We’re happy to be kicking off the new year with the release of our first ISO snapshot, 2017.01.01.0, across our Budgie and MATE editions.
The out-of-the-box experience for shipped applications in Solus has improved, as we’ve worked towards enabling a larger set of features for them.
Alongside those targeted improvements, Solus ships with Firefox 50.1.0 and Thunderbird 45.6.0. Firefox 50.1.0 brings security fixes on top of the various improvements to the Firefox 50 series, such as built-in emojis (those are all the rage these days, right? 🎉) and Thunderbird 45.6.0 delivers various bug and security fixes.
Solus 2017.01.01.0 ships with the latest stable branch of the Linux Kernel, 4.8.15, as well as 13.0.2 of the OpenGL compatible 3D graphics library, Mesa. Via DoFlicky, our Hardware Drivers utility, we provide the latest of the NVIDIA proprietary drivers:
nvidia-glx-driver
- 375.26nvidia-340-glx-driver
(340.xx series) - 340.101nvidia-304-glx-driver
(304.xx series) - 304.134Due to a subtle bug in the Installer, swap partitions were ignored when using custom mount points. This issue has since been resolved.
This release of Solus ships with the latest version of our Software Center, v15, which features numerous improvements and bug fixes.
We have expanded our list of dedicated software categories to include:
We also have an expanded list of 3rd-Party applications that can be installed via the Software Center, such as:
When looking at software information, we now show software licenses.
This release also features a huge set of translations by our community. Our Software Center is now fully translated into:
We also have an almost completely translated Software Center in Arabic and partial translations for Greek and Spanish (Latin America). A huge thank you to all translators, we’re always amazed by your hard work and dedication towards making Solus accessible around the world ❤️
Solus 2017.01.01.0 ships with the latest of our Budgie releases, 10.2.9. This release features a large set of bug fixes and improvements before our focus on Budgie 11 development, such as:
Prior to Budgie 10.2.9, it was easy to accidentally remove a panel. Now, we show a confirmation popover when clicking the removal button, to ensure accidentally panel removal doesn’t occur.
For more information, consult our Budgie 10.2.9 release blog.
Solus 2017.01.01.0 MATE Edition is a continuation of the goal we established with Solus 1.2.1, to deliver a Solus edition that has more traditional desktop experience and optimized for older hardware.
This release ships with the MATE 1.16 series and is the first operating system to ship with the Brisk Menu, our distribution agnostic implementation of a clean, efficient, and modern menu for the MATE Desktop. Brisk Menu enables quick access to installed applications, the Control Center, Software Center, as well as session controls for logging out, locking your system, etc.
We have also renamed our MATE Notification theme from Solus to Slate to reflect our mission of distro agnostic software and such name is used in the Solus MATE Edition. Alongside being available in the Solus repositories, v4 of Slate is also available via its GitHub Page.
libao
evince
gd
libnspr
gstreamer-1.0-plugins-good
firefox
gpgme
libsndfile
libdvdcss
lightdm-gtk-greeter
libnss
fontconfig
gdk-pixbuf
python3
xorg-driver-input-libinput
openvpn
solus-sc
baselayout
moka-icon-theme
libxfont
vlc
gtk2
gtk3
os-installer
libdrm
xorg-driver-video-intel
gvfs
ca-certs
nvidia-340-glx-driver
libmtp
ghostscript
hexchat
transmission
xorg-server
python-requests
gnome-control-center
gnome-online-accounts
findutils
kernel
gspell
popt
libpciaccess
bluez
libinput
libwebp
solus-hardware-config
djvulibre
libxau
pisi
nano
libxi
glibc
poppler
arc-firefox-theme
tdb
nvidia-304-glx-driver
gnome-terminal
gnome-screenshot
systemd
xorg-driver-video-amdgpu
bash
openssh
xmodmap
libass
mesalib
libtiff
xkeyboard-config
libxcb
lsb-release
tzdata
libxpm
libpcre
dracut
expat
nvidia-glx-driver
graphite2
taglib
freetype2
ffmpeg
nautilus
tar
sudo
xorg-driver-video-vmware
cups-filters
gedit
rhythmbox
curl
gcc
libfontenc
budgie-desktop-branding
xorg-driver-video-nouveau
budgie-desktop
gparted
sqlite3
xorg-driver-video-vesa
rhythmbox-alternative-toolbar
llvm
bash-completion
desktop-file-utils
gnome-color-manager
liblcms2
xorg-driver-video-fbdev
xorg-driver-input-wacom
libx11
thunderbird
arc-gtk-theme
xorg-driver-video-radeon
libao
xorg-driver-input-synaptics
gd
libnspr
gstreamer-1.0-plugins-good
firefox
gpgme
libsndfile
libdvdcss
lightdm-gtk-greeter
libnss
fontconfig
gdk-pixbuf
python3
xorg-driver-input-libinput
openvpn
solus-sc
lm_sensors
baselayout
moka-icon-theme
libxfont
vlc
gtk2
gtk3
os-installer
libdrm
xorg-driver-video-intel
ca-certs
nvidia-340-glx-driver
libmtp
ghostscript
hexchat
transmission
xorg-server
mate-desktop
mate-desktop-branding
python-requests
findutils
kernel
popt
libpciaccess
mate-themes
libinput
libwebp
solus-hardware-config
djvulibre
libxau
pisi
nano
libxi
glibc
poppler
arc-firefox-theme
caja
nvidia-304-glx-driver
tdb
systemd
xorg-driver-video-amdgpu
bash
libmateweather
openssh
libass
mesalib
libtiff
atril
xkeyboard-config
libxcb
lsb-release
tzdata
libxpm
libpcre
dracut
expat
nvidia-glx-driver
graphite2
taglib
mate-notification-daemon
freetype2
ffmpeg
xorg-driver-input-evdev
tar
sudo
xorg-driver-video-vmware
cups-filters
rhythmbox
curl
gcc
libfontenc
xorg-driver-video-nouveau
gparted
sqlite3
xorg-driver-video-vesa
gvfs
llvm
bash-completion
desktop-file-utils
liblcms2
xorg-driver-video-fbdev
xorg-driver-input-wacom
libx11
thunderbird
arc-gtk-theme
xorg-driver-video-radeon
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