- cross-posted to:
- serpentos@lemm.ee
- cross-posted to:
- serpentos@lemm.ee
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54845927
TL;DR: Serpent OS is facing funding challenges but development continues. Alpha2 is coming soon with an improved installer. We’re seeking community support through donations and volunteers for key roles. Our technical roadmap includes versioned repositories, immutable OS features, and improved package management workflows. We had a flurry of activity around the Christmas period, including our first alpha release as well as enabling offline rollbacks early in January. We’re actively working on alpha2, but we also need to talk about the elephant in the room.
The lead developer, Ikey, has created two distributions before and a desktop environment. He gets far in a rather short amount of time and catches a lot of attention then loses interest and vanishes. While he is a very skilled developer, I wouldn’t personally want to be invested in anything he creates out of fear that the pattern repeats.
I mean as long as a license is open source this is sorta a good thing though. If it has enough merit folks will be bound to fork it.
Feels like he’d be better served as a UI/UX consultant for some of the bigger distros, have impact with more staying power
well maybe if he would but like at least whatever he feels like doing can possibly provide value