14 DAY TRIAL // The Solus operating system is moving closer to its October 1 release and developers are putting the final touches on the operating system, even if that means making some important improvements and changes.
The Solus devs have a lot on their hands, and the operating system is just days away from the 1.0 version. This means that the distro gets to be called stable and that it should be relatively bug-free, although that's pretty hard to achieve. Once the OS reaches 1.0, the number of users will increase significantly, and that means developers will have to deal with quite a lot of feedback.
This Linux distro is using a new desktop environment named Budgie and this is the first operating system to feature it in all its glory. It's been adopted by a couple of other distros, but it's safe to say that Budgie will shine in Solus.
Solus is still being updated
Despite the fact that the launch of Solus is just around the corner, quite a lot of changes have been made, especially to the Budgie desktop that has been moved to C from Vala.
"This installation is going to be some light reading this week. I didn't expect it to be, but with Ikey focusing significantly on Budgie and the majority of packages being in a fairly good state leading up to 1.0, it did mean a bit less to write about," wrote developer Joshua Strobl on the official blog.
According to the changelog, multi-panel support has been implemented, a new application launching API to avoid the double-forking issues, logging has been implemented, and the Popover system has been completely re-implemented. And all of these just for Budgie.
The developers have also explained that Solus has become a lot more Wayland-friendly, Linux kernel 4.1.8 is now default, and a number of other packages have been updated as well.
You can download Solus right now and keep upgrading until Thursday.