The team is making a lot of changes these days

Jan 13, 2016 13:25 GMT  ·  By

The Solus developers have started to implement some of the promised fixes, and they have warned users not to use the unstable repo.

The unstable repository for Solus is one of the ways in which the users can get the latest improvements for the operating system before they become official. The name is pretty clear, and it shows just how dangerous it is to use it. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't get those updates, just that it’s very likely that you’ll wake up one morning, get the latest packages and mess up the system.

The Solus devs are also working on fixing all the reported bugs in the tracker, and they promised to be done with them in the next four weeks if nothing out of the ordinary pops up until then.

Fixing the boot problem

One of the most common problems reported by the community has to do with the boot process. It’s not as easy to fix as you might imagine, but they have made some headway in this direction.

“Currently, we're in the process of revising items for the boot issue users have found (and although many are quick to point the finger, we should point out that multipath-tools has 3 unique forks in the 3 other distributions [2 top tiers] and is a large part of the issue). So, we're going from systemd 218 to 221, dracut 041 to 044, and introducing libgudev, as this was removed from system,” Solus project leader Ikey Doherty revealed on Google+.

Solus 1.0 is being improved, and the makers of this distro will soon start to work on the 2.0 branch, which should arrive at the end of the year. Even with 2.0 in the making, the first release will be supported for the next two years, which is a nice touch from the Solus team.