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AerynOS Tooling Now Written In Rust Rather Than D, New Software Updates

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Coincidentally after writing this morning wondering about [1]what's going on with AerynOS (formerly known as Serpent OS), contributors "NomadicCore" and "Ermo" have issued a new project update outlining what's been going on the past few months.

While there hasn't been much external communication out of the project and project leader Ikey Doherty remains absent, there has been a lot happening. AerynOS tooling has been converted from the D programming language to now being written in Rust. AerynOS has also rebuilt every recipe in the package repository, a content delivery network (CDN) in place to speed-up package installation and ISO downloads, and a plethora of software updates in the package repositories.

The project moved away from D language after finding instability in their tooling earlier this year. As other code was already being transitioned to Rust, they decided to stop further development of D language based infrastructure and converge all on Rust.

Among the recent software updates to AerynOS have included Linux 6.14, LLVM 20.1, GCC 15.1.1, Rust 1.88, Mesa 25.1, GNOME 48.2, COSMIC 1.0 Alpha 7, Sway 1.11, Wine 10.8, and a wide variety of other package updates.

More details on the recent AerynOS happenings via [2]the AerynOS blog .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-Release-Turns-3-Months

[2] https://aerynos.com/blog/2025/06/30/mid-year-update/


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The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life
The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George
Wither. Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his
verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well".
In our own time, "The Dictionary of National Biography" notes that his
work "is mainly remarkable for its mass, fluidity and flatness. It usually
lacks any genuine literary quality and often sinks into imbecile doggerel".
High praise, indeed, and it may tempt you to savour a typically
rewarding stanza: It is taken from "I loved a lass" and is concerned with
the higher emotions.
She would me "Honey" call,
She'd -- O she'd kiss me too.
But now alas! She's left me
Falero, lero, loo.
Among other details of his mistress which he chose to immortalize
was her prudent choice of footwear.
The fives did fit her shoe.
In 1639 the great poet's life was endangered after his capture by
the Royalists during the English Civil War. When Sir John Denham, the
Royalist poet, heard of Wither's imminent execution, he went to the King and
begged that his life be spared. When asked his reason, Sir John replied,
"Because that so long as Wither lived, Denham would not be accounted the
worst poet in England."
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"