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Developer
  
Ikey Doherty

Source model
  
Open source

OS family
  
Unix-like

Available in
  
multilingual


Initial release
  
May 9, 2012; 4 years ago (2012-05-09)

Latest release
  
Rolling ISO snapshot / January 1, 2017; 2 months ago (2017-01-01)

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Solus is an independent desktop Linux distribution using the Budgie desktop environment and eopkg for package management.

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History

Solus was first released in 2011 as "SolusOS" and initially used Debian as its codebase. Solus later had a complete rewrite, focusing on desktop usability and optimization.

SolusOS 1.0

In 2012, SolusOS 1.0, code-named "Eveline" was released. It originally featured the GNOME 2 desktop and came with a complete set of multimedia plugins by default and extended selection of default applications for everyday tasks.

SolusOS 1.1

Version 1.1 was released on June 1, 2012 and brought an updated custom kernel as well as newer software versions for the applications.

SolusOS 1.2

August 17, 2012 saw the point release of version 1.2 and introduced a non-PAE edition for older computers with less random-access memory.

SolusOS 2

The next release, SolusOS 2, was planned to be built from-scratch using GNOME 3.10 as its default desktop environment. It was previously reported that it was going to be using Consort, a forked and patched version of GNOME Flashback (the GNOME 3 Fallback Mode) first introduced with the Alpha 7 version of SolusOS 2. that behaves like GNOME 2, thus enabling existing users a smooth transition to the new desktop. SolusOS 2 was developed as a Long Term Support release, so several alpha releases were issued and tested for stability and usability. Testers were encouraged to request applets and utilities.

In 2013, SolusOS was "put down".

"Evolve OS"/Solus 1.0

In 2014, development was resumed under the name "Evolve OS", which due to trademark issues was changed to "Solus". Solus 1.0 "Shannon" was released 27 December 2015.

Solus 1.1

Solus 1.1 was released February 2, 2016.

Solus 1.2

Solus 1.2 was released on Jun 20th 2016.

Solus 1.2.1

Solus 1.2.1 was released on October 19, 2016. This is the last fixed point release of Solus and all future releases will be based on the snapshot model (the OS is now following the rolling-release model).

Features and software

Solus comes pre-installed with a wide range of software that includes the latest Firefox, Thunderbird, Transmission and VLC. Additional software that is not installed by default can be downloaded using the included Software Center. Wireless chips and modems are supported through non-free firmware packages. Package management is done through eopkg.

Software developed by Solus

  • Budgie desktop environment: a GTK+ 3 desktop that tightly integrates with the GNOME software stack, employing the underlying technology. Starting with version 11, Budgie will be rewritten in Qt.
  • Raven a sidebar interface that serves as an applet panel, notifications center and houses the desktop customization settings.
  • Budgie Menu a quick category and search-based application launcher.
  • eopkg (Evolve OS Package) a fork of the PiSi package manager.
  • ypkg a tool to convert the build process into a packaging operation.
  • Software Center, a graphical frontend to install software in Solus.
  • The Brisk Menu, a menu used in Solus MATE.

    • Popularity

    As of March 6, 2017, Solus ranked 13th in the 6-month page hit rankings of Distrowatch. As of March 6, 2017, Solus ranked 6th among the most popular rolling release distributions on Distrowatch.

    References

    Solus project Wikipedia
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