Solus (operating system)

Solus
Solus 4.3 with Budgie desktop
DeveloperIkey Doherty, Joshua Strobl, Joey Riches, Reilly Brogan and Rune Morling et al
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Source modelOpen source
Initial releaseDecember 27, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-12-27)
Latest release4.5[1] / 8 January 2024; 7 months ago (8 January 2024)
Marketing targetDesktop
Available inmultilingual
Update methodRolling release
Package managereopkg
PlatformsAMD64
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
UserlandGNU
Default
user interface
Budgie, GNOME, MATE, Plasma
LicenseFree software licenses
(mainly GPLv2 and Apache License)
Official websitehttps://getsol.us

Solus (previously known as Evolve OS) is an independently developed operating system for the x86-64 architecture[2] based on the Linux kernel and a choice of Budgie, GNOME, MATE or KDE Plasma as the desktop environment.[2] Its package manager, eopkg, is based on the PiSi package management system from Pardus Linux,[3] and it has a semi-rolling release model, with new package updates landing in the stable repository every Friday.[4] The developers of Solus have stated that Solus was intended exclusively for use on personal computers and will not include software that is only useful in enterprise or server environments.[5]

  1. ^ David Harder. "Solus 4.5 Released".
  2. ^ a b "Download". getsol.us. Solus Project. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "eopkg package manager". github.com. GitHub. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  4. ^ "Release Process". getsol.us. Solus Project. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  5. ^ "Package Inclusion Policy". getsol.us. Solus Project. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020. Retrieved May 3, 2020.