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The distro uses moss as the default package management tool, blsforme for boot management, the LLVM/Clang 18.1.8 stack, and more Rust-based utilities. “As part of our efforts to modernize and strengthen the Serpent OS base, we’ve switched some components out for Rust alternatives: uutils-coreutils replaces coreutils, sudo-rs replaces sudo, ntpd-rs replaces timesyncd, and curl is built with rustls support (and hyper but this is being dropped upstream),” said Ikey Doherty.

On top of that, the GNOME edition features the Starship shell by default, along with the Zed code editor, Loupe image viewer, Resources system resource manager, and other Rust apps. Serpent OS also lets gamers install the latest Steam Client from the main repos.