The SolusOS team is pleased to announce the release of SolusOS 1.1. This release brings greater hardware support and newer application versions, as well as support for hybrid GPU’s, such as the NVIDIA Optimus. A new 3.3.6 kernel is at its core with the BFS patch, alongide the Gnome 2.30 Desktop Environment. Many new application versions are present.
Brief overview of software versions
- Firefox 12.0
- Thunderbird 12.0.1
- LibreOffice 3.5.4
- Linux Kernel 3.3.6(with BFS/preempt)
- Gnome 2.30
- Openshot 1.4.2
- Nautilus-Elementary
- PlayOnLinux 4.0.18
- VLC 2.0.1
- FirstRunWizard 0.8
Many new applications are available in the software repository.
Feedback
Please use the SolusOS Forums for support and feedback
About this release
The 1.1 series, although based on the Eveline repositories, is to be maintained separately from the 1.0 series. The 1.1 release brings newer hardware support, whereas the 1.0 should be used by most people and will be considered the legacy support series.
Why should I update?
If you have recent hardware, you should use SolusOS 1.1 to squeeze the most performance out of your computer. Hybrid GPU’s and newer Intel sets are supported along with the ASPM fix into newer kernels meaning Intel users will have longer battery life and won’t suffer overheating. Some KMS fixes were also introduced into SolusOS 1.1. This should rectify issues that Radeon users have sufffered (black screen on boot)
Why should I stay with 1.0?
If you have ‘legacy’ hardware you should stay with SolusOS 1.0. Known issues in the new series include forcedeth and iwlagn users having no connectivity. The iwlagn module was moved into the iwlwifi tree and this may cause issues for some users. All of the application and package updates listed are in the Eveline repositories, so you will not be losing out. EDIT: It turns out some of these particular chipsets will connect but are blocked by the system firewall. Please use the Firewall tool in the Control Center and disable the system firewall.
Last but not least
Thank you to everyone involved in SolusOS. Without your help none of this would be possible. We
hope you enjoy this release as much as we have enjoyed creating it
32-bit MD5:
45bd82f22d089576439934e68e80eefc
64-bit MD5:
6d03365803478e11d0f32140dee998bc
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Amazing work! After 6 weeks of distro hoping in search for a new stable worstation for my main machine, I think I will settle here. Sounds great, and if it is as stable and fast as version 1.0 32 bits (I have it installed on an older machine) I think this is it!
Thanks Ikey and SolusOS team, amazing work!
Hope you enjoy!
Maravilloso!!!
Muchas gracias
Para cuando la version con GTK3?
wonderfull work again
cheers
Just going to install it (my laptop battery will appreciate this…)
Thank you!!!
Hope you enjoy it
Haha, just as I got 1.0 working on this MBP which has dual GPUs, a new intel processor etc.
I altready get very good battery life so I HAVE to try this. Guess it’s time to backup my settings and do a reinstall.
Very nice update rate on Solus now, and thanks a lot for the teams hard work!
Thank you for testing
GREAT! This one works!
muchas gracias, gran trabajo
you’re very welcome
Sweet! Only a couple weeks after SolusOS 1.0 was released, another update came along right after with pretty awesome patches. Thank You Ikey!
No worries glad you like it!
Ikey – Just a thought here. Trying to determine what is considered “legacy hardware” can be rather difficult these days. Are we saying that anything older than Intel Core-2 CPUs (and their AMD equivalents) plus associated hardware of that era would be considered legacy hardware? Or are we going as far back as the last generation of single core CPUs? (both 32 bit and 64 bit).
Where is the line drawn?
i installed solus os on to pc that had corrpt installs both are amd atlon 64 system, solus didn’t run as snappy as i thought it would so my dual p3 system i’m building i don’t think it would run well though. i don’t even think my p2 motherboard would be able to handle it either sadly.
you should realy support older versions of firfox instead and with all this support for newer hardware i don’t think it will do well with older hardware like the pentium 2 and 3 and support the nivdia fx 5200 or older?
