AerynOS

Mini status update: 1st July 2026

We have spoken about our Versioned Repositories, phase 2 goal for months now and due to the awesome work of Tarkah and ermo, this was landed a little over a week ago to our volatile stream. Further infrastructure upgrades are in the pipeline and we will expand on it all in a future blog post.

We have landed new kernels (7.1 series), new DE versions (Plasma 6.7, Cosmic 1.2 and Gnome 50.3) amongst a load of other updates. In addition to that, Reilly has done a fairly extensive rework of our systemd package and how it works.

We need to let all these changes simmer for a few more days along with a little more testing of the Versioned Repositories, phase 2 code upgrades, before we sync our volatile stream contents to our unstable stream.

Thank you for your patience and understanding!

#AerynOS #Linux #KDE #Plasma #CosmicDE #Gnome #Rust

Both Linux 7.1 and Plasma 6.7 have landed in the AerynOS volatile Repo and are in testing

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Unstable stream update: 23 July 2026

A big update across the board to DEs, kernel, bug fixes, mesa, rust and openjdk just to name a few.

We also have some really cool new package additions!

Full announcement: https://github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discussions/176

#AerynOS #Linux #Rust #mesa #openjdk

Unstable stream update: 8th July 2028

A smaller stream update today, though no less important!

Updates for Nvidia users with improved DLSS support, better sleep and wake from suspend functionality. Overall the Nvidia experience on AerynOS is improving with the additional feedback we are getting from testers!

Openssh configuration has been improved and better set up for our Stateless approach and allowing users to set up their configurations as required.

The full changelog can be found at our GitHub discussions:

https://github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discussions/171

#AerynOS #Linux #nvidia

AerynOS Stream update: 25 May 26

A big update this week, far to much to cover in a Mastodon post! Key highlights include:

Linux 7.0.10 & 6.18.33 LTS
COSMIC DE 1.0.13
KDE Plasma 6.6.5
Firefox 151.0
mangowm 0.13.1
llvm 22.1.6

Full changelog at https://github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discussions/164

#AerynOS #Linux

Unstable Stream Updates: 10th June 2026

Notable updates include JACK sound support added via Pipewire and OpenZFS file system support added via a kernel module.

We have wider updates to the Cosmic, KDE and GNOME stacks + loads more!

https://github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discussions/165

On a separate note, the AerynOS Stripe one-off donation link was disabled last week as it was subject to a card testing attack. The issue is resolved and the link is re-enabled again.

These sorts of attacks impact the projects ability to collect donations to help cover project costs and save up for future project investment. If you like the work we are doing, please consider donating to the project.

aerynos.com/sponsor/

#AerynOS #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #Donate

Rebranding, Upgrading, and Wallpapering: AerynOS’ April glow-up!

Our latest monthly blog post and ISO release has gone live! Find out more on our blog!

https://aerynos.com/blog/2026/04/30/rebranding-upgrading-and-wallpapering-aerynos-april-glow-up/

#AerynOS #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #Rust #Development #Branding

AerynOS branding update

The AerynOS team has transitioned to a new logo and brand colour palette.

The new logo was created with community input and we feel it looks much better and comes with a light theme variation.

For the colors:
Green: Links to nature like our tooling (moss, boulder, summit, avalanche etc)
Orange: Links to Rust which is our primary programming language

Branding assets repo: https://github.com/AerynOS/brand/

This has been a long running project in the background with the original concept for this design suggested over a year ago when we originally rebranded to AerynOS. The old logo was used as a placeholder and we hadn't intended to run with it so long.

We hope you like the new branding and this will now allow us to continue working on our new website redesign as our next background workstream.

#AerynOS #Linux #OpenSource

AerynOS March26 project Update

Another month, another blog post! All part of our commitment to keeping you informed of our progress

https://aerynos.com/blog/2026/03/31/march-2026-project-update/

A special shout out to @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org
for sponsoring the project with a FW16!!

AerynOS is looking for project sponsorship to help the team continue developing AerynOS. Anything you can offer would be greatly appreciated and received

https://aerynos.com/sponsor/

#AerynOS #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #Sponsorship

It's been 2½ months since the AerynOS @zulip@fosstodon.org server went public. Some interesting key stats as of yesterday:

250 members
32.5k messages sent
14.3% of all those messages sent by me (NomadicCore)

The server has been working really well for us as a community with zero reliability issues and the use of channels and topics allowing for focused and varied discussions!

The server has been sponsored by Zulip as part of their commitment to open source and we want to thank them for that! All round success!

Come and check it out and get involved with AerynOS!

https://aerynos.zulipchat.com/

#AerynOS #Zulip #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #OSS

Less than a month ago, I posted about AerynOS making it into the Distrowatch Top40.

Now, just less than a month later, we have managed to get into the Top30 and our hits per day are still increasing.

It's fair to say the Distrowatch ranking isn't an accurate sign of popularity in the sense of active users. All the distros around AerynOS in the rankings will dwarf us in actual installs.

What I do think this points to is that people are becoming increasingly aware of AerynOS and are interested in following along with our progress whilst we are on our journey in eventually delivering a robust and stable solution.

