" Unfortunately “serpents” are often associated with negative connotations, and we’ve had a lot of feedback over the years that the name was off-putting. Let’s be completely honest, it’s not the most inviting name for a project. Who wants to trust a serpent? Generally speaking they’re considered dangerous at best...
...The phonetic “Erin” is a nod to the Irish roots of the project, and of course a home. There are a number of reasons for the name, which will form part of the initial documentation on the new website."

I get it. Erin itself is a pretty cool OS name too. ☘️

    brent

    I don't know... Serpent OS was a very cool name, it was known already, the logo was great. Why renaming? With the previous post about the development slowdown the name changing adds even more doubt about the project success.

        That's what I think too. Serpent OS was catchy. The new name, I don't associate anything with it, and got to look it up everytime how to write it.

        • ikey

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        mountain_mosquito it was thoroughly explained in the blog post. As for the slow down I feel that post was also quite obvious but sadly misunderstood: if folks wanted the pace of development to continue we'd need extra support. Otherwise, common sense, I'd need to get back to work and have less time to work on it.

        Folks would be better off listening less to Linux journalists and hearing what I'm actually saying. I've years of distro engineering experience and they have precisely.. none. They just love propagating crap.

        There are zero "bad signs" just typical FOSS doomsayer stuff. The (planned for 4 years) rebrand has brought new blood in and is enabling the community to be more involved in the visual branding and websites. Currently they're splitting into two sites to keep one side user facing and a technical site on the dev domain for contribution and documentation.

            I listened to the full video and it was very interesting and insightful. As you explained why choices were made, problems arose and solved and your goal of it becoming the "tool-set" for others. Very interesting.

            ikey 🙂 I liked it. That about support. You said it much more clearly here than on the blog.

              ikey

              It is just my opinion but I believe a memorable name and logo are important. They do generate clicks and help the interest grow from there. The blog explains the reason for the name change which I find unconvincing.

              Also, it would be nice to have a more streamlined and simple answer how the distro is different from the other ones. There must be something unique that draws people to check it out, donate money, and contribute. If you scroll through social media sites, blogs, or watch Youtube videos the overall impression is, it's just another distro. As an example, there was a post on reddit about the name change, and after someone asked why would you choose Serpent OS (AerynOS) the answer was it is an atomic distro, followed by the statement, oh so it's like Fedora Silverblue or openSuse Aeon, why do we need yet another one when these are available already.

              There must be something on the first page, or in the first sentence telling people how this distro is unique and why you want to use it because of the feature(s) xyz. Like Fedora "it just works", or Void Linux "we do not use evil systemd."

                  • Bbrent

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                    mountain_mosquito brent

                    I don't know... Serpent OS was a very cool name, it was known already, the logo was great. Why renaming? With the previous post about the development slowdown the name changing adds even more doubt about the project success.

                    yeah, but it's a ways off the assembly line. it could change names again. as long as the package manager/packaging/moss part comes out first-rate for Solus, it's still exciting times. edit: and to have Ikey back creating an OS

                      My personal reason for switching to Solus is because everything I have need for just seems to work. I use a lot of technical programs like Cura and Freecad and recently tried OrcaSlicer. Solus is the only Linux OS I have found that can run OrcaSlicer. And I have tried plenty of them. When I have had a questionn about something I have received almost always a quick and accurate reply from this forum.

                      I would call this a great OS for people that need to use technical programs. I don't know how they did it but the developers of Solus have certainly done some good work creating an OS that does such a good job with more technical type programs.

                        Citfta When I have had a questionn about something I have received almost always a quick and accurate reply from this forum.

                        Agree on that. The Solus community is very nice, there are always answers or at least suggestions pointing to the right direction instead of rtfm.

                          mountain_mosquito There must be something on the first page, or in the first sentence telling people how this distro is unique and why you want to use it because of the feature(s) xyz. Like Fedora "it just works", or Void Linux "we do not use evil systemd."

                          Wait, those are supposed to be the good examples for unique distro selling points? ^^

                              I actually think it's always better to say a word or two about the content rather than posting links without comment.
                              that way the reader can get an idea of whether they want to click at all...
                              my 2 cents about using a forum

                              Lucien_Lachance
                              "As we've renamed we've issued an updated CLA which will need signing for new PRs. It's the same as the old CLA but incorporates the new name to avoid us causing legal confusion. Note that new copyright lines will need adding past the expiration of the "Serpent OS" name, starting from 2025.

                              // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright © 2020-2025 Serpent OS Developers
                              // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright © 2025 AerynOS Developers"

                              this is a brief re-organization dispatch

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