Thanks for pointing toward the Serpent OS forum and blog! I'm excited to jump in. Also, it looks like on the serpent OS website that sponsoring is happening only at the developer level, but I'll be curious to see if the project as a whole is also accepting support. I'm not rushing things, just curious of status. I can't even fathom how many ducks need to be put in a row for this effort. Thanks to all the Devs on our side for getting things ready!

    Does anyone here know what to do with KVM disks? I've never run into those before.

    Nevermind ... It was easy to find that it stands for Kernel Virtual Machine. That's a kind of virtualization that I'd never heard about, but it sounds intresting. I'm eager to learn more, starting in the morning.

    Harvey , shed technical debt,

    I had to look that up (https://www.digitalocean.com/resources/article/what-is-technical-debt):
    "Technical debt is the accumulation of sub-optimal or expedient solutions in software development that can slow future progress and increase costs. It represents the extra development work that arises when a team chooses a quick and easy solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer.

    Like financial debt, tech debt has a cost over time:

    Software patches
Increased maintenance requirements
Restructuring
Bug fixes
Lengthy development processes"

    @WetGeek personally never heard of a disk with that name

        Bhibb sponsoring is happening only at the developer level,

        That's because only one guy that started it all, Ikey. AFAIK, he uses that github sponsor fund to pay for all infra on Serpent. So, if you have spare income, better sponsor now to get Serpent production ready sooner rather than later.

          brent personally never heard of a disk with that name

          You would if you'd ever looked at the Downloads page for Serpent OS. I was curious to set up the most recent version in a VM to take at look at how it's progressed since the last time I looked, and that's how it's offered. I've been busy so far today with laundry and getting breakfast ready, but when I get some free time I'll look into it farther.

            I did try their KVM disks prototype.tar.zst a few months back. It was easy, just extract the archive, and click on some script or file there (Couldn't check, currently building something on PC) and voila you run SerpentOS. It was only tty, so you can only test moss cli. I remember you have to have libvirt installed before running the script. I think this instruction only ever available on matrix chat, might be wrong. Cheers, happy testing!

              brent personally never heard of a disk with that name

              Here's a fairly comprehensive introduction and tutorial on the subject, but basically it seems to boil down to virt-manager without the GUI, and with a rather steeper learning curve. I prefer to wait.

                alfisya It was only tty

                Yep, like the .ISOs. That's what I used. It was fun fooling around with moss, but I'm looking forward to trying the Solus/Serpent product, even if it's an alpha release.

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                  What is the best VM to try Serpent on? Couldn't get it to boot on Hyper-V there are Notes about mangling the XML file in boxes and VirtualBox cant see in Discover? Created a Live USB from the Alpha download and that boots on hardware but don't want to install on bare metal.

                    banger virt-manager would be fine. Just don't forget to set the firmware to UEFI in the settings.

                        Couldn't get it to boot off the virtual HD there was a panic the live works fine enough to install and Gpart. Wanted to try the cosmic desktop. Maybe when it is in beta.

                        Anyway to change the location of Virtual HDs as I have limited space on my Solus partition in virtual manager?
                        Think I have worked it out has to be done when creating the VM and add a storage pool.

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                        If Solus plans to rebase on Serpent OS, does it mean Solus will become an immutable distro?

                          AlphaElwedritsch
                          I'm not eager to see Solus rebased on SerpentOS; I think Solus works very well the way it is. On the other hand, I would love to see what great ideas Ikey Doherty has for SerpentOS, and I hope some day we can see and enjoy a stable version. Time will tell.

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                                mountain_mosquito does it mean Solus will become an immutable distro?

                                I think that's the endgame. Or it was 2 years ago.

                                joluveba I'm not eager to see Solus rebased on SerpentOS; I think Solus works very well the way it is. On the other hand, I would love to see what great ideas Ikey Doherty has for SerpentOS, and I hope some day we can see and enjoy a stable version. Time will tell.

                                Same as "if it ain't broke don't fix it." On the other hand: to me, Ikey has always been this genius visionary so I would expect more celtic magic. I am of two minds as well but I think a lot of positive things will fall into place.

                                    Oh boy, another package manager to learn. 🙂