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Wow, cool to see it still exists. I used it for a while in the distant past but hadn't heard anything about it in years.
I was thinking of trying it out, but there aren't packages of the new release for any of my favorite distros. Their downloads page recommends downloading a bunch of components as separate tarballs and manually building them in the right order, which is more work than I'd do just to try it. It also links to their packaging status page, which was last updated 493 days ago and has a table of seven distros - which does not include a single popular desktop distro. On repology i see the new release is actually packaged in Fedora 35 and a few others, at least; maybe I'll try it there in a VM sometime.