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FESCo provenpackager sanction causes problems: an administrative process goes wrong in the Fedora community.
Process creation in io_uring: a new attempt to make the fork()/exec() pattern more efficient and flexible.
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SerpentOS enters Alpha

Posted Dec 26, 2024 7:58 UTC (Thu) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link]

In the future, I hope we come to see this as a significant omission in the news for this week...

https://serpentos.com/blog/2024/12/23/serpent-os-enters-a...

This is a Linux distro that leans Rust, not only offering the itself only in Alpha COSMIC desktop but also bundling UUtils instead of the GNU Coreutils. Also, since Rust requires LLVM anyway presumably, the main system compiler is Clang instead of GCC and the C++ lib is libc++ from Clang as well.

The system is still Glibc based ( not MUSL like Chimera Linux ). It would have been interesting to see Relibc as the choice here but perhaps that is a bridge too far at this point.

This is a distro I will watch with interest. It is very interesting to see these Clang/LLMV only ( no GCC ) Linux distros appearing.