The aerynOS team has published its latest unstable stream update, introducing Linux kernel 7.2.15, which marks the final release in the 7.2 series. The team is preparing to move to version 7.3, expected to arrive in the volatile repository soon.
The update also includes Linux LTS 6.18.62, along with newer versions of several system components, including systemd 261.5, LLVM 23.1.5, and glibc 2.44 development snapshots.
On the package management side, Moss now displays help when users enter the older moss install and moss remove commands or their aliases. Boulder and Ent have also been updated to use a new versioning format for packages built from Git commits.
Desktop updates include KDE Gear 26.08.3, Hyprland 0.57.1, Dux suite 2.1 (formerly Dank Material Shell), Waybar 0.16, and Mir 2.31, accompanied by a rebuild of Miracle WM.
KWin receives a fix for crashes involving DisplayLink docking stations when running fullscreen applications. Additional upstream NVIDIA fixes address graphical glitches, flickering, and buffer allocation problems.
COSMIC Player receives missing GStreamer dependencies, restoring audio and video playback. Meanwhile, both Ghostty and Kitty have fixes for Bash shell startup integration.
Other notable package updates include GStreamer 1.28.9, Poppler 26.11, Zed 1.27, Signal Desktop 8.34, and PowerStation 0.9. The Poppler update includes printing fixes, while additional character maps required by Ghostscript have been added.
Moreover, Rsync now includes daemon service units and the rrsync restricted helper. Zulip Desktop also gets a fix for flashing when using dark mode, along with a new application theme selector.
Finally, several new packages have been added to the repositories, including the terminal-based bandwidth monitor bandwhich, the disk usage utility duf, Gitea’s official command-line client, GNU Stow, and openfortivpn.
KDE’s KeepSecret password manager and the JetBrains Mono typeface are also newly available.
For more information, see the announcement.
For those who (like me) have never heard of this distro:
aerynOS (“erinOS”) is an independent Linux distribution being built from the ground up with its own tooling. We are developing an atomic operating system which supports both declarative and imperative system management approaches, and offers rollback capabilities that help reduce the risk of system failure from unsuccessful or interrupted updates.
and here’s part of their blurb about moss:
moss looks and feels a lot like a regular package manager, however it actually manages the entire operating system via content addressable storage. Every single file from every package is deduplicated via a hash-based addressing scheme in the moss store, allowing us to produce new system roots on the fly.
never heard of ts
.gitignore of their package manager was uploaded in Sept. 2023. They claim to build everything from scratch in Rust.
These two details are very unfortunate for a less-known project that was not abandoned for at least three years it exists. I don’t think it’s a bucket of slop, since I find it’s description a bit opinionated, with some unneeded details making it more real.
For my unexpirienced eye it does look like someone’s passion project.
It was Ikey Doherty’s of Solus and Intel Clear linux fame passion project; was, because he basically left yet another project behind. Now it’s being carried over by solus contributors and other interested parties who are working on making it a stable base for power users and distribution makers to use of.
It’s basically build atop of a declative Nix/Guix-like package manager if it was made for a more sensibly readable config language like kdl, essentially toml but good, and it only deals in packages, not configs, simplifying it a lot, thus, you can just use as if it was a normal imperative package manager (it isn’t) and just:
sudo moss pkg add whatever
And it’ll declaratively update the config file to add the package to it, which you can just copy to another machine to replicate the current system’s state, all without having to edit a config file in a language that requires some knowledge In functional programming, nor a degree in compsci to create a package for the distro. “System model” they call it.
As far I know, solus is intending to eventually use it as base. They pretty notoriously banned AI to their distro codebase a while back, definitely not slop.
