros, have impact with more staying power
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Same. Been using Solus for 8 years. Really no issues.
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Funny how Budgie isn’t a choice as DE.
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Its one of the most interesting distribution projects in the last 5 years? So if you are interested in it, check if you have some spare coins and support them.
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Why? Solus is still going strong, so is budgie?
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https://github.com/orgs/serpent-os/discussions/31 you can apply to help with the project here
