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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
Announcing 1.0 Release Candidate 1
The Solus Project is happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of the Solus operating system. We would like to thank all of our community members for helping make this release possible. Together we have discovered and resolved a plethora of bugs, improved software, and ensured that the user experience under Solus is better than it has ever been before. Budgie Budgie has been updated to improve stability and is a stability and maintenance update prior to the landing of the new Budgie rewrite and Raven (our notification center), landing in a future update.
October 29, 2015
This Week in Solus -- Install #7
Welcome to This Week in Solus, Installation #7. As you may (or may not) have noticed, this blog post is in a different location. As of this blog post, these installations are official. If you want to see previous installs, you can read them by going here . Project Announcements Core Team Roles We have some project announcements to make this week. Roles and titles have been provided to core team members.
October 25, 2015
Solus Fundraiser!
Hello all! We’re pleased to announce this experiment, a fund raiser leading up to the launch of Solus Operating System v1, October 1st. We’d like to see if we can raise $1,000 (US) in the next couple of weeks. The Whats There’s some bits and pieces we need to get together before the release comes out, including (but not limited to): Printer/Scanner combo (for enabling) AMD/ATi GPU (enabling) Bluetooth audio hardware (likely a headset, again for audio/bt stack enabling) Those bits aside, we’ve all been growing a bit nervous lately at the bandwidth situation. Our packages have to exist in a primary source (packages.solus-project.com), which is kept secure and maintained by one release manager, and then propagated to other mirrors. In the last few months we’re seeing a lot more traffic come by, and users are beginning to suffer, waiting on increasing update times. Not to mention we’re now going through several terabytes of bandwidth a month now as a project, and this is constantly growing.
August 23, 2015