Serpent OS Enters Alpha with GNOME and COSMIC Spins, Powered by Linux 6.12 LTS
Powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, Serpent OS Alpha has two official flavors featuring the latest GNOME 47.2 and COSMIC 1.0 alpha 4 desktop environments. Both editions are supported equally, but the devs recommend using the GNOME edition because the Rust-based COSMIC is not yet mature and it’s subject to frequent potentially breaking changes.
On top of that, System76 announced an updated Pangolin laptop and the LibreOffice 24.8 office suite received a new update with more bug fixes. Below you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for December 22nd, 2024.
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Serial slopper (plagiarism and bots) Fagioli:
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Linux-powered Serpent OS reaches its first major development milestone -- download it now!
The team behind Serpent OS has announced its Linux distro has entered alpha. The operating system, built by industry veterans with decades of experience, is a heavily engineering-led project that seeks to redefine how Linux is distributed. In the team's own words, it "represents the next evolution in Linux distributions". It offers a stateless design and atomic updates, ensuring that system changes either complete fully or roll back seamlessly if issues arise, which should guarantee reliability and stability.
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Linuxiac:
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Serpent OS Reaches Alpha Milestone
Serpent OS has finally transitioned from its pre-alpha phase to the alpha stage of development. Why “finally,” you ask? Well, that’s because this project was first announced back in mid-2020, spearheaded by Ikey Doherty—a name you might recognize from Solus Linux’s not-so-distant past.
After stepping away from Solus, Doherty shifted his focus to this new venture, Serpent OS. Now, after four and a half years of development, the distribution has at long last entered the alpha phase.
For those unfamiliar, Serpent OS is a still-in-development stateless Linux distro targeted mainly at advanced users and developers, leveraging cutting-edge technologies like atomic updates, the LLVM toolchain, and memory-safe components.
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Serpent OS Gets an Alpha Release Right Before 2024 Ends
The Linux ecosystem is a genuinely innovative space, where we have countless distributions. We have the popular ones like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and their derivatives.
On the other hand, we have independent options like NixOS, Gentoo Linux, and Slackware.
A few months ago, we took a look at the pre-alpha release of a new independent distro called Serpent OS that performed quite well for an early build. It is a distro that focuses on being modern, minimal, and developer-friendly with its unique tooling.
As 2024 comes to an end, its developers have introduced an alpha release with a recent announcement that offers many notable refinements.
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Serpent OS Arrives with a New Alpha Release » Linux Magazine
Serpent OS, a community-driven operating system, is a stateless take on Linux that includes atomic updates and a very modern look and feel.
Serpent OS supports NVIDIA GPUs (using the open source kernel modules), can run Steam, includes several Rust-based packages, and offers two different desktop versions: Gnome and COSMIC.
According to the official Serpent OS blog, "Virtually 5 years in the making, we recently attained alpha status. Our tooling and concepts have aligned, allowing us to now rapidly iterate on the core deliverable itself: Serpent OS." The statement continues, "We’ve seen an explosion in cadence, with our tooling enabling us to quickly and easily deliver updates, new packages, and enabling new features."