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Keep up to date with the latest development updates to Serpent OS
We've Joined OpenCollective
The eagle eyed among you may have noticed we’ve been making a concerted effort lately to get our messaging spot on, in order to build a sustainable value-led future for Serpent OS. In our efforts to build a 100% transparent organisation around the project, we’ve now been accepted by the Open Source Collective 501(c)(6) via Open Collective. Our shiny new OpenCollective profile We’ve taken the decision to not build a company around Serpent OS, and instead rely on a centralised approach to contribution + expenses.
Monday, September 14, 2020
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Website Revamp
Over the last few days we’ve been working to refresh the stuffy website design with something much cleaner and inviting. It’s still created using Hugo, but we’ve dropped MDBootstrap in favour for the lighter vanilla Bootstrap option. Refreshed website with core values We’re still working out a few kinks here and there with mobile rendering, but in the mean time please take a look around, and make yourself at home.
Sunday, September 13, 2020
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Defining Moss
Over the past few weeks, throughout the entire bootstrap process, we’ve been deliberating on what our package manager is going to look like. We now have a very solid idea on what that’ll be, so it’s time for a blog post to share with the community. Initial moss prototype CLI Old, but new The team has been very clear in wanting a traditional package management solution, whereby repositories and packages compose the OS as a whole.
Thursday, September 10, 2020
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Stage3 Complete
Another week, another milestone completed. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve completed the initial Stage3 bootstrap. While we have some parallel works to complete for Stage 4, we can now begin to work on the exciting pieces! We’re now bootstrapped on ARMv8(-a) and x86_64 Complete build-target for x86_64 Announcing Moss Our immediate focus is now to implement our package manager: moss. Currently it only has a trivial CLI and does absolutely nothing.
Monday, September 7, 2020
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