This sounds so promising! I love the work Ikey's doing here but sadly he's way too fickle for me to trust him as the sole dev. Until a sizeable dev team is in place I don't know if I want to run this baremetal as my daily driver.
AerynOS, like Clear Linux and Solus, is fascinating.
Now that AerynOS is in alpha, I plan to install it on my evaluation laptop alongside Solus and Bluefin. Not as a daily driver, obviously (LMDE 6, as traditional an architecture as you can get, installed on another computer, for that), but because Solus is planning to rebase on AerynOS and because Bluefin (a fork of Silverblue by the team responsible for Bazzite) looks like a promising, albeit more traditional, approach to stability.
I don't know whether Aeryn will go anywhere -- Solus has languished because of internal difficulties after Doherty and Strobl left the project, and Clear Linux no longer focuses on the desktop user market segment -- but I'm interested in where Doherty is taking AerynOS. Not that I'll reap the benefits -- I'm 78 -- but I'm interested.
I really like the idea as well but I question some of the technical choices here. It sounds like they're reinventing a lot of stuff on their own like the composefs alternative. That's not a small task. I question how long that will be viable for.
thisnameisused@reddit
While not exactly the same, NixOS already exists…
mmstick@reddit
And there are many aspects that could be significantly improved.
thisnameisused@reddit
I agree
nickik@reddit
So? Does only one distro with a 'normal' packaging system exist? Should there only be 1?
thisnameisused@reddit
No. Just mentioning to say that OS as Infrastructure is not a new novel concept was all. Options are welcome always :-)
XLNBot@reddit
Wait, is this Serpent OS with a new name?
XLNBot@reddit
Yup it's Serpent OS. I've been following it for a while and it is a great and exciting project. Can't wait to see it grow
sand_nagger@reddit
open source was a mistake
Strange_Quail946@reddit
This sounds so promising! I love the work Ikey's doing here but sadly he's way too fickle for me to trust him as the sole dev. Until a sizeable dev team is in place I don't know if I want to run this baremetal as my daily driver.
Salander27@reddit
There are multiple veteran maintainers involved as well, including two of the most prolific contributors from Solus.
tomscharbach@reddit
AerynOS, like Clear Linux and Solus, is fascinating.
Now that AerynOS is in alpha, I plan to install it on my evaluation laptop alongside Solus and Bluefin. Not as a daily driver, obviously (LMDE 6, as traditional an architecture as you can get, installed on another computer, for that), but because Solus is planning to rebase on AerynOS and because Bluefin (a fork of Silverblue by the team responsible for Bazzite) looks like a promising, albeit more traditional, approach to stability.
I don't know whether Aeryn will go anywhere -- Solus has languished because of internal difficulties after Doherty and Strobl left the project, and Clear Linux no longer focuses on the desktop user market segment -- but I'm interested in where Doherty is taking AerynOS. Not that I'll reap the benefits -- I'm 78 -- but I'm interested.
SNThrailkill@reddit
I really like the idea as well but I question some of the technical choices here. It sounds like they're reinventing a lot of stuff on their own like the composefs alternative. That's not a small task. I question how long that will be viable for.
doxx-o-matic@reddit
Interesting read ...