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Solus 1.0 Released
The Solus Project is proud to announce the release of the first version of its operating system, Solus, on 27th of December, 2015. Solus 1.0 is codenamed Shannon after the longest river in Ireland. Solus 1.0 is the result of over eight months of work, coalesced from over a dozen contributors, over 2000 package builds, a rewrite of the premier desktop environment Budgie, and more. Solus Solus is a Linux-based operating system built from scratch for the modern desktop and targeting the x86_64 architecture.
December 27, 2015
This Week in Solus -- Install #15
Welcome to the 15th Installation of This Week in Solus. Let’s just get right into it. 1.0 Release We will be releasing Solus 1.0 on the 25th. Happy holidays everyone! We anticipate the final ISO will have: Skylake enabled, with the latest 4.3 kernel AMDGPU driver support libinput xorg driver replacing syntaptics and evdev input drivers Intel + nouveau packages will be synced with latest git snapshots. Budgie Rewrite to replace Budgie nvidia 304 will be also declared sufficiently flaky at this point.
December 20, 2015
This Week in Solus -- Install #14
Welcome to the 14th installation of This Week in Solus. Budgie Next Work has progressed well on the rewrite of Budgie. The rewrite is now integrated into GNOME Session and uses its phase initialization system, so Budgie starts in the panel initialization phase and the window manager in the WindowManager phase. Information such as whether dark theme is enabled, your widget theme, and icon theme are now integrated into Raven. Also, work on the panel editor has now begun. A screenshot is available below.
December 13, 2015
This Week In Solus -- Install #13
Welcome to This Week in Solus, Installation #13. Wait, isn’t this supposed to be an unlucky number? Daily Images Let’s kick off TWIS with talk about Daily Images. As you might have known, we released Daily Image 0.201549.3.0 last Wednesday, but what you might not have known is we also released 0.2015.49.5.0. That’s right, two images this week.
December 6, 2015
Daily ISO 0.201549.3.0 Released
The Solus Project is happy to announce the release of a new Daily ISO, 0.201549.3.0. GDM The Solus Project now uses GDM instead of LightDM. New Installation Process The Solus Project now uses gnome-initial-setup to vastly simplify the installation process of Solus. The majority of the process is now post-install, where you setup your user, locale and keyboard settings, timezone, and optionally online accounts.
December 2, 2015
This Week in Solus -- Install #12
Welcome to This Week in Solus, Installation #12. You know how I’ve said before “I think this is the biggest TWIS I’ve done”? Well, just consider that restated, again. Deal with it. Budgie Next There has been a lot of user experience work done on Budgie Next this week. Thanks to the fantastic work (as you can see below) done by Horst3180, we have a user experience design for Raven that enables us to:
November 29, 2015
This Week in Solus #11
Welcome to This Week in Solus, Installation #11. Budgie Next Considerable progress has been around Budgie Next. Lots of work this week was spent with Raven, which now sports the following: MPRIS support for media playback support Volume changing and input/output device switching and toggling. Budgie Next also now abides by your primary monitor, which should eliminate issues that multi-monitor users can have of Budgie rendering on your non-primary display when you have a secondary monitor plugged in.
November 22, 2015
This Week in Solus -- Install #10
Welcome to This Week in Solus, Installation #10. Budgie Next The rewrite of Budgie has seen some considerable progress and development that has been accelerated by the need to resolve issues that arose during the GNOME 3.18 Stack upgrade. As some of you may be aware, a keyboard issue has arisen since the Stack upgrade where pressing certain numbers on your keyboard will control font scaling instead. This issue specifically affects users of the Budgie desktop environment. For workaround information, click here .
November 15, 2015
This Week in Solus -- Install #9
Welcome to This Week in Solus, Installation #9. Budgie Next Ikey has posted a “quick and dirty” video of Budgie Next stuff to show people the progress that has been made and how glitch-free it is compared to the “Old Budgie” (the bottom panel in the video). GNOME Stack 3.18 Updates We are currently in the process of updating the GNOME Stack to 3.18. A significant portion of the GNOME Stack and applications have been updated at this time and we are currently in the process of validating Budgie integration into the updated stack as well as replacing budgie-session with gnome-session.
November 8, 2015
This Week in Solus -- Install #8
Welcome to This Week in Solus, Installation #8. Release Candidate 1 We were happy to announce Solus 1.0 Release Candidate 1 last Thursday. We have gotten an immense amount of feedback since then, bug reports to tackle, and lots of new package requests! We also can confidently say that we reached over 2000 downloads of the RC1 ISO, across reported mirrors and BitTorrent, which is fantastic for a Release Candidate!
November 1, 2015