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Eopkg Is Dead, Long Live Eopkg
Close watchers of our packages repository may have noticed some strange looking items: Initial inclusion of eopkg4-bin Testing the eopkg4-bin package Warning: Minions GIF It’s a long story. Our package manager eopkg is written in Python2. Python2 was originally planned to hit end-of-life all the way back in 2015! So Solus contributors past and present have wrestled with three thorny issues:
January 19, 2024
Welcome to the Solus Devlog
Welcome to the Solus Development Log. The Solus Development Log will be used by Solus Staff and outside contributors to highlight wins and changes in Solus. Keep an eye on this space. The Solus DevLog has been setup to facilitate improved communication with the outside world; wins, significant changes, as well as challenges, within Solus. Solus Staff and contributors are encouraged to use this space. The DevLog has been setup as a separate entity to the Solus Blog to encourage more short form development content that doesn’t require the same level of polish as an official blog post.
January 13, 2024
Solus 4.5 Released
The Solus team is proud to announce the release of Solus 4.5 Resilience. This release brings updated applications and kernels, refreshed software stacks, a new installer, and a new ISO edition featuring the XFCE desktop environment.
January 8, 2024
Solus and Hacktoberfest 2023
We are happy to announce that Solus is participating in this year’s Hacktoberfest ! We have a couple of intertwined goals with this. First, we want to encourage anyone who wants to get involved with Solus. Second, we hope to potentially get some new software packaged, fix a few bugs and improve our documentation along the way.
October 1, 2023
State of Solus - August 2023
This blog post is meant as a follow-up to A New Voyage. We want to discuss what we have accomplished, and what we have planned for the future.
August 7, 2023
Solus 4.4 Released
We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Solus 4.4, a new Solus 4 series release named Harmony. This release delivers new desktop environment updates, software stacks, and hardware enablement.
July 8, 2023
A New Voyage
As a community and a team, we have been through some choppy waters the last few months. After extensive internal discussions involving consultation with contributors past and present, we have charted a new course for long term success which will yield immediate results for users and contributors. As of today, we are deploying a new, more resilient infrastructure and a new governance structure for Solus. What Have We Already DoneInfrastructure & Operations Previously, our build and development infrastructure was hosted on-premises at the Rochester Institute of Technology. This infrastructure was only accessible to (and physically serviceable by) one individual. On January 17th 2023, Solus infrastructure suffered a hardware-level issue that caused a service outage. This outage resulted in almost three months of service downtime, which impacted the ability to update and deliver packages, communicate on the Solus forums, or access the website (which was rehosted on GitHub Pages on February 27th). Alongside this service downtime, there was minor data loss for a limited set of package git repositories on the server which hosted the development tracker (Phabricator).
April 18, 2023
Solus 4.3 Released
We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Solus 4.3, a new Solus 4 “Fortitude” series release. This release delivers new desktop environment updates, software stacks, and hardware enablement.
July 11, 2021
Funding Solus Development
After much anticipation, in this blog post we announce the availability of community funding opportunities.
May 29, 2021
Fashionable GNOME Forty | The Roundup #19
Welcome to The Roundup #19, your bytes of Solus news. In this roundup, we talk about our Budgie 10.5.3 bug fix release, GNOME 40, move to KDE’s Qt5 patch collection, and more!
April 27, 2021