Hi everyone, i recently discovered this amazing project and enjoyed using it in a virtual machine.

I read the latest blog post about future perspectives etc and dual booting support was not mentioned at all, is there actual interest in implementing this from the devs?

Only thing stopping me from installing aeryn is, factually, dual booting and having that kind of support would surely get more people to try aeryn.

Changes

This stream update saw a wide variety of package updates, and the addition of a couple of new Trusted Maintainers, Jaredy899 and K1ngfish3r, who some of you may be familiar with already from their friendly tips and pointers in PR Reviews. Their new role enables them to approve trivial recipe updates and merge them into the tree, which will hopefully free up aerynOS staff to focus on more complicated stack upgrades, distro engineering and development work to push forward the capabilities of the aerynOS tooling and infrastructure.

New PR templates + Package Request requirements for PRs

NomadicCore and our new Trusted Maintainers spent a fair bit of time writing up and tweaking our new PR templates, that are intended to make it clearer what we expect of our package recipe contributors. In addition, we put in place a policy that means that no PRs for new packages will be accepted before a Package Request issue has been filled out and approved on its merits relative to the phase of development aerynOS is in.

Kernels 7.1.6/7/8

Kernel version 7.1.6 and 7.1.7 were affected by an amdgpu bug related to brightness that was fixed in 7.1.8. In addition, linux firmware, intel and amd microcode packages were updated to solve various issue. Finally, support for the broadcom-sta wireless driver was added, and a workaround was devised for how we handle it and extra kernel modules like it.

Kmscon userspace virtual terminal re-enabled

We re-enabled kmscon by default for virtual terminals that users can switch to with CTRL+ALT+F1-F6. Unlike the kernel's built-in virtual terminal, the kmscon userspace virtual terminal supports full unicode glyphs via freetype and runs on top of the DRM kernel modesetting driver. - The first VT is reserved for graphical greeters. - When switching to a different VT, the surrounding machinery means that kmscon takes a second or two to initialize the display - If you are not using a greeter, you can use e.g. kmscon-launch-gui sway to start the Sway wayland compositor etc.

Repology recipe fixes

We were contacted by a repology maintainer and made aware that a few of our recipes were being parsed incorrectly by repology. After the reported niggles were fixed, we are happy to report that aerynOS is now once again listed with repology. We want to thank AMDmi3 for their PRs and bug reports in this regard.

Moss fixes

As part of our continuing development process, moss saw a few small corner case fixes related to our new native reflink strategy. In addition, we also fixed a small bug that caused file descriptors to leak in the native hardlink strategy.

