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Rebranding, Upgrading, and Wallpapering: AerynOS’ April glow-up! (aerynos.com)
 

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!

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AerynOS gets new branding (media.piefed.social)
 

It may have seemed quiet around AerynOS of late, however work has been ongoing in the background on multiple fronts.

You may have noticed the new logo for AerynOS popped up a couple of weeks ago without any real explanation. This post serves to be somewhat of an official launch!

When SerpentOS rebranded to AerynOS last February, we needed a new logo. At the time, we invited contributions from our users and eventually settled on our old logo as a temporary measure whilst we got something for the long term. With Ikey stepping away and priorities shifting, we stuck with the old logo longer than we would have liked.

An initial version of our new design (a version of a triquetra) was originally suggested last year as part of those contributions. Over the last few months, we have picked up the rebranding topic and worked with our community on Zulip to fine-tune the design and color scheme until we got to our final version.

Over the course of April, the team has been updating our online presence (websites, social media pages, donation websites etc) and have now finished the transition in full. One exception is that our boot screen still shows the old logo, this will be fixed in the coming days when our kernel is next updated.

With the logo, we have selected a new brand color palette:

Green: Links to nature like our tooling (moss, boulder, summit, avalanche etc)

Orange: Links to Rust which is our primary programming language

We have a light theme variation which has a different orange for better contrast on light backgrounds.

You can find the official assets in our branding repo: https://github.com/AerynOS/brand/

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.