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| 2015-10-30 |
NEW • Development Release: Solus 1.0 RC1 |
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Ikey Doherty has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Solus 1.0, a Linux distribution featuring a custom desktop environment called "Budgie" and a package manager named "eopkg" (forked from Pardus Linux): "The Solus project is happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of the Solus operating system. Budgie has been updated to improve stability and is a stability and maintenance update prior to the landing of the new Budgie rewrite and Raven (our notification center), landing in a future update. DoFlicky, the new driver management tool of Solus, is now available for testing as of this release candidate. DoFlicky will be accompanied by installable drivers for broadcom-sta, NVIDIA 304, 340xx, 352. With our driver management software landing, we will integrate 32-bit 'multilib' support after ensuring there are no further issues with DoFlicky. Due to the quality of the proprietary AMD drivers (fglrx), we will not be providing them at this moment in time. We will provide them as an update after RC1." See the release announcement for further information and screenshots. Download (SHA256) the live DVD image from here: Solus-RC1.iso (739MB, torrent). |
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| Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and its flagship edition uses the Budgie desktop environment. Budgie was originally developed-in-house, but is now maintained as a separate project by the Buddies of Budgie team. Solus is also available in Plasma, Xfce, and GNOME editions. The distribution is available for 64-bit computers only.
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| 2024-10-15 |
Distribution Release: Solus 4.6 |
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Solus is an independent, rolling release distribution which uses Budgie as its default desktop environment. The project has published a new snapshot, Solus 4.6, which makes changes to the multimedia applications and includes a merged /usr directory. "All our editions feature: Firefox 131.0.3, LibreOffice 24.2.5.2, Thunderbird 128.3.1. For audio and video multimedia playback, we offer software out-of-the-box that caters specifically to our desired experience for each edition. Budgie and GNOME editions ship with Rhythmbox for audio playback, with the latest release of the Alternate Toolbar extension to provide a more modern user experience. Budgie and GNOME ship with Celluloid for video playback. Xfce ships with Parole for multimedia playback. Plasma ships with Elisa for audio playback and Haruna for video playback. Over the summer, the Solus team has been tackling the Usr-Merge conundrum; read Evan’s excellent blog post for the full story. We have now reached the end of Stage 3 on our rollout plan: All users with an updated system now have a Usr-Merge’d system. Any users that create a fresh installation with today’s ISOs will also have a merged system." Additional information is provided in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): Solus-Budgie-Release-2024-10-14.iso (2,682MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-GNOME-Release-2024-10-14.iso (2,916MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-Plasma-Release-2024-10-14.iso (2,925MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2024-01-09 |
Distribution Release: Solus 4.5 |
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Solus is an independent Linux distribution featuring the eopkg package manager and the flagship edition runs the Budgie desktop environment. The latest release of Solus, version 4.5, introduces a new desktop spin for Xfce (which is considered to be in beta status) and switches to the Calamares system installer to get the system up and running. "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. With Solus 4.5 comes a new installation experience using the Calamares installer. This enables easier installation using filesystems like BTRFS, specifying your own partition layout right in the installer, and it’s a major step in migrating away from Python 2, which the old os-installer was written in. A ton of work has gone into the new installation experience, and we are glad to finally release it to everyone!" A complete list of changes and an overview of key package updates can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): Solus-4.5-Budgie.iso (2,534MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.5-GNOME.iso (2,725MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.5-Plasma.iso (2,579MB, SHA256, signature, torrent).
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| 2023-07-08 |
Distribution Release: Solus 4.4 |
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The project has released its first new stable release in two years. The rolling release's latest version, Solus 4.4, offers four desktop editions: Budgie, KDE Plasma, MATE and GNOME. "All our editions feature: Firefox 114.0.1, LibreOffice 7.5.3.2, Thunderbird 102.12.0, For audio and video multimedia playback, we offer software out-of-the-box that caters specifically to our desired experience for each edition. Budgie, GNOME, and MATE editions all ship with Rhythmbox for audio playback, with the latest release of the Alternate Toolbar extension to provide a more modern user experience. Budgie and GNOME ship with Celluloid for video playback. MATE ships with VLC for video playback. Plasma ships with Elisa for audio playback and Haruna for video playback. Hardware and Kernel Enablement: This release of Solus ships with Linux kernel 6.3.8, enabling us to provide support for a broader range of hardware, such as: Secure Boot support. See our documentation for enablement." The release announcement has additional information. Download (pkglist): Solus-4.4-Budgie.iso (2,315MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.4-Plasma.iso (2,475MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.4-GNOME.iso (2,512MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.4-MATE.iso (2,292MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2021-07-11 |
Distribution Release: Solus 4.3 |
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Solus is an independent, rolling-release, desktop Linux distribution. The project is available in four desktop flavours, the primary one being the project's custom Budgie graphical user interface. Its latest release, Solus 4.3, features a number of improvements to multimedia and hardware support, as well as an update to Budgie. "Solus 4.3 ships with version 0.9.0 of the dav1d AV1 decoder, which should provide a large boost to high-bitdepth decoding on AVX2 supported CPUs. We also ship with PulseAudio 14.2, which fixes a bug related to unplug event handling. Solus ships with the latest release of our flagship desktop environment, Budgie 10.5.3. This features GNOME 40 stack support alongside all the fixes and quality-of-life improvements listed below. We welcome you to check out the full release notes listed above. Budgie 10.5.3 introduces fixes to Budgie panel applets, Raven, and various window state tracking. Drop use of Queue and Cancellable in Raven's NotificationView. Instead of using a Queue, just update a reference to a NotificationWindow since we only really cared about the head of the Queue to begin with." Additional information is provided in the distribution's release announcement. Download (pkglist): Solus-4.3-Budgie.iso (1,857MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.3-GNOME.iso (2,073MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.3-MATE.iso (1,838MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.3-Plasma.iso (2,042MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2021-02-03 |