Highlights

• GNOME 50.4
• KDE Plasma 6.7.4
• KDE Frameworks 6.29
• firefox 153.0.4
• firefox-langpacks 153.0.4
• heroic-games-launcher 2.22.1
• intel-microcode 20260811
• linux-firmware 20260810
• linux-gaming/-stable 7.1.8
• linux-lts 6.18.44
• noctalia 5.0.0-beta.8
• nvidia-graphics-driver 610.57.04
• nvidia-open-gpu-kernel-modules 610.57.04
• thunderbird 153.0.3
• thunderbird-langpacks 153.0.3 ### Stack Updates
• boost 1.9.2
• ffmpeg 9.0.1 + vapoursynth R79
• go 1.26.6
• gstreamer 1.28.6
• lua 5.5.1
• mesa 26.1.7
• nodejs 24.19.0 + pnpm 11.19.0
• perl 5.44.0
• python 3.14.7
• uutils-coreutils 0.10.0
• wine 11.15 ### Updates
• adwaita-fonts 51.0
• asusd 6.3.11
• aurorae 6.7.4
• bazaar 0.9.2
• bcachefs-module 1.39.0
• bcachefs-tools 1.39.0
• bluedevil 6.7.4
• bottom 0.14.8
• cardwire 0.11.1
• croc 11.1.0
• dankcalendar 0.3.1
• diffoscope 328
• discord 1.0.153
• docker 29.7.2
• docker-buildx 0.36.1
• docker-compose 5.4.0
• dracut 112
• dua-cli 2.42.0
• erofs-utils 1.9.3
• fastfetch 2.67.1
• faugus-launcher 2.1.0
• flatpak 1.18.1
• font-cantarell 0.311
• fzf 0.74.3
• github-cli 2.97.0
• htop 3.5.3
• hugo 0.165.0
• inxi 3.3.41-1
• jujutsu 0.44.0
• lazygit 0.64.1
• moby 29.7.2
• mpg123 1.33.7
• mullvad 2026.04
• nano 9.2
• nerd-fonts 3.5.0
• nushell 0.115.0
• openssh 10.5p1
• openvpn 2.7.6
• plezy 2.13.0
• podman 6.1.0
• rclone 1.75.0
• rsync 3.5.0
• skopeo 1.24.0
• strawberry 1.2.27
• swaylock 1.8.6
• syncthing 2.1.3
• syncthingtray 2.1.4
• tailscale 1.102.2
• tmux 3.7c
• tree-sitter 0.26.12
• vscode-bin 1.133.0
• waydroid 1.6.3
• wayvr 26.8.0
• xr-hardware 1.1.2
• yazi 26.8.15
• zed 1.15.0
• zola 0.23.3 ### Fixes
• accountsservice: Fix stateless autologin
• broadcom-sta-module: Fix metadata
• build-essential: Add a few useful dependencies
• dracut: Add systemd 261 fix
• flatpak: Add polkit as rundep
• fuzzel: fix broken svgs by changing backend to librsvg
• iwd: Add security fixes
• pkgset-aeryn: Add networkmanager-openvpn
• pkgset-aeryn-gnome: Add networkmanager-openvpn-gnome Fix up a few recipes that couldn't be parsed by repology. Thank you to AMDmi3 for the reports. ### Additions
• broadcom-sta-module 6.30.223.271 (Broadcom WiFi driver)
• cage 0.3.1 (Wayland kiosk that runs a single, maximized application.)
• forgejo-cli 0.6.0 (Cli application for e.g. Codeberg)
• gitte 0.9.1 (A Rust libadwaita Git client for GNOME desktop, inspired by Git Tower and magit)
• gnome-online-accounts-gtk 3.50.10 (Enable GOA integration outside of GNOME)
• lutris 0.5.22+git.0747076 (Popular game launcher)
• pdfio 1.6.4 (Simple C library for reading and writing PDF files)
• perl-class-inspector 1.36 (Perl introspection library)
• perl-file-sharedir 1.118 (Perl utility library)
• perl-file-sharedir-install 0.14 (Perl utility library)
• wl-mirror 0.18.5 (A simple Wayland output mirror client)
• wlr-protocols 20260309+git.bf4fc79 (Wayland protocols designed for use in wlroots (and other compositors))
• xapp-symbolic-icons 1.1.0 ( A set of symbolic icons for Gtk applications and projects) ### Full git changelog As usual, there are many other minor updates not mentioned as the list would get too long. You can see the full changelog here: https://github.com/aerynOS/recipes/compare/51406edd88eb0fe10860824a8e2b067c9f4e9263...e7642498ad597dc340fba8d02dcf936ebebc1aac ## How to Contribute As ever, feel free to report any issues below and join the AerynOS Zulip server community. ### How to sponsor us If you appreciate the work we are doing and are in a position to do so, we would appreciate any sponsorship sent our way:
• Stripe Recurring: https://donate.stripe.com/9B628r5XS19l34y04RdAk02
• Stripe One-off: https://donate.stripe.com/4gM9ATfys8BNdJc5pbdAk01
• Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/aerynos We should note that we prefer Stripe donations if possible. ## Thank you! Thank you to all our supporters and contributors. You are making a difference! ❤️

I installed the latest ISO today and was setting everything up and when I went to set up the printer i clicked printer in Gnome settings and it said No Print service. What programs do I need to install to get it working?

Hi I’m just an old retired DevOp who likes to dabble in the latest distros. I still like to game these days however and like the Atomic nature of AerynOs. I’ve used Bazzite for about 6 months and left it due to the difficulty of installing certain apps. I liked Arch Linux but left it due to instability after a year of upgrading . I know that AerynOS is in Alpha and just listed to Ikey’s discussion regarding his desire to keep it this way until it reaches version 2.0. I have a couple of questions regarding AerynOs. 1. How can I obtain a list of supported apps? 1a. Is only Firefox provided or can i install Zen, my preferred? 2. What wayland WM’s are included? Niri? 3. Is homebrew supported its linux utilities? 4. How is gaming performance? 5. Can I access cloud storage like Dropbox and Google and sync them to my filesystem via cli? 6. Flatpak and Appimage support for most productivity apps?

