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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
Courageous Budgie (v8) Released!
Hello all! I am pleased to announce version 8 of the Budgie Desktop! We’ve changed many things, with a vastly simplified main menu, cleaner animations and on the whole a much more responsive desktop. This release represents 78 commits with 36 files changed, 3577 insertions and 351 deletions. What’s changed? We added a whole bunch of options for the Budgie Menu to the panel preferences, enabling you to use the traditional layout we used with the Budgie Menu, or indeed stick with the new version that doesn’t employ categories. We’ve visually refreshed the run dialog and menu, with a much simpler and intuitive (not to mention more responsive) feel to everything. Interaction played a huge part this time round, with the menu now sorting items by usage, saving you a lot of time!
November 16, 2014
Repo Changes/Potential Breakage
EDIT: We’ll give people one week to get gnupg installed and then we’ll introduce signing. Please ensure you have updated your installs and install gnupg before Sunday the 25th. Hello all, Our security audit is now complete, and we’ve made a few changes to how we distribute the Evolve OS repository. If you update now you’ll notice that your repo is unable to do so. To remedy the situation you need to import the signing key we now use for the Evolve OS repository, by resetting the repo information:
October 18, 2014
Important: Please do not use current images/installations
Please note that we must currently ask you to not use your Evolve OS installations, until we have completed a thorough security audit of the repositories. There is no reason to panic here, however before we can get to beta 1, and thus closer to production quality, we must ensure the system is secure throughout. The prompting for this post is two fold. During the development of a new security framework, a few flags were raised that some older security issues may not have been addressed. Note that recent issues are, but we want to ensure that going forth with Evolve OS Beta 1 that the systems are secure at every level.
October 8, 2014