I wanna try Solus again after the comeback, The only concern I have is it might go on hiatus again for long and then history repeats itself.

To quote the latest State of Solus blog post:

Solus Staff now includes the following people:

Alex Vorobyev (aleksvor)
Algent Albrahimi (algent)
David Harder (davidjharder)
Evan Maddock (EbonJaeger)
Fabio Forni (livingsilver94)
Gavin Zhao (GZGavinZhao)
Ikey Doherty (ikey)
Joey Riches (joebonrichie)
Joshua Strobl (JoshStrobl)
Philipp Trulson (der_eismann)
Reilly Brogan (ReillyBrogan)
Rune Morling (ermo)
Silke Hofstra (silke)
Tracey Clark (TClark77)
Troy Harvey (Harvey)
Zach Bacon (ZachBacon)

Plus I've seen one more pop up recently. That's more people than were ever part of the Solus team in the past, as far as I know. So there has never been less of a reason to worry about Solus suddenly "dying".

Eventually the sun will expand into a red giant and consume the earth. Will Solus survive that? I don't know but I'm optimistic.

    I'm operating under the assumption @ikey will eventually create a "universal" moss that will enable us to perform safe, atomic (hehe) updates and avoid catastrophic issues such as heat death of the universe. If done quickly enough, maybe we can perform a rollback of the transaction that has committed the expansion of the Sun? 🤔 Just spit-balling ideas here.

    Then a noob chimed in ... sounds like the start of a bad joke. However, this noob completely enjoys using Solus. Out of all distro hopping I've done, Solus is the one to stay. It looks and feels polished, the package manager, Budgie luuuvin', etc.

    To me it works like a charm, but I understand that there's improvement on the way from a more technical point of view. After reading the 'A New Voyage' and 'State of Solus August 2023' blogs, I understand you want to move to something 'new tooling'.

    What does the tooling part mean? How this sounds to my ears is like my car that's running perfectly fine in my opinion, but the mechanic says, "Yea, but your engine is about to explode". "But it's running fine". "But your engine is about to explode".

    To me Solus is running fine, but the devs says, "Yea, but it would be nice to get new tooling". I imagine something like software management through more efficient and capable software and/or services? As in your 'tools'? How should interpret basing Solus on Serpentine for new tooling with a 'physical world' example. If that's even possible.

    Thanks!

    Lucien_Lachance nice find. Ikey:
    "TLDR: Mass conversion of .eopkg to .stone, with source conversion later, to generate bootstrap repository to rebootstrap as stone.yml

    In English: We're gonna enable Serpent OS/ Solus 5 now, kthxbai."

    (I wonder if the justin that thread is the justin from these pages not so long ago?)

        brent (I wonder if the justin that thread is the justin from these pages not so long ago?)

        yes