David – I have to say that support for P3 and P2 MB configurations is a bit much to ask. My opinion of course but you’re talking about PC architecture that’s 13 to 16 years old and in computer terms that’s ancient. My desktop is a Intel Core 2 Quad setup with 8 GB DDR2 which is going on 5 years old at that. Sure, it runs any Linux based distro and Windows without a problem but considering that the Intel “i” series CPUs are in their second generation already, my rig is definitely getting on in age. In comparison, I was using P2 and P3 based rigs back in the late 90s.
i don’t like new tech very much and i really don’t like throwing something away if it still works. ubuntu 8.04 worked very well ith my hardware though.
David, how does Windows 7 run on your P3 and P2 hardware? I believe we all know the answer. If you like to run a modern distro on your hardware, check out Antix and other distros like that.
my pentium 3 is dual cpu p3 1ghz and can support up to 4gb of ram.
Can someone explain how to upgrade to this version from the previous?
I believe you have to do a fresh install for this release
Just tried 1.1 in live mode and liked it although the wi-fi connects OK but Firefox will not connect to the net. Played with network settings and Firefox settings to no avail. Gonna try it again on a full install in the future. Nice work! any thoughts on the Firefox problem would be appreciated. Thanx
I had the same issue. Easily solved by running “First Run Wizard”, enable “Firewall” and “Allow incoming traffic”.
Thanks eenewbie. I’ll give it a shot.
hallo! is this a rolling release? thank you!
Hello dd, I am afraid this is not rolling distro.
WOW! I’m totally impressed by the way this new distro is maintained. I’m a long time Ubuntu/Mint user, but I don’t like the direction these distros are going… So I’m looking a stable, light and up-to-date replacement.
SolusOS 1.1 has arrived just in time! Thank you very much for the great work. I’m amazed that it’s so light on resource usage. 220 MB of RAM with Compiz enabled? Are you kidding, guys?
1. What the resource usage would be if I disabled Compiz (I prefer productivity over bells and whistles) ???
Now I’m writting from an old laptop with Linux Mint 12 LXDE (Pentium M 1.6 PAE supported, 512 MB of RAM) and it uses about 80 MB of RAM when idle.
2. Do you think I’d successfully switch to Solus OS 1.1 on that laptop?
I like the up-to-date software sellection, but I’m affraid my laptop is too old for it…
3. I wish Ikey considered preparing SolusOS 1.1 spin with XFCE 4.10 as default DE for users of older computers. This DE is a perfect replacement for GNOME 2 and LXDE as well as XFCE 4.10 consumes only 2 MB RAM less on Arch than LXDE!!! And it’s more mature and solid rock stable!
I’m sure SolusOS with XFCE 4.10 made by Ikey would be great alternative to Xubuntu (still with old 4.8 version), Lubuntu and similar distros and would attract many newcommers to the SolusOS Community!
Thank you very much for the great work
VX
Ι’m a Xfce user, converted to Gnome 2 by Ikey et al. I would be happy to use Xfce 4.10 on top of the SolusOS base, but I think that Ikey and the team have enough work to do as it is. The only way this can happen is to have someone else do it. Ikey should stay focused on the main version of SolusOS.
Thanks for the reply
I must admit that GNOME version made by Ikey is very encouraging in terms of resource usage and usability. In fact, more and more users on the Forum are requesting SolusOS XFCE version, believing in Ikey’s ‘magic’ skills in terms of optimisation. XFCE doesn’t have large amoun’t of packages so I guess it wouldn’t be too hard to maintain (comparing to other mature DE). Furthermore, new desktop enviornment means new users for testing SolusOS releases, so greater Community could bring substantional improvements for SolusOS GNOME as well. Unfortunatelly, SolusOS 1.1 hasn’t been tested yet. But I expect very good results with it.
Good luck to the SolusOS Teem
Shock and Awe!
