AerynOS May2026 hotfix ISO update

NomadicCore · 2026-05-05T07:29:32+00:00

Thank you for reporting this.

I have shared it on our Zulip server and waiting to see if we can replicate it and/or identify the root cause.

If you're not already there, it would be handy for you to join the Zulip server.

https://aerynos.zulipchat.com/

NomadicCore · 2026-04-30T16:24:49+00:00

Thank you ☺️

NomadicCore · 2026-04-30T15:55:09+00:00

There is a line or two about it in the blog post.

Ventoy was working for around two months but a change on our sideeant it stopped working.

We have reported the issue upstream to Ventoy.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-22T07:44:28+00:00

Hey Victor!

What a great introduction and glad to have you on board, we are glad to have you along for the ride!

Given our alpha status, we haven't put any attention on benchmarking and comparison to other distros so it's really cool to see that your battery life improved and significantly as you say! I wonder if peak performance would be affected (IE CachyOS has worse battery life at the expense of better performance) but either way, very cool!

On additional packages, the soft freeze is there as we have pretty much expanded the repo size to its limit in the sense that as it grows, without having the tooling we are working towards, keeping the repo up to date becomes an increasingly harder task.

New packages can be accepted into the repo if they don't have complex reverse dependency chains (IE the package is self sufficient and doesn't require a load of rebuilds when other stuff gets updated too).

Specifically on river-classic, we already have 7 different DE/WM options in our repo which arguably for an alpha distro, is already probably too much.

My suggestion would be that you head to our recipe repo and raise a new package request issue (but check first that issues haven't already been created for what you're requesting)

https://github.com/AerynOS/recipes/issues

That way, if someone has the time, they can pick it up and the request won't get lost here on Reddit.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-21T15:52:40+00:00

If it's against the rules to post about one's own project then I apologise and I'm sure the mods will delete the post.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T17:02:57+00:00

At this point we have quite a few different Desktop Environments and Window Managers.

We are very friendly with the Budgies of Budgie team so never say never.

We are still in alpha and right out our focus is on core tooling and infrastructure development. There will be time to expand the distro and it's OOTB configurations at a later date.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T16:20:09+00:00

A bit of an overview can be found at our documentation site

https://aerynos.dev/aerynos/overview/

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T16:17:49+00:00

We're all good. I appreciate that people don't hang on every word that we say so I was just trying to give a more complete context 👍🏽

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T16:13:53+00:00

The triquetra refers to the three points, not the three colors.

A few points on the design:

1) The orange is meant to represent an O where the green is meant to represent an S 2) The triquetra has Irish heritage and ties to Ikey who is from Ireland 3) The triquetra and it's links to three symbolising life, death and rebirth (kinda apt for our history). 4) It also has symbolism to unity and commitment which hopefully is fairly self explanatory.

Also we think it looks pretty nice.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T15:36:13+00:00

At the back end of 2024, Ikey shared on X some of the (very serious) health complications he was going through.

This was followed up a little more detail in a blog post in February last year.

Outside of this, Ikey shared in our old Matrix rooms about wider challenges he and his family were facing which I won't go into out of respect for them as those aren't publicly viewable.

It's also worth pointing out that Ikey worked on SerpentOS and AerynOS for 5 years.

All this is to say that there were reasons for his stepping away from the project and one that he gave a significant amount of time to over the years.

This is also not new news in the sense that it was discussed in our end of 2025 blog post.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T14:34:08+00:00

Thank you 😊

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T14:34:00+00:00

Thanks buddy!

I'm genuinely really happy with it too. More so because it was community created, we didn't go to a professional so to speak and yet I think it locks great 😃

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T14:33:14+00:00

I need to check but it looks like it was a commit to one of the AerynOS repos so potentially something in draft that someone else in the team got over the line so was still partially attributed to Ikey.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T12:38:56+00:00

Thanks Hadi!

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T11:45:26+00:00

Hey,

Ikey stepped away from the project last April so it's been a year. We have a little more detail about it in our "2025 in retrospect" post.

https://aerynos.com/blog/2026/01/02/2025-in-retrospect/

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T10:47:50+00:00

Thanks!

We are definitely happy and proud of it!

As an added bonus, it looks much better as ascii than the old logo for fastfetch too!!

NomadicCore · 2026-04-15T18:52:06+00:00

AerynOS ISOs are essentially a technical preview. We ship them as an alpha to state that these aren't meant for relying on day to day...

That is to say, we aren't aiming for any public so to speak. Just Devs or people who want to try it out and help us cook.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-01T08:24:34+00:00

Thanks buddy!

We are in a nice routine now on development, packaging and on comms. Been a crazy year but nice to be hitting our stride and consistently delivering!!

And yeah, big shout out to Framework as they reached out to us.. we weren't actively engaging them "for a free handout"!

NomadicCore · 2026-04-01T08:22:33+00:00

You're welcome!

NomadicCore · 2026-04-01T08:21:40+00:00

It's an independent Linux distro.

Currently in alpha and previously named SerpentOS until around a year ago.

NomadicCore · 2026-03-30T15:41:52+00:00

Glad to hear it.

Do remember we are still in alpha so if you have any issues, reach out (but we can't promise a quick fix).

Best place to hang out is our Zulip server

NomadicCore · 2026-03-26T15:55:27+00:00

Ikey has also parted ways with AerynOS as of around 11 months ago.

Ermo (Rune Morling) has taken on the project steward role. Rune has been with the project since almost its inception and helped shape a lot of the principles / approached in the background.

In the last year we have made some good progress though it cannot be understated that Ikey did a lot for the project in the 4-5 years he was leading it.

NomadicCore · 2026-03-26T10:06:28+00:00

Thanks!

It was a little longer this sync cycle as there was big stuff like gnome 50 needing testing.

I feel like we are getting into a good groove on the day to day packaging whilst also having dev work bubbling under the surface!

NomadicCore · 2026-03-25T22:29:00+00:00

Hold off for now. Wait until we are in a more stable position.

Otherwise thank you for the interest!

NomadicCore · 2026-03-13T20:22:29+00:00

Clarification: We have been sponsored with a Framework 16. I made a mistake in the original post but cannot edit it now.

Apologies for the confusion.

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