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Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released

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Re: Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released

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Post by silisili »

While I have a lot of respect for Ikey and think he's extremely talented, he tends to start a project and then either move to something else or disappear. Hey, life happens, and doing open source work for free is a grind, so it's not meant as an insult. But I'd see Serpent as a toy/POC rather than a long lived OS. I'm excited to try it, either way.

I -believe- I read that a lot of this work will be going into Solus, a previous Ikey project, which has a new team and small community now. So hopefully this is kinda best of both worlds if true for both sides.

Re: Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released

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Post by keyle »

silisili wrote: post #2

While I have a lot of respect for Ikey and think he's extremely talented, he tends to start a project and then either move to something else or disappear. Hey, life happens, and doing open source work for free is a grind, so it's not meant as an insult. But I'd see Serpent as a toy/POC rather than a long lived OS. I'm excited to try it, either way. I -believe- I read that a lot of this work will be going into Solus,…

I don't know the author but it's worth keeping in mind that... Sometimes people end working on a project because

- it has no future, ran its course, proved wrong somehow

- cannot add more that others could do better

- an alternative makes more sense long term

It's true that many people end working on something because it gets too hard or they lack focus.

But in this case, seeing the breath of the projects, this is not the case.

Re: Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released

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Post by keyle »

arccy wrote: post #3

prealpha is such a weird name, just call it a dev/nightly build or an actual alpha

Beta is typically close to feature complete.

Alpha is basically not close to feature complete.

Pre-alpha is check this out but here be dragons! For an OS it makes sense, seeing failure typically means a hard reboot.

Re: Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released

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Post by silisili »

keyle wrote: post #4
silisili wrote: post #2

While I have a lot of respect for Ikey and think he's extremely talented, he tends to start a project and then either move to something else or disappear. Hey, life happens, and doing open source work for free is a grind, so it's not meant as an insult. But I'd see Serpent as a toy/POC rather than a long lived OS. I'm excited to try it, either way. I -believe- I read that a lot of this work will be going into Solus,…

I don't know the author but it's worth keeping in mind that... Sometimes people end working on a project because - it has no future, ran its course, proved wrong somehow - cannot add more that others could do better - an alternative makes more sense long term It's true that many people end working on something because it gets too hard or they lack focus. But in this case, seeing the breath of the projects, this is no…

Absolutely, thanks for pointing that out. I really hope it didn't come across as condescending, as I didn't intend it to be - because I have the same habit. Do something until it's not exciting anymore and move on. Though unlike myself more often, he tends to actually finish what he's working on initially.

I guess I was trying to paint a short historical picture and why I'm pretty excited about it as a Solus user - its package manager is a bit long in the tooth. I think could be a really great relationship having one team/person prototype and another adopt into something more stable.

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