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What's in a name?
Hello all, from the first post on our new domain! Firstly we’d like to apologise for the downtime, confusion and general inconvenience of late. In short we’ve been involved in a naming dispute for the previously named “Evolve OS” project. On April 1st (yep, really) we were contacted regarding a naming dispute over the use of OS. In the past the Evolve OS project had applied for a trademark in the name of “Evolve OS”, which was going through a 2 month period in which those opposing the mark can file their objection.
April 12, 2015
Solus Beta 1.1 Released
The Solus Project team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Solus Operating System Beta 1.1. This release focused on stability and bringing the core systems up to scratch. Please note that as this is an update to Solus Operating System Beta 1 (Quality Cycle), changes that are intended for beta2 will not be present (such as UEFI support). Also note Solus is only available as a 64-bit system.
March 16, 2015
Beta 1 Released
The Evolve OS team is proud to announce the release of Evolve OS Beta 1. Evolve OS is an independent Linux distribution featuring the Budgie Desktop, aimed at desktop users. We’re cutting the marketing speak and getting right to the point, we want to give you something you can just use, and just works. Feature Improvements Evolve OS now features a preliminary version of evolve-sc, the Evolve OS Software Center. It’s aim is to simplify the updating and installation of software, providing a simple interface to get the job done. Given its introductory status, we’d appreciate any and all feedback!
January 26, 2015
Important: Repo Changes
Hello all! Please note that to accommodate a more stable development path in the future, we have had to alter the layout and position of our package repository. This means that if you download a current ISO, you will need to change the repositories post-install to ensure you continue to receive updates. Note that we now push to an “unstable” repo, and quite regularly, before resyncing the packages into “main”. You’ll need to immediately update your installation to ensure the security and stability of it, as well as ensure you keep up to date with new features! 🙂 The update from
January 16, 2015
Networking Breakage in Evolve OS
Hello all, I’m sorry to report that yesterday a broken NetworkManager package was pushed to the repositories, which may have resulted in some of you now having no networking. The package has been reverted to an earlier snapshot, however if you have been affected there is a way to revert the damage. Sideloading I have provided permanent copies of the .eopkg’s on our server for the purpose of sideloading, you can download the appropriate .eopkg from here: https://solus-project.com/NM/network-manager-0.9.8.6-9-1-x86_64.eopkg
December 15, 2014
Thunderbird 31.3.0 Now Available
Evolve OS users should note that Thunderbird 31.3.0 is now available in the repositories. To update please issue the following command in your favourite terminal emulator (i.e. GNOME Terminal) sudo eopkg up
December 13, 2014
Firefox 34.0.5 Now Available
Evolve OS users should note that Firefox 34.0.5 is now available in the repositories. To update please issue the following command in your favourite terminal emulator (i.e. GNOME Terminal): sudo eopkg up
December 13, 2014
Linux Kernel 3.17.6 Now Available
Users of Evolve OS should now update their installations to receive the latest stable Linux kernel package. To update, simply issue the following command using your favourite terminal: sudo eopkg up
December 8, 2014
Happy Birthday, Budgie!
As of today, Budgie now one year old! The very first commit was made to the git repository on the 7th of December, 2013. What started out as a simple quest to satisfy my own personal needs for a desktop, has evolved over the last year with the help of our fantastic community and contributors. Here’s what Budgie used to look like back then Back then, we had no proper applet support, and you couldn’t even change the location of the applets or panels. In fact, it was a bit of a hard-coded mess.
December 7, 2014
Evolve OS/Budgie Fund Raiser
Hello all! I hope you’re all enjoying the new release of Courageous Budgie! I wanted to take a few minutes to announce a new fundraiser/donations drive initiative for the Evolve OS Projects (Distro/Desktop/etc). To cut a short story long, I haven’t been able to put as much time as I would have liked into developing Evolve OS and its projects over the last couple of months. This is mostly because I have to utilise my spare time to make a little extra income here and there.
November 16, 2014