First the awe…
I’ve started using Solus 1.0 64 bit on my work-machines three days ago after having tried it a few times but found too many glitches.
As I recall, one of Ikeys ideas was, that the user should have an “working out of the box” experience if at all possible. I just had one minor thing with the openvpn-client, i posted a note on the fix in the forums.
It is fantastic and runs like a bat out of hell!!
Until now it is propably the best desktop-distro I have ever used which accounts for many. Thanks to Ikey and the team for their dedication and hard work. I might still encounter problems down the road with some too old packages etc., but my experience right now is simply one of pure pleasure. The idea of using Debian stable for everything that should just work and then keeping the newest versions of the most used apps is just right in my mind. That you manage to tweak the kernel and some other stuff like the menus, services etc. also is just splendid. I’m a little old school concerning the desktop, so the Gnome2-feeling is just fine with me for the time being. I just want to get some work done…
Now the shock…
Yesterday I found out that a new version 1.1 was out, one that should be more oriented towards newer hardware. But with no upgrade-path…. In itself this is of course fine, but it makes me worry about the direction of the project. I first heard of Solus through the Mintcast-podcast, where Ikey explained his motivations. He thought the LMDE had drifted in the wrong direction, the rolling-distro idea didn’t work out, things were not updated and so on.
I later found out that Ikey’s thoughts on this are, that we should have a semi-rolling release-cyclus, so that when Debian-stable changes to a new version, Solus will be updatable without having to do a complete reinstall. Or what?
Now we seem to have 4 different editions that should be maintained seperately and what will happen from here? I think the way Solus should be updated/migrated in the future is completely unclear at the moment and it would absolutely be a great plus for the project, if this could be clarified.
I wouldn’t mind reinstalling now and then if the distro is so great as it seems to be, but I would like to know what to expect in this area. So..
1) Will Solus be a rolling release in the sense, that a complete reinstall will never be necessary?
2) If not, what excactly does Ikey mean by semi-rolling?
I found /wiki/2012/04/upgrade-path/ but it seems to be the only documentation on this
2) Will it be possible to have an upgrade path from 1.0 to 1.1?
3) I wouldn’t mind helping out with some stuff but my time is limited due to work, family, soccer-coaching etc.
Documentation seems to be the one area where Solus sucks reeeaallly big time. To the point where the wiki is EMPTY, except for a search box. This is close to being a joke…
If I were to help out documenting for example, where should I start?
Hans Otto Lunde
College Teacher/Systemadministrator
Egmont Højskolen
Quick question. The new kernel does not seem to support pae. I tried finding an equivalent 3.3.6 pae supported kernel but was not successful. Any thoughts?
Ikey has updated the kernel to be pae-enabled.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Answer yes to prompts to replace kernel etc.
Cheers.
Hey, my last install is hardly dry! Well done guys. Will be trying the new ISOs soon.
Ray
I just placed yesterday this full post to Google+ to show, especially for the failure Fedora-team, how a development team must develop an OS for a broad public, thinking and keeping in mind the new hybrid hardware sets, which is crucial, this hardware combo sold very often!
Of course i placed this post together with the link of this website, naturally!!!
Hats off for your works Ikey and his team, nice!!
Me thinks 1.1 is more about damage control than a “swell new update”. Solus 1.0 performed rather poorly on my Quad-Core,16GB RAM ASUS Gamer Laptop with more than a few annoying burps at boot-up and re-boots during multitasking. The ISO was MD5 perfect too so no errors there. In 5 days it lost it partition to a better performer so I am taking a wait-and-see attitude to 1.1 before I try the 64 bit version. As to those worrying about Solus’ rather loose use of the term ‘legacy’ being applied to 1.0 and the supposed boxes its now designed for, just remember that less than two months ago Solus 1.0 was for “machines with modern hardware like Nvidia cards and newer SATA or SCSI HD…and USB 3.0 support..”, so don’t get crazy. Just remember the reviewers who were the source of statements like that.
