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Solus Daily ISO: 02/07/2015
The most recent daily is now available for download. In this snapshot we’ve concentrated on enabling. As such we’re now actively collecting powertop reports and optimising power consumption of Solus systems. Main changes: Initial VPN support (openconnect ) is in the repos We’ve migrated to NetworkManager 1.0.2 to enable usage of a more modern openconnect for Cisco AnyConnect based VPNs More hostname changes were introduced , enforcing the use of /etc/hosts via nsswitch. This is a temporary solution, and will be replaced with a stateless mechanism soon. Last UEFI related issues fixed inside installer Kernel changes : Tracing enabled for powertop, INTEL_IDLE replaced X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO, BPF enabled, and BGRT for boot time ACPI graphics handovers. “Beta 2” label dropped , now referred to internally as “Betaish” :] See our first daily ISO announcement for instructions on writing this 64-bit, Hybrid, UEFI-compatible ISO to USB medium. Remember, unetbootin is not supported!
July 3, 2015
Solus Daily ISO: 01/07/2015
The most recent daily ISO was uploaded last night, and features some small, but noticeable, improvements. Broadwell support validated SNA (Intel driver acceleration method, the fastest one) now working fully on Broadwell and Haswell, due to syncing with xf86-video-intel git Support added for NVME block devices (NVM Express, SSD over PCIe) Auditing disabled in the kernel – ensuring less console spam and less SSD writes Support added for additional, common, Realtek WiFi chipsets (RTL8192EE and RTL8723BE) libdrm updated to 2.4.62 mesa updated to 10.5.8 The featured image in this post was taken during hardware validation of Broadwell, and was validated on the Intel NUC (NUC5i7RYH) with Iris 6100 graphics.
July 2, 2015
Solus Daily ISO: 30/06/2015
This is our second daily ISO, which features more hardware support, a slight visual refresh, along with some core bug fixes. This came a few hours late due to some technical issues, an ISO for July 1st will be issued this evening. (Timezones are relative. :]) Main changes: UEFI dual-boot issues resolved Issue with network hostname change preventing application launches resolved Updated firmware package, supporting more devices (Intel WiFi, Radeon GPU, Tegra GPU) 4.1.1 LTS kernel Trial-run of Arc GTK theme See our first daily ISO announcement for instructions on writing this 64-bit, Hybrid, UEFI-compatible ISO to USB medium. Remember, unetbootin is not supported!
July 1, 2015
Patreon now at $165 a month!
Well guys, a quick update on our Patreon campaign. Thanks to your awesome support, we now have 8 awesome individuals supporting our project at $165.00 per month! Absolutely amazing, and we can’t thank you guys enough. For the first time in our history, our running costs are covered! Our next target is $500 a month. With that, we can invest in hardware to perform more extensive testing and enabling. We can focus our energies on vastly reducing power consumption across the board by buying proper equipment, as well as further AMD GPU enabling, printer enabling, etc. With your help we can get there, and as always, the benefits directly affect you, the users. Together, we make Solus awesome!
June 30, 2015
First Unstable Daily ISO
We’re enormously happy to be shipping our very first daily ISO today! In a nut-shell, its built directly from our latest unstable development material, meaning its brand spanking new, and all yours for the humble price of $0.00! This ISO is configured to continue using our unstable software sources, and as such is not meant for production usage. However, we’ll be uploading ISOs every day now, in a fully transparent development process. This enables you, our awesome users, to give us real time feedback on breakages, feature enhancements, and see tangible results every single day.
June 29, 2015
Status Update
Hello all. It’s high time for a status update and I’d like to let you all know where we’re at, why there is a delay on releases, and how long things are going to take. TL;DR: Don’t panic, s’all good.
June 18, 2015
Solus Operating System Beta 2
The Solus Project team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Solus Operating System Beta 2. This release is available for 64-bit systems, and is now available for EFI machines.
May 17, 2015
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