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A modern operating system designed for home computing.

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Solus, to foss
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Heya folks! Lots of goodies are heading your way this week! Read all about it on our forum: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10572-sync-updates-for-week-18-2024

  • Evan
Solus, to foss
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Heya folks! This week brings us the latest GNOME Desktop, 46.1! Read the full news on our forum: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10546-sync-updates-for-week-17-2024

  • Evan
Solus, to linux
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Heya folks! It's been just over a year since we published the "New Voyage" blog post. In it, we laid out what we wanted to accomplish going forward after the reorganization. Now, one year later, let's outline what we've accomplished: https://getsol.us/2024/04/20/state-of-solus-april-2024/

Discussion about this blog post can be found on our forum: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10525-state-of-solus-april-2024

  • Evan
Solus, to foss
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Heya folks! It's that time of the week, again! Head on over to our forums to read this week's news update: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10521-sync-updates-for-week-16-2024

  • Evan
Solus, to foss
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Heya folks! It's time for another round of the news! Read all about it here: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10511-sync-updates-for-week-15-2024

  • Evan
Solus, to linux
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Heya folks, sync this week is going to be delayed by a day so the team can get KDE Frameworks 6.1 in the repository. Frameworks 6.1 contains many bug fixes, and we want to get those fixes to users as quick as possible. Thank you for your patience!

  • Evan
Solus, to foss
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Heya folks! It's Friday, and that can mean only one thing! Sync time! Head on over to our forum for all this week's details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10490-sync-updates-for-week-14-2024

  • Evan
Solus, to linux
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The Python 3 version of ypkg, the current build tool in Solus, has landed in Unstable for wider testing!

While it may not mean much for the average user, this is a significant milestone for the team, bringing us one big step close to ditching Python 2 for good. This is our first tool to be used in production using Python 3.

Solus,
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Also landing in Unstable today is the latest work on the Python 3 port of eopkg using .

Now, eopkg4-bin is as fast or faster than the old Python 2 version!

If you've never heard of Nuitka, check out their website! It's pretty cool: https://nuitka.net

  • Evan
Solus, to linux
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Over the past few days, great progress has been made in porting our package tooling from Python 2 to Python 3! Every little bit brings us closer to not having any reliance on Python 2, and puts us in a better place for the eventual transition to .

Here are the highlights:

  • Fixed a huge lzma compression speed regression
  • Ported back to iksemel from lxml due to performance regressions
  • Fixed dependency graph resolution regressions

  • Evan
Solus,
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Huge shoutout to Joey, livingsilver, and sheepman in helping to make all of this a reality!

matt, to linux
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Decided I should install on my laptop and then failed.

Something like this:

  1. Work out what distro of Linux I should install? Idk. Maybe @Solus? 🤷

  2. Work out what the differences are between Budgie, GNOME, Plasma, or XKGB versions? Idk. Probably Budgie? 🤷

  3. Download via torrent 😎

  4. Spend 15 mins trying to work out what the app for making disk images is called. Etcher? Got it.

  5. Realise I don't have a USB flash drive in the house. Or a blank DVD. Or an SD card reader.

🤷

Solus,
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@matt Sounds like a great excuse to get a couple of extra USB drives! One can never have too many, right? 😀

  • Evan
elementary, to random
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Today is the 13th birthday of elementary OS! Thanks to our friends, fans, sponsors, and more who have supported us and made it possible to keep bringing you our vision for the Open Source desktop 🩷🎂

Solus,
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@elementary Happy birthday! Hoping for lots of cake for everyone involved! 🎂

Solus, to KDE
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Heya folks! This week, @kde 6 comes to the Solus stable repository, available for everyone to use! To help ensure that the updates go as smooth as possible, Plasma users should ensure that their system does not go to sleep while updates are being applied. The system should also be rebooted after applying these updates.

Check out the full news post on our forum: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10466-sync-updates-for-weeks-12-and-13-2024

  • Evan
Solus,
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For those who may be curious, our version of xz has been downgraded to a non-vulnerable version today to address CVE-2024-3094, which went out with today's sync.

Solus,
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@scottytrees https://tenor.com/view/crazy-stupid-love-steve-carell-you-got-it-point-wink-gif-4614650

Solus, to KDE
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As a reminder to everyone, there is no sync this week because of @kde 6 testing! Have a good weekend!

  • Evan
Solus,
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Wallpaper: Escape by Alena Aenami https://aenamiart.artstation.com/projects/r9lEY2
Theme: Breeze-Dark with Carl color scheme https://store.kde.org/p/1331616

Solus,
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Welcome Maui GIF

Solus, to foss
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Heya folks! We're coming at you with another Wednesday (or Thursday, depending on where you live) Sync! Read all the details here: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10426-sync-updates-for-week-11-2024

  • Evan
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Heya folks! Happy... Wednesday... Sync? That's right! Surprise Wednesday sync! Python 3.11 is going out this week, which means every single Python package has been rebuilt. Read all about it here: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10403-sync-updates-for-week-9-and-10-2024

  • Evan
Solus, to foss
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Heya folks! It's time for another roundup of the Solus news! This week, we have moved our LTS kernel version to the latest in the 6.6 kernel series. Read all about it here: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10355-sync-updates-for-week-8-2024

  • Evan
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Heya folks! I bring you news of this week's updates! Read all about them here: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10335-sync-updates-for-week-7-2024

  • Evan
fedora, to random
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Thank you for being one of the few distributions out there that are wholly unique from the ground up!

To: @Solus
From: Fedora

Solus heart locket meme

Solus,
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@fedora Thank you for being a pioneer and helping move the entire ecosystem forward!

To: @fedora
From: Solus

Solus, to random
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New DevLog post: "Introduction to Optimizing Packages on Solus" using libwebp as a storytelling device.

https://help.getsol.us/blog/solus-optimizing-packages

There is a bunch of extra stuff I wanted to get into here but due to the length It'll have to wait for another post.

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