Sometimes, a Linux distro comes along, that just make sense.
So just another opinionated Linux distro?
The only technical Linux term in the article seems to be Wayland.
Dude idk… Reads like Aryan (Hitler’s version) to me and I don’t like it.
I just wouldn’t wasn’t to day I use the Aeryn distro lol, sure, Linux, but idk.
I know that Hitler was a bad guy. Really! But why detest everything he coopted? Many have a very different meaning in reality. ‘Swastika’ is Sanskrit for a symbol of peace and wellness. Similarly, the Aryans were an ancient race, whose lineage still exists in the world today among a huge population (I’m talking about genealogy, not the eugenics concept). I’m one of them. But we rarely discuss that - not because of the Nazi link, but because it hardly makes any difference today. (However, our language is still very similar to the Aryan language.) What we actually like is to explore other languages, cultures and traditions and absorb their best - something I hope we can all agree isn’t very Nazi-like.
I swear I just heard about an open-source project that got renamed when the creator realized the name sounded like “aryan”, how many of these are there??
It used to be called Serpent OS but Ikey thought the name was a bit silly/immature if I remember correctly
https://aerynos.com/
There, saved you a clickThe article reeks of AI, I literally heard my inner voice talking like those slop videos
From the article:
But sometimes, something new shows up that makes us long-time Linux users pause mid-coffee sip and go, “okay … hold on. What exactly are you doing over there?”
Lol
The article unfortunately does a horrendous job at highlighting AerynOS’ unique features by only giving vague descriptions without going into any technicality that matters.
FWIW, my two cents on AerynOS:
- It offers (yet) a(nother) novel approach to atomic distros. The gist for its ambition (or, at least, my understanding of it) would be NixOS, but with FHS intact and without a DSL.
DSL? Digital Subscriber Line? Damn Small Linux?
Domain-Specific Language. In the context of NixOS, that would be the Nix language.
Thanks!
Yes, the big feature seems to be their package manager. But just because an update succeeds does not mean it did not break anything.
They also have their own boot manager and they seem to be fans of Rust, which explains the COSMIC desktop option. They have their own build system.
It is not clear to me that they are doing anything novel beyond that.
They do not have centralized configuration as far as I am aware so they do not go as far as Nix. As a Chimera Linux user, the atomic updates and bespoke build system feel like things I already have.
Overall it sounds like a nice project. But the improvements seem more incremental than revolutionary.
They do not have centralized configuration as far as I am aware so they do not go as far as Nix.
Which is why it’s (only) their ambition 😜. But thanks for prompting me to clarify!
Furthermore, their wording would suggest that configuration is not part of what’s declared. Which -at best- would make it relatively light on how declarative it is.
Instead, AerynOS leans into a tightly integrated, curated desktop experience.
This is (as far as I can tell) the unique feature the article touts. Even though that fits Mint, Ubuntu and I think Fedora.