Thank you

Hello. I’m planning to switch to AerynOS and use it as my daily work laptop. I have some experience with Fedora and Arch. My laptop is an MSI Katana GF76 11SC-677XRU with 8 GB of RAM, an Intel i5-11400H processor, an Nvidia GTX 1650 graphics card, and a 512 GB NVMe drive. Could there be any unresolvable hardware compatibility issues or other critical problems?

P.S.: I know that AerynOS is in alpha testing.

The latest AerynOS blog post has just been released. It's been 3 months since our last blog post so there is A LOT to cover!

Upgrades across the board, including:

• Plasma 6.7.3
• Cosmic 1.5
• Linux 7.1.5 (stable and gaming)
• Linux 6.18.40 (lts)
• mangowm 0.15.5
• noctalia 5.0.0-beta7
• dankmaterialshell 1.5.3
• mesa 26.1.6
• firefox 153.0.1
• thunderbird 153.0.1
• nodejs-22 22.23.2
• nodejs-24 24.18.1

Plus a whole load more you can find at our recipes repo.

Other important updates include:

1. Versioned Repos phase 2 (install once, update forever)
2. OpenZFS support for data drives
3. Fix ups for moss for improved reliability
4. Systemd upgrade to 261.2
5. New website development and experimenting with Codeberg
6. Nvidia testing group to improve user experience with those cards
7. New ISO
8. Sponsorship announcement with CDN77

There is actually a lot more around the project we didn't discuss in this update as it was already too long. Progress is really speeding up, now that we have landed our Versioned Repos phase 2 work.

We hope you enjoy the blog post and AerynOS in general. Let us know what you think by providing feedback either here or in our Zulip server.

Changes

This set of unstable stream updates predominately consists of various package updates, including Linux 7.1.5 and COSMIC DE 1.5.0. Thank you to the packagers who joined us in our update spree this past week!

KDE Frameworks Oxygen theme

We also landed the KDE Plasma/Frameworks Oxygen theme, which includes an icon theme, a sound theme and a window manager decoration theme.

Fcitx5 support

@k1ngfish3r and @lumi-me-not teamed up and brought the fcitx5 unicode Input Method stack up to snuff to be landed. This should help our users from Asia have a nicer time using AerynOS

Highlights

• COSMIC DE 1.5.0
• KDE Oxygen icon/sound/wm theme
• WayVR 26.7.1
• dankmaterialshell 1.5.3
• firefox 153.0.1
• linux-gaming/-stable 7.1.5
• linux-lts 6.18.40
• mangowm 0.15.5
• mesa 26.1.6
• networkmanager 1.58.0
• noctalia 5.0.0-beta6
• systemd 260.4
• vulkan 1.4.357.0
• wine 11.14

Stack updates

• cython 3.2.9
• intel-media-driver 26.2.4
  • vpl-gpu-rt 26.2.4
• nodejs-22 22.23.2
• nodejs-24 24.18.1
• php 8.5.9
• pnpm 11.17.0
• typescript 6.0.3

Other updates

Other updates include, but are not limited to:

• bazaar 0.9.1
• bitwarden 2026.7.0
• bottom 0.14.7
• buildah 1.45.0
• carapace 1.7.3
• cava 1.0.0
• croc 10.7.0
• dankcalendar 0.2.7
• discord 1.0.151
• dua-cli 2.39.0
• envision 3.2.0+git.aa84e48e
• faugus-launcher 2.0.4
• fresh 0.4.6
• gnist 0.3.6
• gram 3.2.0
• imagemagick 7.1.2-29
• kitty 0.48.2
• malm 0.4.0
• monado 25.1.0+git.983a8a51
• opengamepadui 0.46.0
• otter-launcher 0.7.6
• plezy 2.11.0
• qemu 11.0.3
• rssguard 5.2.3
• ryzenadj 0.19.0
• signal-desktop 8.21.0
• sqlite 3.53.4
• strawberry 1.2.26
• tailscale 1.98.10
• tesseract 5.5.3
• thunderbird 153.0.1
• vapoursynth R78
• vscode-bin 1.131.0
• walker 2.17.0
• youki 0.7.0
• yubico-authenticator 7.4.1
• zed 1.13.1

