Solus is built by a diverse team from around the world.

Bryan has been a Linux user for over 15 years, remembering the days of booting from floppy disks and ordering Live CDs from foreign countries. While he spends his working hours doing research for his PhD Dissertation, he spends many evenings and weekends building tools and packages for Solus.

First getting involved with programming and Linux in early 2008, Josh spends most of his time working on his start-up and advocating for open source software. Josh first joined the project back in early 2015 in the EvolveOS days, originally working to expand the vast support of software in the repository, broading his roles to communications, developing Solus GNOME Edition, and now handling Budgie desktop development.

Starting at the age of 3 as a gamer on the Commodore 64, Peter now has no time for games. He started dabbling with linux back in 1998. After reading all about Solus after the 1.1 release he immediately prepped some packages and jumped across. What was most interesting was the ability to create change and improvements without all the red tape. He now spends his days on Phabricator while eating sandwiches.

Had a short intermezzo with Linux (Ubuntu 8.04) in his young age but figured out he was not ready for it. The years passed and he got interested again in using a Linux install (because of Windows 10). He tried some different Linux distros but was not happy with them until he tried Solus 3, he fell in love with the OS and the community and got involved with packaging.

Joey's first real experience with Linux was when CyanogenMod dropped support for his crappy Sony smartphone and thus he decided to revitalize support for it, teaming up with other amateur developers to once again provide unofficial up-to-date builds for similar devices. Solus initially attracted him as it provided unmatched performance for his low-powered chromebook, with some of the applications not being in the Solus repo he decided to learn the packaging progress and gradually increased his contributions until he was asked to become a Global Maintainer. In real life, Joey has finished university and is deciding what he wants to do with his life; enjoying cycling all around South Wales (when it’s not raining) for it’s natural beauty.

When Pierre-Yves got his new computer, he decided to give the freshly released Solus MATE 2017.01.01.0 a try for a few days, but it magically operated and he never stopped using it. He quickly got involved in Solus, although he had no other experience other than being a casual Linux user, thanks to the accessibility, help, and kindness of the Core Team. He really enjoys helping Solus and its community.

Having been a Linux user since the last millennium or so, Rune got started with Solus MATE on an old Core 2 Duo and from then it sort of grew to the point where he now maintains the Solus Samba and Kodi packages. In his spare time he enjoys hanging out with his cats, cycling, working out, long board cruising, tinkering with and fixing up old hardware, cars, motorbikes and mopeds and read up on Mechanical Engineering theory, Computer Science/Programming and all things technology related. He loves dark chocolate, can cook up a mean Italian meat sauce and probably ought to drink more Tea.