14 DAY TRIAL // It's been a little over two weeks since the Solus Project launched the first ISO snapshot of their Linux-based operating system, Solus 2017.01.01.0, but its development team has been engaged in various duties since then.
We've already told you about their plans to concentrate on delivering the Linux Driver Management tool that lets users more easily choose and install the perfect drivers for their hardware, as well as the long-anticipated Budgie 11 desktop environment for Q1 2017.
Today, Solus Project is informing the Solus community about some of the work they have planned for the coming weeks, and the good news we want to share with you is that the operating system will soon move to the latest GNOME 3.22 Stack and Linux 4.9 kernel.
According to their Twitter announcement, the upgrade from the GNOME 3.20 Stack to the 3.22 one will help them resolve various blockers that won't allow the current version of the Budgie desktop environment to be compatible with the GNOME 3.22 packages.
"We'll end up doing a new tag of Budgie 10.2.x branch to fix those issues," explained the Solus devs. "Please don't expect features in this release, though, just bug fix stuff. [Budgie] 10.2.x is effectively moving to EOL [End of Life] when we transition to [Budgie] 11."
Linux kernel 4.9, new Brisk Menu release, parallel kernels, and bulletproof updates
Until the Budgie desktop becomes fully compatible with the GNOME 3.22 Stack, there are other things to get excited about in Solus, such as the Linux 4.9 kernel, along with initial Nvidia Optimus support, bulletproof updates and parallel kernels, allowing multiple Linux kernel branches to co-exist on the system.
A new release of the recently unveiled Brisk Menu for the Solus MATE edition is also coming soon, and it looks like Solus is adopting yet another in-house built tool ported by project leader Ikey Doherty from the Clear Linux project, namely Boot Loader Management (a.k.a. clr-boot-manager), which enables the correct maintenance of vendor kernels.
Last but not least, Solus users will be thriller to learn that they won't be required to reboot their systems after Linux kernel updates. Oh, and it also looks like Solus is getting a brand-new icon theme soon. That being said, we can't wait for Budgie 11 to land on our Solus machines.
Parallel kernels coming soon to #Solus - allowing multiple kernel versions to coexist for bulletproof boots. pic.twitter.com/d9xX1kwm2d — Solus (@SolusProject) January 10, 2017