14 DAY TRIAL // The developers of the independently-developed Solus operating system announced today the roadmap for the next major release, Solus 4, which appears to introduce several new features.
First off, it looks like the Solus devs plan to re-implement support for the next-generation Wayland display server in their GNU/Linux distribution, though the ISO images will come with the 2D X.Org graphics driver enabled by default and use open source drivers for Nvidia GPUs as they want to further improve Nvidia Optimus.
"We're working to improve the NVIDIA situation and investigating a switch to libglvnd, enabling of wayland-egl/eglstreams, etc.," reads today's announcement. "We've moved back to open drivers to allow Ikey to further research NVIDIA Optimus. [...] We have no timeline on this but we're actively looking into it!"
Solus MATE Edition to get a major update
While the main Solus edition will still be shipping with the Budgie 10 desktop environment, which will see a QoL (Quality of Life) update with some improvements to the tasklist and other core components, it looks like the Solus MATE Edition is gonna get some love, as the devs plan to bring it up-to-date and make it prettier.
The Software Center will be updated as well for the upcoming Solus 4 release to make it more usable, as well as to implement support for Ubuntu's Snappy technologies to allow users to install Snaps. Work on the next-generation Budgie 11 desktop environment will continue in the background.
When will Solus 4 be out we don't know yet, but rest assured that it's coming soon with all the goodies mentioned above, and then some. Meanwhile, all you can do is to keep calm and use Solus, and keep your fingers crossed for the Budgie 11 desktop environment to arrive just in time for the Christmas holidays.