Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure it is a Linux distro, if slightly unusual userspace.
why are they calling it an os then? cosplaying arnold kling?
I'd like to interject for a moment...
Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released
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#25While 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…
I would add:
- it accomplished the task of teaching some technology/language/practice to the author, so that it becomes subjectively useless after that knowledge is absorbed.
Sometimes people start building a car because they need an incentive to practice making wheels.
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#27Why someone would want an imperative distro over a declaratively configured one?
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#28Looks very cool. Seems to have a very similar feature set to nixos, curious how they compare?
Nix is declarative, this one is imperative.
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#30While 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…
Sometimes you start a project, more and more people start to collaborate, and eventually most of the project's contributors want to move it in a direction that doesn't interest you.
At that point you can either be a spoilsport, or step away amicably.