Distribution Release: Solus 4.2 |
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Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and a custom desktop environment called "Budgie", developed in-house. The project's latest version is 4.2 which includes package updates across key components. The Budgie desktop has gain improvements and features a new system tray and better support for desktop icons. "We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Solus 4.2, a new Solus 4 Fortitude series release. This release delivers new desktop environment updates, software stacks, and hardware enablement. All of our editions feature: Firefox 85.0, LibreOffice 7.0.4.2, Thunderbird 78.6.1. For audio and video multimedia playback, we offer software out-of-the-box that caters specifically to our desired experience for each edition. Budgie, GNOME, and MATE editions all ship with Rhythmbox for audio playback, with the latest release of the Alternate Toolbar extension to provide a more modern user experience. Budgie and GNOME ship with GNOME MPV for video playback. MATE ships with VLC for video playback. Plasma ships with Elisa for audio playback and SMPlayer for video playback." The release announcement offers further information. Download (pkglist): Solus-4.2-Budgie.iso (1,804MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.2-GNOME.iso (2,064MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.2-MATE.iso (1,776MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.2-Plasma.iso (1,904MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2020-01-25 |
Distribution Release: Solus 4.1 |
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Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and a custom desktop environment called "Budgie", developed in-house. The project's latest release is Solus 4.1 which offers many updates and should provide a faster install process thanks to using a different format for compression: "Solus 4.1 is the first ISO release to feature the use of Zstandard (zstd) compression for the SquashFS images. Compared to the xz compressed ISOs from previous releases, the ztsd compressed size is a little bit larger. But as a result, the decompression times are significantly improved (3-4x), leading to a much faster installation process than ever previously achieved. In most cases, you can expect to spend more time filling out the questions in the installation wizard than it will actually take to copy everything to disk. We hope you are just as surprised as we were at just how fast this process has become." The project's release announcement offers further details. Download: Solus-4.1-Budgie.iso (1,692MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.1-GNOME.iso (1,873MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.1-MATE.iso (1,662MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.1-Plasma.iso (1,825MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2019-03-18 |
Distribution Release: Solus 4.0 |
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Joshua Strobl has announced the release of Solus 4.0, an independently-developed desktop Linux distribution featuring the simple but efficient Budgie desktop (separate editions with GNOME and MATE desktop environments are also available) and a custom package management called eopkg. From the release announcement: "We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Solus 4 'Fortitude', a new major release of the Solus operating system. This release delivers a brand new Budgie experience, updated sets of default applications and theming, and hardware enablement. All our editions feature: Firefox 65.0.1, LibreOffice 6.2.1, Rhythmbox 3.4.3 with the latest release of the Alternate Toolbar extension, Thunderbird 60.5.2. Our Budgie and GNOME editions ship with GNOME MPV 0.16 and our MATE Edition ships with VLC 3.0.6. This release of Solus ships with Linux kernel 4.20.16, enabling us to provide support for AMD Picasso and Raven2 APUs, AMD Vega20 and broader Vega10 enablement, as well as improved support for Intel Coffee Lake and Ice Lake CPUs. Furthermore, Linux kernel 4.20 expands our support for other hardware devices, such as touchpad support for the Lenovo IdeaPad 130-15IKB and 330-15ARR." Download links (pkglist): Solus-4.0-Budgie.iso (1,430MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, Solus-4.0-GNOME.iso (1,446MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.0-MATE.iso (1,405MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2017-08-15 |
Distribution Release: Solus 3 |
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Solus is an independently-developed desktop Linux distribution. While the distribution is available in three editions (Budgie, GNOME and MATE), the project is perhaps best known for its work showcasing the Budgie desktop environment on a rolling-release platform. The project's latest release, Solus 3, features Firefox 55, LibreOffice 5.4, and a cutting-edge version of the Linux kernel: "This new major version of Solus is now based on the latest stable branch of the Linux kernel, 4.12.7. This switch enables various hardware improvements for the latest AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA hardware. Users of the existing Linux-LTS kernel will continue to receive updates indefinitely, with the next major update to this branch scheduled to land in or around September. Furthermore, we've enabled AppArmor LSM by default to provide functionality for snapd confining, as well as the introduction of a fully functioning Linux Security Module within our kernel builds." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): Solus-3-Budgie.iso (1,174MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, Solus-3-GNOME.iso (1,268MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-3-MATE.iso (1,280MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2017-04-18 |
Distribution Release: Solus 2017.04.18.0 |
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Joshua Strobl has announced the availability of an updated release of Solus, an independent, desktop-focused Linux distribution. Besides the standard edition featuring the Budgie desktop (developed in house), this version also comes in a MATE variant as well as a brand-new GNOME 3.24 flavour: "We're proud to announce our second ISO image snapshot, 2017.04.18.0, across our Budgie and MATE editions, as well as our new GNOME edition. This snapshot is the culmination of months of work across nearly every aspect of our operating system, ranging from multiple under-the-hood upgrades and changes to improvements to our desktop experiences. This snapshot is the first to deliver bulletproof boot management out-of-the-box, leveraging clr-boot-manager to enable the maintenance and garbage collection of kernels, as well as configuration of the bootloader. Furthermore, clr-boot-manager enables the retention of known-working kernels, so you can always roll back to a prior kernel." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and screenshots. Download (pkglist): Solus-2017.04.18.0-Budgie.iso (1,145MB, SHA256, signature), Solus-2017.04.18.0-GNOME.iso (1,158MB, SHA256, signature), Solus-2017.04.18.0-MATE.iso (1,181MB, SHA256, signature). |
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