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Software Center Progresses | The Roundup #6
Welcome to The Roundup #6, your bytes of Solus news. In this roundup, we’re talking about the progress being made on the Software Center as well as a peek at upcoming improvements to Budgie.
June 26, 2018
Software Center Redesign | The Roundup #5
Welcome to The Roundup #5, your bytes of Solus news. In this roundup, we’re talking about our in-progress redesign of the Software Center!
March 9, 2018
Exploring Solus Architecture
In this post we’ll be exploring the Solus architecture, going over some of the key differences separating it from other projects. Do note this is a technical article, and doesn’t encompass every area of Solus for the sake of brevity.
February 15, 2018
Plasma and Solus 4 Updates | The Roundup #4
Welcome to The Roundup #4, your bytes of Solus news. In this roundup, we’re talking updates to Kernels, Plasma, various items for Solus 4, and more!
February 14, 2018
MATE, Plasma, and Python 3 | The Roundup #3
Welcome to The Roundup #3, your bytes of Solus news. In this roundup, we’re talking MATE Desktop 1.20 upgrade, Plasma updates, Python 3 upgrade, and an update on boot optimizations.
February 7, 2018
Upgrades, Cleanups, and Optimizations | The Roundup #2
Welcome to The Roundup #2, your bytes of Solus news. In this roundup, we’re talking stack upgrades, repo cleanup efforts, LDM updates, Plasma Early Access ISO, and planned boot optimizations! Stack and Package Upgrades The Solus Core and Community Maintainers Teams have been hard at work upgrading a multitude of packages across various stacks in the last week. For starters, we upgraded opencv, the computer vision and machine learning library used for multimedia applications like digikam and nomacs, to 3.4.0. OpenCV 3.4.0 has a load of optimizations for its forward pass DNN module as well as caching improvements.
January 30, 2018
Linux Driver Management 1.0 Released | The Roundup #1
We’re proud to announce the release of Linux Driver Management 1.0, a reworked implementation with the focus on being an agnostic, GObject-style library for the detection and enumeration of devices, with bindings for popular languages such as C, JS via GJS, Python, and Vala, as well as support for matching devices to driver packages. LDM 1.0 is no longer tied to package management specifics and is instead designed to be used as a library (-lldm) that developers can integrate into their software centers and driver management systems to provide detection capabilities. The library can be viewed as being similar to other older efforts like Jockey, however it goes further and abstracts subsystems to enable automatically matching via modaliases and device classes, including:
January 26, 2018
Linux Steam Integration 0.7.2 Released
Linux Steam Integration 0.7.2 is now here. This release introduces many enhancements and new features, including initial snapd support and a new workaround for the Unity3D “black screen of nope” bug.
December 19, 2017
This Week In Solus - Install #48
Welcome to This Week in Solus, install #48. Oh Snap! This has been an absolutely incredible week for our Snap support. In a matter of a few days, we’ve gone from having no snap gaming runtime to one that’s been battle tested (quite literally) against over 70 titles, with over 60 that are known to be working.
November 12, 2017
Brisk Menu 0.5.0 Released
Brisk Menu 0.5.0 is here ! This is the first of 2 planned releases for the course of the next few weeks. Brisk Menu is a collaborative project between Solus and Ubuntu MATE . Huge thanks to Ubuntu MATE for their ongoing sponsorship of the Brisk Menu, as part of a unified effort to bring modern, first-class options to the MATE desktop.
November 2, 2017