📦 Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs In The Coming Weeks
— @phoronix

「 Serpent OS is tracking the work done by System76 on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop and look forward to offering it within Serpent OS 」

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Serpent-OS-Pre-Alpha-Soon

#SerpentOS #COSMIC #COSMICDE #Rust #Opensource

Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs In The Coming Weeks

Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux distribution project is hoping to be able to ship their pre-Alpha ISOs in a matter of weeks as they continue bringing up the initial desktop experience and getting more of their operating system's build tools into good…

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I looked at the #rust based, #Cosmic #desktop #environment, by #System76. This is branded "alpha" right now, but I'm flabbergasted by the users online, who think that "by summer" that thing will be ready for general use.

News flash, it won't.

It generally takes 2-3 years minimum after the official release for a brand new DE (with a brand new #API & libs) to become truly useful to most people. DEs aren't adopted unless matured. Hamper your expectations, lads.

#cosmicde #linux #foss #opensource