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Solus

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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! It's Friday, and that means updates are headed your way! Read all about them on our forum: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10617-sync-updates-for-week-20-2024

  • Evan
pjol, to linux
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I got tickled by @Solus a few days ago when i stumbled across their prompt postings on resolving issues with the latest update so i now have it running on two devices so i can try it out and see how i like it.

Seems hibernation does not work on the laptop even though i chose to enable swap with hibernation at install but thats about it so far.

Besides that first impressions are positive, they seem to have a great community filled with friendly and helpful users, and even some devs seem to be active on their forums. Also their help docs seem good. One thing i really appreciated was how easy it was to find all the packages and other resources since everything is on github. They also seem to have done a lot of restructuring since the kerfuffle.

Solus,
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@pjol We're glad to hear that you're having a pretty good experience so far! Our community is full of wonderful people, and we are very grateful for them.

It may be worth creating a discussion on our forum about the hibernation, though getting hibernation working is pretty hit-or-miss.

There has been a lot of restructuring, indeed! We hope you decide to stick around! ๐Ÿ˜€

  • Evan
Solus, to random
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Heya folks, due to an update issue that was not caught before sync that can result in a broken package manager, we're temporarily blocking updates from being downloaded from the Stable repository. While this issue is being addressed, updates will not be able to be downloaded, nor will new packages be able to be installed if you are using the Stable repository.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and will update you as soon as we have more information.

  • Evan
Solus,
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@matt Thank you! ๐Ÿ™

Solus,
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As an update, we're still working on safely rolling back the problematic update. After that, we have to come up with a safer way to perform the usr-merge for the bin and sbin directories.

Thank you for your patience.

  • Evan
Solus,
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We are currently testing a solution to reverting the /bin and /sbin merge. Initial results are promising, but additional testing is needed, and the situation will be re-evaluated tomorrow morning.

If you are on the Unstable repository, please head on over to our Packaging Matrix channel if you would like to help test: https://matrix.to/#/#solus-packaging:matrix.org

Thanks!

  • Evan
Solus,
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Breaking news! Access to the stable repository has been restored! Steps have been taken to ensure that upgrading is once again safe.

If you updated previously, and now your system is broken, you will have to follow the steps in the Boot Rescue article in the Help Center to chroot into your system to fix it. Please see this post on the forum for more information: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10599-temporary-blocking-of-updates/13

Thank you for your patience and understanding during this event.

  • Evan
Solus,
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We found another issue, and are working quickly to resolve it. Please stand by.

  • Evan
Solus,
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Heya folks, the stable repository is once again unblocked; we believe we now have a path forward.

If you still experience issues while updating, such as if an earlier update broke your system, please see this post: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10599-temporary-blocking-of-updates/36

Note: As a result of the fixes, eopkg check will fail on a bunch of packages. This is because of the symbolic links for /bin, /sbin, and /lib, and does not actually indicate a problem. This will be addressed at a later time.

  • Evan
Solus, to foss
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Heya folks! It's Friday, and that means it's time for another weekly roundup! https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10594-sync-updates-for-week-19-2024

  • Evan
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

#FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource

  • 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!

#Solus #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #KDE

  • 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 #Nuitka.

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 #Linux on my laptop and then failed.

Something like this:

  1. Work out what distro of Linux I should install? Idk. Maybe @Solus? ๐Ÿคท

  2. Work out what the differences are between Budgie, GNOME, Plasma, or XKGB versions? Idk. Probably Budgie? ๐Ÿคท

  3. Download via torrent ๐Ÿ˜Ž

  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.

๐Ÿคท

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? ๐Ÿ˜€

  • 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 ๐Ÿฉท๐ŸŽ‚

Solus,
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@elementary Happy birthday! Hoping for lots of cake for everyone involved! ๐ŸŽ‚

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

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