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Solus 4.2 Released

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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.

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Solus 4.2 Released With Linux 5.10 Kernel

  • Solus 4.2 Released With Linux 5.10 Kernel, Other Updated Packages

    For fans of the Solus Linux distribution, Solus 4.2 is now available as the project's latest release for this optimized, desktop-minded platform.

    Solus 4.2 ships with the Linux 5.10.12 kernel, providing a wealth of new and improved hardware support. Solus 4.2 also brings other prominent package upgrades like Mesa 20.3.3, FFmpeg 4.3.1, GStreamer 1.18.2, PulseAudio 14.1, and many other package updates to improve the user experience.

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Solus 4.2 Fortitude Linux distro is here with Budgie, GNOME, KDE

  • Solus 4.2 Fortitude Linux distro is here with Budgie, GNOME, KDE Plasma, and MATE

    So far, 2021 is a definite improvement over 2020, but it's not all great. Due to the ever-mutating COVID-19 virus, many of us remain isolated in our homes. Thankfully, we computer nerds have been training most of our lives for this -- we have experienced plenty of extended time away from other humans, instead tinkering with our computers.

    One thing I have enjoyed doing to pass the time during the pandemic is installing Linux distributions. Distro-hopping isn't just fun, but educational too. Today, Solus 4.2 becomes available for download, and it is an operating system you should check out. It is offered with your choice of four great desktop environments -- Budgie, GNOME, KDE Plasma, and MATE.

Solus 4.2 Budgie Run Through

  • Solus 4.2 Budgie

    Today we are looking at Solus 4.2, the Budgie edition. It comes with Linux Kernel 5.10, Budgie Desktop 10.5.2, and uses about 1GB of ram when idling. Enjoy!

  • Solus 4.2 Budgie Run Through

    In this video, we are looking at Solus 4.2 Budgie. Enjoy!

Solus 4.2 overview | Install today. Updates forever.

Solus Continues To Impress Me With Each Release

  • Solus Continues To Impress Me With Each Release

    Solus is an independent Linux distribution that I have always enjoyed using. In particular, their Budgie desktop environment is a really impressive piece of work. It is clean, attractive and polished. It uses a traditional Windows-like desktop paradigm but with a modern design.

Solus 4.2 Gnome

  • Solus 4.2 Gnome

    Today we are looking at Solus 4.2, the Gnome edition. It comes with Linux Kernel 5.10, Gnome 3.38, and uses about 1GB of ram when idling. Enjoy!

  • Solus 4.2 Gnome Run Through

    In this video, we are looking at Solus 4.2 Gnome. Enjoy!

Linux: Solus 4.2 brings a revised Budgie desktop

  • Linux: Solus 4.2 brings a revised Budgie desktop

    Version 4.2 of the Linux distribution Solus supports additional hardware and offers numerous detailed improvements to the in-house Budgie desktop.

    The development of the new Solus version took about a year, but the innovations are quite manageable for this long period of time. The Linux Kernel 5.10.12 is now working in the background, through which Solus 4.2 supports more hardware components than the previous version. In addition to other USB cameras, this also includes processors of the current generation, such as the AMD Ryzen 5600X family or Intel’s Core i9-10850K. With an update of the Mesa graphics library, the Linux distribution also supports AMD graphics cards from the RDNA 2 and RX6000 families. In addition, Mesa offers a Vulkan 1.2 interface on AMD and Intel graphics cards.

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    Budgie 10.5.2 also improves the start menu, which now sorts the program categories alphabetically and no longer shows empty categories. The latter mainly happened when installing Windows applications via the WINE runtime environment. In addition, the start menu pays closer attention to the information in the desktop information files. Programs use these “.desktop” files to tell which category they want to be placed in and which command to use to open the start menu. Applications can also explicitly ask in the “.desktop” file not to appear in the start menu. The Budgie Menu now follows this requirement more strictly, as it takes into account the corresponding “Hidden” and “NoDisplay” settings in some other cases. If an application can be accessed via ”

Solus 4.2 MATE

  • Solus 4.2 MATE Run Through

    In this video, we are looking at Solus 4.2 MATE.

  • Solus 4.2 MATE

    Today we are looking at Solus 4.2, the MATE edition. It comes with Linux Kernel 5.10, MATE 1.24, and uses about 900MB of ram when idling. Enjoy!

Solus 4.2 Plasma

  • Solus 4.2 Plasma

    Today we are looking at Solus 4.2, the Plasma edition. It comes with Linux Kernel 5.10, KDE Plasma 5.20, and uses about 700MB of ram when idling. Enjoy!

  • Solus 4.2 Plasma Run Through

    In this video, we are looking at Solus 4.2 Plasma.

Hands-On with Solus Linux 4.2: Fast to install

  • Hands-On with Solus Linux 4.2: Fast to install, and very pleasant to use

    I first wrote about Solus Linux and the Budgie Desktop exactly four years ago. I haven't done much with it since then, it was always installed and occasionally updated on at least one of my computers, but because of the other activities I had going on I didn't spend much more time on it. Now that I have time, and they have just announced the release of Solus 4.2, this seems like a good time to take a fresh look.

    Why Solus?

    With so many other good Linux distributions available, what make Solus different or special? In my opinion it is two things - first, Solus is an independent distribution, built from scratch – it is not derived from Debian, Ubuntu or one of the other major distributions. Second, Solus is developed and maintained by a small, dedicated group of people.

Solus 4.2 Overview Promo #Shorts

  • Solus 4.2 Overview Promo #Shorts

    A promo for the Solus 4.2 Overview video For the full video https://youtu.be/4J1Ea5IpTpY 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 Budgie desktop, which can be set to emulate the look and feel of the GNOME 2 desktop, is tightly integrated with the GNOME stack. The distribution is available for 64-bit computers only.

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