SHARE
Facebook X Pinterest WhatsApp

Ikey Doherty’s Serpent OS Changes Name to AerynOS

Written By
MN
Marius Nestor
Mar 29, 2025

Why the big change after all this time developing this new Linux distro? Well, Ikey Doherty says that “the “Serpent OS” name was a quickly chosen name that stuck.” In addition, the developer thinks that “serpents” are often associated with negative connotations and that “Serpent OS” is not the most inviting name for a project.

MN

Marius Nestor

Recommended for you...

Immich 2.3 Adds Multilingual OCR Models
Bobby Borisov
Dec 5, 2025
Red Hat Project Hummingbird For CVE-Free, Ready-to-Deploy Container Images
brideoflinux
Dec 5, 2025
Linus Torvalds is Surprisingly Optimistic About Vibe Coding – Except for This One ‘Horrible’ Use
sjvn
Dec 5, 2025
Xen 4.21 Hypervisor Arrives With New PDX Compression
Bobby Borisov
Dec 5, 2025
Linux Today Logo

LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.

Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2025 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.