AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs were released today for closing out the month of October. AerynOS as a reminder is the Linux distribution that was started by Ikey Doherty and originally known as Serpent OS.

AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs are now available for testing this original Linux distribution effort. The most visible difference with AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs is moving to the GNOME 49 desktop and other up-to-date software components.

AerynOS this month also packaged KDE Plasma 6.5.1, COSMIC Beta 3, the Linux 6.16.12 kernel, Mesa 25.2.5 graphics drivers, sudo-rs 0.2.9, PipeWire 1.4.9, FFmpeg 8.0, and numerous other package updates.

AerynOS developers did also decide this month to switch back to using GNU libstdc++ as their C++ standard library rather than LLVM’s libc++. The reasoning for moving from libc++ to libstdc++ was described as addressing some issues and easing their patch carrying maintenance burden:

“The team decided to switch back to the GNU libstdc++ library from the LLVM libcxx C++ library as a defensive measure. This has resulted in us having to carry fewer patches across the stack, and has resolved a few bugs as a bonus. In particular, this has squashed an annoying bug related to the Firefox Widevine DRM plugin that in turn previously made certain video conferencing tools crash.”

AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs and more details on this month’s improvements to this Linux distribution can be found at AerynOS.com.