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Budgie 10.2.9 Released
We’re happy to announce the release of Budgie 10.2.9. This is solely a bug fix release, tackling some niggling issues before our focus shifts to development of Budgie 11. Widgets Numerous fixes have been made to our various panel widgets. Icon Tasklist Thanks to investigative work that occurred during our development of Brisk Menu , an issue with the spinning wheel that would persist for 30 seconds during the launching of an application has been resolved. Some previous hacks have been eliminated and we now use per-button GdkAppLaunchContext and correctly “turn off” the notify via Gdk to stop the spinning wheel.
December 16, 2016
This Week in Solus - Install #40
Welcome to This Week in Solus, install #40. ISO Snapshot On the last This Week in Solus, I highlighted our roadmap, which includes our upcoming ISO snapshot. This ISO snapshot will feature the latest kernel, which at the time of this writing, is looking like 4.9. Additionally, since the writing of TWIS #39, we have landed an upgraded libinput and xorg libinput driver, thus those will see inclusion in the ISO as well.
December 11, 2016
Solus To Be Unixstickers' December Beneficiary
Every time you purchase merchandise from Unixstickers, including merchandise for Solus , a portion of the proceeds goes to the respective project. Additionally, each month Unixstickers chooses a different project to which they donate an additional portion of their total revenue towards. We’re grateful that Unixstickers has chosen Solus to be December’s beneficiary. We intend on utilizing the donations provided by Unixstickers ’ donation program towards the cost of a new package server in the United States, meaning the opportunity for faster update speeds and software downloading!
December 1, 2016
This Week in Solus - Install #39
Welcome to This Week in Solus, install #39. Announcing Partnership with Unixstickers We recently announced our partnership with Unixstickers to provide high-quality Solus stickers for our community and fans. If you have yet to read about it, click here . Roadmap We know many of you have been curious to hear our plans for the future, now that Solus 1.2.1, and today we’re ready to share some details.
November 15, 2016
Solus Announces Partnership with Unixstickers
The Solus project is happy to announce a partnership with Unixstickers , providers of high quality apparel and accessories for operating systems, programming languages, and software. This quality craftsmanship and their continuous support of the open source community made it the obvious choice for us while determining the best provider for Solus-related merchandise. Unixstickers is making available Solus stickers to enable our community and fans to show their passion for Solus on their gadgets and gizmos. When buying from Unixstickers, not only are you getting some slick merch, but a portion of the proceeds is given Solus too ! These stickers will be shipping internationally and accessible via both the Unixstickers website as well as the Store link in the navigation on the page.
November 15, 2016
This Week in Solus - install #38
Welcome to This Week in Solus, installation #38. Lots have happened since the last one, so let’s get started. Budgie Last week, Ikey migrated Budgie Desktop to be its own GitHub organization, viewable here . This is a reflection of the direction we want to take Budgie, which is moving from a monolithic architecture to a modular one, breaking up Budgie into individually components, empowering us to independently develop, iterate and release components of Budgie.
November 1, 2016
Solus 1.2.1 Shannon Released
The Solus project is proud to announce the availability of Solus 1.2.1, delivered in the form of our main edition, which provides an unrivaled Budgie experience, as well as a new and welcomed addition to the Solus family, Solus 1.2.1 MATE edition. While Solus 1.2.1 is the first release to have a new addition, it is also the last of our traditional releases as we shift towards the ISO snapshot model , which better reflects our agility and iteration speed.
October 19, 2016
This Week in Solus -- Install #37
Welcome to the 37th installation of This Week in Solus. Linux 4.8.1 This week Linux 4.8.1 landed in Solus, in addition to numerous changes and improvements, such as: We enabled CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY which prevents a lot of heap overflow exploits (so a further level of protection against 0-day exploits in the future until patches come forward). You can read more here .
October 9, 2016
This Week in Solus -- Install #36
Welcome to the 36th installation of This Week in Solus. MATE We’re happy to report the landing of MATE 1.16.0 in the Solus unstable repository. This MATE release improved GTK3 support and improvements to MATE applications such as: caja now will always show the right-arrow button, now uses GtkAboutDialog. engrampa now having p7zip-rar support mate-polkit dropping GTK2 code. mate-terminal dropping GTK2 code and moving to using GtkAboutDialog. Hats off to the MATE community for the fantastic release. For their full release announcement, click here .
September 26, 2016
Budgie 10.2.7 Released
We’re thrilled to announce the release of Budgie 10.2.7, the last release in our 10.2 series that aims to resolve a multitude of issues as well as land some user experience improvements. Budgie Applet Improvements We’ve made numerous improvements to Budgie applets for 10.2.7. Consistent Actions Our Budgie panel applets used a mix of left and right click. This is no longer the case, with all actions utilizing left-click, and we’ve introduced more popovers to enable quick access to settings exposed elsewhere on your system, such as launching power settings via the battery / power applet.
September 10, 2016