#AerynOS #Linux #FOSS #Rust #DistroDevelopment

Unstable Stream Update: 10th April 2026

A bigger update than usual over the last few weeks:

- Python upgraded to 3.14
- Plasma 6.6.4 + KDE Frameworks 6.25.0
- Reworking our kernels (LTS now offered + a gaming kernel coming soon)

https://github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discussions/148

To get involved, join our community at https://aerynos.zulipchat.com/

#AerynOS #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

AerynOS February 2026 Project update

We have had a pretty busy month this month around the project. Find out all the juicy details in the latest blog post!

https://aerynos.com/blog/2026/02/28/february-2026-project-update/

#AerynOS #Linux #DistroDevelopment

Unstable Stream Updates: 11th of March 2026

A big update this week with changes across the board. The full details can be found on our GitHub Discussions post.

https://github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discussions/142

#AerynOS #Linux #FOSS

AerynOS build infrastructure demo

Demonstration of our 4 builders churning through Plasma 6.6, visualised on our Summit dashboard.

We have and continue to build our tooling to make packaging and distro management as easy as possible. The infrastructure is flexible to add more builders as needed and these visualisation options help diagnose issues as they may arise.

Video Speed - 4x
Total time from recipe merge to available in repo - ~30 minutes

#AerynOS #Rust #Linux #KDEPlasma #DistroDevelopment

AerynOS has landed KDE Plasma 6.6 in our Volatile repository.

So far, everything seems to be running nicely but we will keep it in our volatile repository for around a week whilst we do further testing.

#AerynOS #Linux #KDEPlasma #Plasma

AerynOS Unstable Stream update: 11th February 2026

This week we have a sizable update landing in our unstable repository with updates to many of our DEs, updates to how boulder works to making life easier for our packagers, an additional installation option in lichen (to make setting up a custom Window Manager install easier), changes to our kernel scheduler, new packages and much more.

With all the new updates and specifically with the lichen installer update, we will likely land a new ISO much sooner than our usual cadence.

This week, we have also included links to our new Stripe donation options. Stripe will be the preferred method for receiving donations going forwards as it reduces the overall fees we are being charged (compared to Ko-Fi) by around 7% which is not insignificant!

Recurring: https://donate.stripe.com/9B628r5XS19l34y04RdAk02
One-off: https://donate.stripe.com/4gM9ATfys8BNdJc5pbdAk01

The GitHub discussion post has all the details as there is much more that can't be covered in a Mastodon summary post.

https://github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discussions/135

As always, if you would like to get involved and/or join our community, Zulip is the best place to interact with the team and get involved. The link is in the GitHub Discussion post.

#AerynOS #Linux #Rust #OpenSource #FOSS

Unstable Stream Updates: 26th Feb 2026

A sizeable update this week with updates across the board. Notable updates include:

- COSMIC DE 1.0.8
- GNOME 49.3/4 application updates
- KDE Frameworks 6.2.3
- KDE Plasma 6.6.1
- mangowc 0.12.2
- linux 6.8.13
- mesa 26.0.1

There have been a lot of package updates and new packages added this cycle all helping flesh AerynOS out into something more usable for our current testers.

Long time friend of the project, Fabio has rejoined the fold and has hit the ground running with a number of fixes and code refactors to moss and boulder with more in the pipeline.

The full update is look long for a mastodon post so to find the full details, please check out our GitHub Discussion post:

https://github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discussions/138

If you're enjoying the updates, please check out our Zulip server:

https://aerynos.zulipchat.com/

Also, please consider donating to to the project:

Recurring: https://donate.stripe.com/9B628r5XS19l34y04RdAk02

One-off: https://donate.stripe.com/4gM9ATfys8BNdJc5pbdAk01

Lastly, we want to say thank you for all of our supporters and contributors! You are all making a difference!!!

#AerynOS #Linux #KDE #KDEPlasma #Cosmic #CosmicDE #Gnome #MangoWC #Mesa

Unstable Stream Update: 25th March 2026

A big update with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3 & KDE Frameworks 6.22, LLVM 22, ffmpeg 8.1, linux 6.18.19, mesa 26.0.3 and loads more!

Forum post: https://github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discussions/144

Join our Zulip community: https://aerynos.zulipchat.com

To sponsor the project, find out more on our website: https://aerynos.com/sponsor/

#AerynOS #Linux #FOSS #Donate #Sponsorship #SupportOpenSource

Thanks @MichaelTunnell@mastodon.social for covering our latest Alpha ISO release on your excellent This Week in Linux weekly news show!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK81IHWIPPE

If you haven't come across This Week in Linux, I highly recommend you check it out and consider subscribing.

As an aside, congratulations on recently hitting the 100k subscribers! Well done and well deserved!

#Linux #AerynOS #DistroRelease

@cozybuild@mastodon.social So we have the "terminal-only" option as a consideration for advanced users and server workloads but honestly, if something goes wrong, we can't accept any responsibility as when we say alpha, we really mean alpha!

Aside from that, I also wonder if we have all the packages one might need for common server use cases?

Do with that information what you will. We do believe that in time, the core tooling we are building will be very capable and flexible for a lot of different workloads.

@cozybuild@mastodon.social very glad to hear it!!!

And this is with us being in Alpha, it's only going to get better ❤️❤️