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Serpent OS To Explore Offline Rollbacks & Tools As A Service
Following the recent Serpent OS alpha builds for this original Linux distribution led by well known developer Ikey Doherty, the project has now outlined both some of their short term and longer term plans for this from-scratch Linux platform.
We’re also shaking things up by being first-adopter of new technologies as default solutions, with a view to enhancing the robustness, origin-diversity and security of the system through Rust based replacements and alternatives to key components. You can already see this with our adoption of sudo-rs, coreutils (uutils), ntpd-rs, and not to forget rustls by default for our curl build. Outside of that, moss, boulder and the supporting crates are also written in Rust, giving us a strong foundation for the future.
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