Technology
August 24, 2026 by Viktor “Vik” Bugov
After eighteen months of work, the distribution's third major release replaces the venerable fpkg tool with a transactional installer that can roll back a broken upgrade without leaving the shell.
The release everyone has been waiting on landed this morning, a little over eighteen months after the 2.x series was declared feature-frozen. ferdiOS 3.0 is, by the release team’s own description, “a boring release with one enormous exception” – and that exception is the package manager. What changed fpkg has been rewritten from the …
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Science
August 19, 2026 by Mila Cache
Three years and one abandoned prototype later, the fair-share scheduler that has run ferdiOS since its first release has been retired in favour of a design built around latency guarantees rather than throughput.
The patch series merged quietly on Tuesday evening, without an announcement, which is roughly how the kernel team has handled every milestone in this project. It is nevertheless the largest single change to the ferdiOS kernel in a decade. Why replace something that worked The old scheduler was fair, and fairness was the problem. It …
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Finance
August 11, 2026 by Georgi Stacktrace
A regional venture fund has taken a position in the Linux mobile space, handing the ferdiOS project an one-time 80 EUR war chest that leadership describes as "transformational".
ferdiOS confirmed Tuesday that it has closed an €80 round, its first outside capital of any kind. The cash injection took place on Monday, and was promptly converted into a Claude subscription - the entire deployment of proceeds. Deal terms Line item Amount Gross raise €80.00 Net proceeds €80.00 Claude Pro runway (at burn rate) 4 …
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