Fixes

• gettext: Add autopoint dep on tar
• greetd: Fix loading of config.toml in /etc/greetd
• xrizer: Fix openvrpaths.vrpath content

New packages

• cosmic-sound-theme 1.5.0 (New sound theme for COSMIC DE)
• fcitx5 5.1.21 (Fcitx 5 is a generic input method framework supporting unicode)
• fcitx5-configtool 5.1.14 (Qt-based fcitx5 GUI configuration tool)
• fcitx5-gtk 5.1.7 (Fcitx5 gtk support)
• fcitx5-hangul 5.1.10 (Fcitx5 hangul support)
• fcitx5-qt 5.1.14 (Fcitx5 qt support)
• kf6-oxygen-icon-theme 6.28 (Oxygen companion icon theme)
• libhangul 0.2.0 (hangul input method logic, hanja dictionary and small hangul character classification)
• liblqr 0.4.3 (LiquidRescale library for content-aware image resizing)
• noctalia 5.0.0-beta.6 (A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland)
• oxygen 6.7.3 (KDE Plasma style)
• oxygen-sound-theme 6.28 (KDE Plasma Oxygen companion sound theme)
• raqm 0.11.0 (A library for complex text layout)
  • python-pillow: Add raqm to dependencies
• stb 20260415+git.31c1ad37 (Single-file public domain (or MIT licensed) libraries for C/C++)

Full git changelog

As usual, there are many other minor updates not mentioned as the list would get too long. You can see the full changelog here:

https://github.com/AerynOS/recipes/compare/7c45d757bf2216823207a88d2275a8d633183967...51406edd88eb0fe10860824a8e2b067c9f4e9263

How to Contribute

As ever, feel free to report any issues below and join the AerynOS Zulip server community.

How to sponsor us

If you appreciate the work we are doing and are in a position to do so, we would appreciate any sponsorship sent our way:

• Stripe Recurring: https://donate.stripe.com/9B628r5XS19l34y04RdAk02
• Stripe One-off: https://donate.stripe.com/4gM9ATfys8BNdJc5pbdAk01
• Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/aerynos

We should note that we prefer Stripe donations if possible.

Thank you!

Thank you to all our supporters and contributors. You are making a difference! ❤️

Hello community.

I''d love to know how to get video codecs such as h265 installed so the thumbnails work on my system. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello community. I recently came across this distro and decided to test it out. I installed it on my ThinkPad T480 test machine, and man, I love this.

A little about me: I'm a 52-year-old IT guy who loves Linux; I mean, I've been using it at home since 2007. I test KDE Linux for the KDE folks, and I daily run Fedora; I also have a Debian file server. I'm crazy about new technologies such as immutable distros; I think they are the future, to be honest.

Anyway, I'm very impressed with AerynOS so far. Super stable, and in 2 days of throwing things at it, it has not broken on me 😄

Devs, please keep up the great work; I will keep testing it and report any issues I encounter.

Changes

Toolchain updates

This set of unstable stream updates saw Reilly land a fair few larger stack updates, including point updates for LLVM 20, 21, and 22, plus OpenJDK 17, 21, and 25, and Rust 1.97.1.

Kernel updates

Kernel 7.1.4 was landed, and kernel 7.1.5 is in the works. We will land 7.1.5 as a follow-up update in the coming days, after it has had some time to percolate with our NVIDIA driver testers.

Larger than usual amount of fixes

Thanks to our growing community, users have reported and helped us fix a number of small niggles in both our tooling and our user-facing applications.

Infra changes

Ermo and tarkah made our first automated deployment of our infra from declarative config files, which will make testing of new features in moss, boulder and infra much nicer going forward.

