Serpent OS Arrives with a New Alpha Release
After months of silence, Ikey Doherty has released a new alpha for his Serpent OS.
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."
The short-term goals of Serpent OS include offline rollbacks, versioned repositories, improved documentation, enabling IPC in Moss, and improvements in Lichen (the installer).
The latest alpha version includes several fixes and improvements, such as support for Gnome fractional scaling, a pre-built icon theme cache, fixes for AMDGPU initialization, and much more.
You can read the official statement and download the latest alpha from the Serpent OS site.
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