Solus, a popular Linux distribution, has announced its decision to use Solus 5 technologies from the SerpentOS project. The move is part of the ongoing restructuring of Solus, which includes a shift to a more transparent control model, focused on the community rather than one person.
SerpentOS is a standalone distribution based on its own package manager, Moss, which utilizes an atomic model for system updates. The package manager offers a joint cache for storing multiple versions of packages, reducing disk space usage. SerpentOS is also developing a range of other tools and systems, such as container systems and control panels.
Solus 5 is expected to replace several of its current systems with those from SerpentOS. Solus developers have enlisted the help of the SerpentOS team to raise new infrastructure and update packages. In addition, plans are underway to create a boot image with a GNOME-based environment.
The new features will be implemented while Solus continues to follow its rolling model of package updates, ensuring that relevance is maintained through the installation of updates. The SerpentOS technologies are set to replace Solus’ YPKG3 and SolBuild with BOULDER and AVALANCHE, SOL (Eopkg) with Moss, and Solhub with Summit and GitHub development. Vessel will manage repositories instead of Ferryd.
With the promise of better infrastructure and and the new features, many Solus users are looking forward to what the changes will bring.