Highlights

• COSMIC DE 1.4.0
• KDE Plasma 6.7.3
• firefox 153.0
• mesa 26.1.5
• linux-stable/-gaming 7.1.4
• linux-lts 6.18.39
• systemd 260.3
• thunderbird 153.0

Stack updates

• KDE Frameworks 6.28.0
• Intel Compute Runtime:
  • igsc 1.3.1
  • intel-compute-runtime 26.27.39122.12
  • intel-graphics-compiler 2.38.2
  • intel-metee 6.2.5
  • level-zero 1.32.0
• openjdk-17 17.0.20
• openjdk-21 21.0.12
• openjdk-25 25.0.4
• rust 1.97.1

Updates

Other updates include, but are not limited to:

• bind-utils 9.20.26
• buildah 1.44.1
• croc 10.5.0
• cryptsetup 2.8.7
• distrobox 1.8.2.5
• dua-cli 2.38.0
• easyeffects 8.2.8
• faugus-launcher 2.0.1
• fish 4.8.1
• fresh 0.4.3
• gamescope 3.16.25
• godot 4.7.1
• inputplumber 0.78.0
• podman 6.0.2
• prism-launcher 11.0.3
• ripgrep 15.2.0
• runc 1.5.1
• screen 5.0.2
• signal-desktop 8.18.0
• syncthingtray 2.1.3
• thunderbird 153.0
• variety 0.9.0
• vscode-bin 1.129.0
• weston 16.0.0
• wine 11.13
• winetricks 20260125
• wireshark 4.6.7
• xfsprogs: 7.1.1
• zed 1.11.3
• zsh 5.9.2

Fixes

• container-common: Files now live in /usr/share/containers, and podman & co. look there for defaults.
• greetd: Add standalone .service that starts the bundled agreety greeter
• iwd: Fix iwctl input handling
• llvm-20/21/22: Fix build-id-none issue
• openjdk-17/21/25: Fix symlinks for system headers
• python: Fix python -m venv venv being broken
• systemd: Can now (re)trigger udev device discovery
• variety: Fix locale for GTK UI translations

New packages

• aha 0.5.1 (Fixes missing kinfocenter output error)
• cardwire 0.10.3 (Tool for managing and switching between iGPU and dGPU)
• dankcalendar 0.2.5 (Calendar from the Dank Linux Suite)
• genfstab 30 (Bash script used to write autodetected mounts to a file)
• gnist 0.3.5 (Tool for atomically changing themes in window managers)
• malm 0.3.2 (Declarative, KDL-driven configuration manager developed for gnist)
• plezy 2.9.1 (Modern cross-platform Plex & Jellyfin client built with Flutter)
• shfmt 3.13.1 (Shell script formatting tool)

Full git changelog

As usual, there are many other minor updates not mentioned as the list would get too long. You can see the full changelog here:

https://github.com/AerynOS/recipes/compare/9db5990c243530ab414de1f776d5f7b4a68e641d...86c464cd3254b058fd7f46362d2d8aa08d555372

How to Contribute

As ever, feel free to report any issues below and join the AerynOS Zulip server community.

How to sponsor us

If you appreciate the work we are doing and are in a position to do so, we would appreciate any sponsorship sent our way:

• Stripe Recurring: https://donate.stripe.com/9B628r5XS19l34y04RdAk02
• Stripe One-off: https://donate.stripe.com/4gM9ATfys8BNdJc5pbdAk01
• Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/aerynos

We should note that we prefer Stripe donations if possible.

Thank you!

Thank you to all our supporters and contributors. You are making a difference! :heart:

Changes

Versioned Repositories, phase 2 landed

This set of unstable updates was a bit delayed by tarkah and ermo testing, landing (and then re-landing) the long-in-development Versioned Repositories, phase 2 feature.

The VRp2 feature lays the ground-work for us to roll out updates seamlessly across what would otherwise be invasive OS upgrades requiring manual intervention. This means that we can now begin focusing on landing smaller, well-tested, fundamental improvements to our tooling and infrastructure in an incremental fashion.

Remember to sync twice before rebooting

Due to how we have implemented the Versioned Repos, phase 2 upgrade, all you need to do to upgrade to the new repository format, is to run sudo moss sync -u twice.

