The developers of the distribution of Serpent OS announced the renaming of the project to aerynos and rebranding. The migration to the new name will be completed on March 17. The decision to change the name was made due to complaints about the negative connotation of the word “serpent” and the perception by some as being associated with snakes or vengeful individuals.
Aerynos, previously Serpent OS, is positioned as the next evolution in Linux distributions. Developed by the team behind Solus, including Aiki Dorty and Joshua Strobl, Aerynos utilizes its own package manager moss and package format Stone. Deduplication based on hard links is used to save disk space when storing multiple versions of packages.
Updates in Aerynos are made in atomic mode with the replacement of the /USR section. In the event of installation failure, the system can roll back to the previous working state. Changes, excluding the kernel and some system components, can be applied without rebooting. Most packages are compiled using the Clang compiler. The project also includes the development of the installer lichen, assembly system BOULDER, control panel summit, download manager Blsforme, and containers system moss-container.