# Ikey Doherty Plans To Show How To "Properly" Build A Modern Linux Distro **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux articles and news\ **Created:** [September 5, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://aerynos.discourse.group/t/ikey-doherty-plans-to-show-how-to-properly-build-a-modern-linux-distro/95 "2026-09-05T18:54:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![soap.bubble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@soap.bubble](https://aerynos.discourse.group/u/soap.bubble)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://aerynos.discourse.group/t/ikey-doherty-plans-to-show-how-to-properly-build-a-modern-linux-distro/95/1 "2026-09-05T18:54:11Z")
> **[Ikey Doherty Plans To Show How To "Properly" Build A Modern Linux Distro](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ikey-Doherty-Plans-Linux-Build)** > > Ikey Doherty is back in the Linux distribution space Written by [Michael Larabel](https://www.michaellarabel.com/) in [Operating Systems](https://www.phoronix.com/linux/Operating+Systems) on 5 September 2026 at 02:35 PM EDT. [Ikey Doherty](https://www.phoronix.com/search/Ikey+Doherty) is back in the Linux distribution space. Sort of. Ikey Doherty who was the founder of the Solus Linux distribution as well as Serpent OS (now AerynOS) as well as having been employed by Intel on their Clear Linux team is back at it again in the Linux space. While being a full-time traveler and content creator, Ikey Doherty wrote into Phoronix to share his upcoming Linux plans. He says he is “not making another distro” or not directly, but does intend to publicly showcase how he feels a modern Linux distribution should be built. That will also include building his own new public package manager. He explained that he has “declared war on the industry” and with this latest Linux distribution effort not planning on maintaining the distribution long-term but planning to just publicly highlight how it should be done. He envisions it as sort of like “Clear Linux meets Serpent”. ![Barney Linux distro](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex054/uploads/aerynos/original/1X/559e08ac343359c55ab18f970847af629075a72f.webp) For those wanting to follow along on his journey for publicly chronicling how he feels modern Linux distributions should be built, he’ll be publishing updates via his [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ikeydoherty/recent-activity/all/) and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@ikey.doherty). In his initial video made public today, Ikey outlined the plans as a source-based, fully-optimized, update-friendly and immutable Linux distribution. And leveraging the Rust programming language as much as possible. It’s being developed under the [Barney](https://github.com/TravellingEngineer/barney) name. ---
**Author:** ![khaga87](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex054/user_avatar/aerynos.discourse.group/khaga87/32/135_2.png) [@khaga87](https://aerynos.discourse.group/u/khaga87)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://aerynos.discourse.group/t/ikey-doherty-plans-to-show-how-to-properly-build-a-modern-linux-distro/95/2 "2026-09-05T19:51:36Z")
The aerynOS team wishes Ikey well in his future endeavours ---
**Author:** ![Worsoe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex054/user_avatar/aerynos.discourse.group/worsoe/32/97_2.png) [@Worsoe](https://aerynos.discourse.group/u/Worsoe)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2026, 7:47am UTC](https://aerynos.discourse.group/t/ikey-doherty-plans-to-show-how-to-properly-build-a-modern-linux-distro/95/3 "2026-09-06T07:47:27Z")
Wow, gasolin to the fire at the Phoronix Forum. Thanks Ikey for your incredible talent, without you aerynOS would not be here.