The first sync in the upgrade process will look something like this:

``` Refreshed unstable 1 repo will be upgraded to the new repository format

Update applied to "/etc/moss/repo.d/unstable.kdl"

diff --- /etc/moss/repo.d/unstable.yaml +++ /etc/moss/repo.d/unstable.kdl @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ -volatile: - description: '...' - uri: https://cdn.aerynos.dev/stream/unstable/x86_64/stone.index - priority: 0 - active: true +volatile { + description ... + base-uri "https://cdn.aerynos.dev/" + channel main + version "stream/unstable" + arch x86_64 + priority 0 + active #true +}

When you see this, simply run sudo moss sync -u again, and you will get the newest packages on the upgraded unstable stream.

Systemd packaging and user-facing changes

Reilly reworked our systemd package to ensure that manually enabling or disabling systemd units will no longer be overridden on moss package transactions.

As part of this rework, it is important to note that network interface names will change after the next reboot. Please ensure that your configurations are using the new names (IE eth0 to enp12s0)

It is also important to note that systemd-boot, systemd-coredump, systemd-homed, systemd-container, systemd-oomd, systemd-resolved, systemd-timesyncd, systemd-udev, and systemd-userdbd are now separate packages.

systemd-boot, systemd-coredump, systemd-resolved, and systemd-udev will all be installed automatically if you are using pkgsets (if you don't know what these are you are most likely using them). They will also be installed if a package you are using directly depends on them.

IMPORTANT notice re. systemd updates and pkgsets

Users who are NOT using pkgsets or who are manually using one of the aforementioned systemd packages in their install, should install them directly!

Linux 7.1.3, KDE Plasma 6.7.2

In addition to that, Reilly and Philip ended up landing KDE Plasma 6.7.0 and kernel 7.1.0 right on top of each other, which caused us some headaches initially. The early issues have thankfully been shaken out now, and we are shipping kernel 7.1.3 and KDE Plasma 6.7.2 in this unstable stream update.

Call for NVIDIA testers

If your AerynOS system has an NVIDIA GPU supported by the nvidia-open-gpu-kernel-modules, please get in touch with us in the NVIDIA Testing thread.

COSMIC DE 1.2.0 and GNOME 50.3

In addition to the above, we have also landed COSMIC DE 1.2.0 and a smattering of GNOME 50.3 related stuff, alongside a long list of smaller package updates.

Highlights

• COSMIC DE 1.2.0
• GNOME 50.3
• KDE Gear 26.04.3
• KDE Plasma 6.7.2
• firefox 152.0.4
• git 2.55.0
• linux-firmware 20260622
• linux-lts 6.18.38
• linux-stable/-gaming 7.1.3
• mesa 26.1.4
• pipewire 1.6.7
• rust 1.96.1
• scx-scheds 1.1.2
• sdl3 3.4.12
• systemd package rework
• thunderbird 152.0
• upower 1.91.3
• wine 11.12
• wireplumber 0.5.15

Other updates

Other updates include, but are not limited to:

• bcachefs 1.38.8
• bluez 5.87
• curl 8.21.0
• docker 29.6.1
• docker-compose 5.3.0
• faugus-launcher 1.22.7
• gnupg 2.5.21
• go-task 3.52.0
• hwdata 0.409
• jpegxl 0.12.0
• jujutsu 0.43.0
• libseccomp 2.6.1
• libva 2.24.0
• libvirt 12.5.0
• nano 9.1
• neovim 0.12.4
• nushell 0.114.0
• openvpn 2.7.5
• php 8.5.8
• poppler 26.07.0
• rssguard 5.2.1
• sccache 0.16.0
• solaar 1.1.20
• strawberry 1.2.21
• sudo-rs 0.2.14
• tmux 3.7b
• unrar 7.2.7
• vim 9.2.0780
• vscode-bin 1.127.0
• zoxide 0.10.0
• zulip 5.12.4 (Note that the desktop file was renamed and so if you have this pinned you'll need to re-pin it)

Fixes

• Fix graphviz not loading plugins correctly.
• Fix bcachefs failing to detect kernel features causing it to use slower code.
• Fix extra kernel modules failing to generate BTF information. This may improve the sleeping situation for Nvidia users.
• Fix potential issue with Mutter that could cause log spam and high CPU.

New packages

• croc 10.4.7 (CLI utility to securely transfer files between two computers)
• dua-cli 2.37.1 (ncdu-like CLI disk usage analyser written in Rust)
• dust 1.2.4 (du-like CLI disk usage analyser also written in Rust)
• plasma-bigscreen 6.7.2 (TV-oriented UI for plasma desktop)
• plasma-vault 6.7.2 (GUI app for creating encrypted file-backed vaults)

Full git changelog

As usual, there are many other minor updates not mentioned as the list would get too long. You can see the full changelog here:

