Coincidentally after writing this morning wondering about what’s going on with AerynOS (formerly known as Serpent OS), contributors “NomadicCore” and “Ermo” have issued a new project update outlining what’s been going on the past few months.
While there hasn’t been much external communication out of the project and project leader Ikey Doherty remains absent, there has been a lot happening. AerynOS tooling has been converted from the D programming language to now being written in Rust. AerynOS has also rebuilt every recipe in the package repository, a content delivery network (CDN) in place to speed-up package installation and ISO downloads, and a plethora of software updates in the package repositories.
The project moved away from D language after finding instability in their tooling earlier this year. As other code was already being transitioned to Rust, they decided to stop further development of D language based infrastructure and converge all on Rust.
Among the recent software updates to AerynOS have included Linux 6.14, LLVM 20.1, GCC 15.1.1, Rust 1.88, Mesa 25.1, GNOME 48.2, COSMIC 1.0 Alpha 7, Sway 1.11, Wine 10.8, and a wide variety of other package updates.
More details on the recent AerynOS happenings via the AerynOS blog.