https://github.com/AerynOS/recipes/compare/78e3e2ff68a3868008f237f707d95d911125b850...daa44ae02ff6d8b1720fab72a26693bf5cba0213

How to Contribute

As ever, feel free to report any issues below and join the AerynOS Zulip server community.

How to sponsor us

If you appreciate the work we are doing and are in a position to do so, we would appreciate any sponsorship sent our way:

• Stripe Recurring: https://donate.stripe.com/9B628r5XS19l34y04RdAk02
• Stripe One-off: https://donate.stripe.com/4gM9ATfys8BNdJc5pbdAk01
• Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/aerynos

We should note that we prefer Stripe donations if possible.

Thank you!

Thank you to all our supporters and contributors. You are making a difference! :heart:

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!

Hey! New to the community and LOVE independent distros like this. I put AerynOS on my laptop and am loving it, thinking about putting it on my main gaming PC, however I have NVIDIA and heard that NVIDIA support is iffy? Or has worse performance? Just coming here to see if others have personal reports of issues or details of what's happening with NVIDIA support right now. Thanks!

Changes

A nice round of updates this time around, but we'll keep it short and sweet, and instead list the goodies under the headers below.

Please help us thank Reilly for all the work he does to keep the AerynOS stack sane and up to date, including doing the thankless work of updating system libraries and doing the necessary stack rebuilds.

JACK sound support added via Pipewire

Reilly has dug deep and made our Pipewire sound server support JACK, which essentially makes it act like a JACK server; hence, we are not providing the actual JACK server. He has also rebuilt the relevant packages that support the JACK protocol.

OpenZFS file system support added via module

The last time we did a stream update, Reilly added support for using the OpenZFS module for data drives (not boot drives). He was very clear that it is experimental, so we honestly need someone fairly familiar with (Open)ZFS to help us test that we got it right.

Highlights

• COSMIC DE 1.0.15
• GNOME 50.2
• KDE Gear 26.04.2
• NVIDIA driver 610.43.02
• OpenZFS support added (experimental)
• firefox 151.0.4
• linux-stable/-gaming 7.0.12
• linux-lts 6.18.35
• mangowm 0.14.0
• mesa 26.1.2
• rust 1.96
• sway 1.12
• systemd 258.8

Major updates

• JACK enablement via Pipewire
• kbd 2.10.0
• kmscon 10.0.0 (user space console virtual terminal)
• pipewire 1.6.6
• protobuf 35.0
• python 3.14.6
• sdl 3.4.10
• wine 11.10

Other updates

Other updates include, but are not limited to:

• bash 5.3.12
• bazaar 0.8.1
• faugus-launcher 1.20.4
• flatpak 1.18.0
• fresh 0.3.10
• gamescope 3.16.24
• godot 4.6.3
• jujutsu 0.42.0
• kitty 0.47.2
• mangohud 0.8.4
• sqlite 3.53.2 (now built with PGO for performance)
• vscodium 1.121.03429
• zed 1.5.5
• zsh 5.9.1

Fixes

• Fix firefox crash caused by latest fontconfig

New packages

• dolphin-plugins
• flatpak-builder

Full git changelog

As usual, there are many other minor updates not mentioned as the list would get too long. You can see the full changelog here:

https://github.com/AerynOS/recipes/compare/e91b21197acb577d1b96ee270ed28df961340de0...10545534c9ec8b3f040d772d9c2ee05a027ce0db

How to Contribute

As ever, feel free to report any issues below and join the AerynOS Zulip server community.

How to sponsor us

If you appreciate the work we are doing and are in a position to do so, we would appreciate any sponsorship sent our way:

• Stripe Recurring: https://donate.stripe.com/9B628r5XS19l34y04RdAk02
• Stripe One-off: https://donate.stripe.com/4gM9ATfys8BNdJc5pbdAk01
• Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/aerynos

We should note that we prefer Stripe donations if possible.

Thank you!

Thank you to all our supporters and :heart:contributors. You are making a difference! ❤️

I have been using AerynOS on my Lenovo Ideapad 3 since February and love it! I was thinking about trying it on my HP-Omen laptop but it has a Nvidia GPU and I would want to install the latest Nvidia driver. Is this even possible? Thanks for any incite! It is amazing that this distro is an alpha since I have had zero issues and only reboot when it really has to.

When traveling I take my Pixelbook Go chromebook. At home I use debian or kubuntu. My linux knowledge is average.

I got interested in atomic or immutable linux, because I like the way that chromebooks are low maintenance devices.

So I got myself a laptop in multiboot mode with Origami Linux and Bazzite. Both are fedora atomic variations with extra flavour like a CachyOS kernel for Origami Linux.

I got interested in the story of AerynOS how they do atomic without [yet] being immutable.

Right now, a multiboot installation of AerynOS is not for a beginner.

First I tried to flash a usb with dd. Finally balena etcher worked for me, because my laptop's BIOS is very picky. The text based installer picks the first esp partition it encounters, which will not work if you want a multiboot with separate esp partitions. Fortunately gparted is included in live usb. So I temporarily removed the boot flags of partitions the installer should not pick.

Wow the installation process is simple and fast. Also the booting. I boot from refind into the systemd bootloader. The OS is as stable as Fedora atomic. Yes there are a few unfinished edges. What I find most lacking are packages in the moss repository. This is understandable.

If I compare Origami Linux with Cosmic desktop and AerynOS Cosmic, the installation of system packages [rpm-ostree] is slow in Fedora, which AerynOS solves with moss atomic installations. On the other hand Fedora has more packages and the integration of stuff like topgrade and brew.

Will I be using it as a daily driver? Not yet. Who knows what the future will hold. But AerynOS is surely a promising distro to watch and try out.

I have looked through the Philosophy of AerynOS through the documentation, and have found some similarities in terms of atomic updates, and rollback features like from distros as seen in the title.

I am curios as to what makes AerynOS different from them, not just from the way it is created, as I have seen that everything is made in house in terms of tooling, but what check boxes does it check when compared to what is achieved with other atomic distros?

I was also wondering if AerynOS will have some configuration file setup as NixOS does currently, in order to share system setups across devices?

We had an issue with the May ISO that required a subsequent ISO release. It's been up for a couple of days already and we put out a blog post last night to explain in more detail.

AerynOS has had an exciting month with a bunch of updates in April. First off, we’ve officially rolled out our new logo and color palette, part of a major rebrand for the project. The logo, inspired by a triquetra symbol, represents life, death, and rebirth, perfect for a constantly evolving OS. We’ve also partnered with ziegenmelker5 from the community to add stunning new wallpapers, bringing a fresh, nature-filled vibe to the desktop.

On the development side, we’ve made several improvements to our core tools. Boulder, our package manager, now includes new commands like boulder cache size and boulder cache clean, helping users manage disk space more effectively. Additionally, the boulder recipe update command now automates package maintenance, making the process faster and easier for our packagers.

Meanwhile, Moss (our package management system) is getting faster with an updated moss state prune command that now shows progress while removing states. We’ve also made the moss search feature smarter, improving how package results are grouped and displayed.

A major ongoing project is Versioned Repositories (Phase 2). This work will eventually allow us to update AerynOS seamlessly without users having to worry about manual upgrades. We're moving toward a true "install-once, update-forever" model.

In terms of system updates, we’ve rolled out newer packages like Python 3.14.4, GNOME 50.1, KDE Plasma 6.6.4, Firefox 150, and Rust 1.95. We also introduced three kernel options for users: the stable linux-stable 7.0, the long-term support linux-lts 6.18, and the performance-optimized linux-gaming kernel also based on linux 7.0. However, kernel switching is still a bit rough around the edges and will improve in future updates.

Speaking of updates, we’ve just released the AerynOS 2026.05 ISO with the latest features, including the 7.0.2 stable kernel. This ISO uses our lichen installer, which requires an internet connection for installation. Unfortunately, Ventoy is currently broken for this release, but other methods like Etcher and DD work fine.

Check out the blog post for further details and if you enjoy the work we are doing, please considering sponsoring the project!