I think you misunderstand Mars. The 1.0 didn’t play nice with newer hardware, and we strive to support all hardware.
If you look there is a specific focus on newer hardware with 1.1. This isn’t damage control its about providing
the same experience for all hardware. SolusOS is meant to be for old and new, hence 1.0 and 1.1
Some screenshots of SolusOS 1.1 here: http://linuxscreenshot.netsons.org/solusos-1-1/
Looking good if I do say so myself!
Recently I have tested Solus os 1. I am very pleased to it’s performance and new style. I wish it will be popular day by day. I like to write a review on my blog about solus OS.
Thanks for all of our works.
Thank you sir
I’ve just had time to install SolusOS 1.1 AMD on my main box and it looks good, especially the artwork used in plymouth. It was a shame I haven’t found how to align it to my 1280×1024 monitor and it sits slightly offset to the right and up a bit.
At the end of the live session the dvd ejected but there was no message on the screen to say anything about removing it or pressing the “Enter” key. (This has been apparent on earlier editions but there were more important issues to deal with.)
The first boot (from my HD) crashed, with the monitor seeing a dead signal from my Nvidia card. After resetting the box the second boot was okay.
On installing the printer, my old Epson Stylus Color 760, a driver was installed and it showed it was for a 760. A test print only completed 2/3rds of the page and then went awry! I reinstalled the driver (using the default options, apart from overwriting the file) and everything started working okay again.
Okay guys, what I’m saying is if it doesn’t work the first time, try it again!
Other than the above comments, SolusOS 1.1 is looking really good. I will let you know how my Cron Jobs get on with this new updated kernel later on.
In a nutshell, it’s bloody good Ikey. Well done Team SolusOS.
Ray
Glad things are working now mate
Sorry that you had some issues :/
I know the release notes mention potential problems with “iwlagn” devices, which I figured was a family of wireless cards. A quick search on Google verified this. But my problem is not the wireless card; well, I mean I have a POS Broadcom which is hopeless in almost every Linux distribution I ever threw at it, so I have given up on it a long time ago. But what I don’t get and is kind of inexcusable is… in SolusOS 1.1, I get absolutely NO network connectivity, whatsoever. At all. Standard, wired ethernet is all I care about, and it has yet to fail on any Linux distro I’ve tried… until SolusOS 1.1.
It starts disconnected, and when I manually connect to it it claims to be connected, but trying to to anything online (even ping http://www.google.com for example) does not work. It DOES work right on boot in SolusOS 1.0. From lspci:
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
Disable the firewall in the control centre your connection
Will be ok.
MCP 61 uses forcedeth. The announcement does clearly
State it has issues with this kernel.
Hmm… didn’t know what forcedeth was, forgot about the mention of that. Thanks for the answer. Will there be a 1.1.x update with a fixed kernel eventually, or is this version of the kernel going to be locked into the 1.1 series?
Certain h/w have trouble talking to the router with the updated firewall code. Just disable the firewall and you’re good to go.
99% of all distros don’t have firewalls enabled by default which is why most people have never seen this issue. We like
security
Ran the First Run Wizard and all is well. Think I’m a Solus OS man now!
Yay!
Your md5 sum here: /blog/2012/06/solusos-1-1-released/ (64 bit), doesn’t match the md5 sum on the actual download page. Which is correct?
Although the md5 from the download page matches the subsequent downloaded.iso, USB creators keep saying an md5 mismatch…!
May I download ubuntuone and activate here my count ?
We haven’t looked into UbuntuOne yet. Probably possible. Not sure.
You will be pleased to know that Gnome Schedule is now working with this kernel and that, by default, cron jobs should be working okay too.
Glad to hear it mate! Made me a happy man
Nice distribution . I love your efforts !! Go on man…we are with you !!!
Nice job!
Can I get my SolusOs persistent on my USB with casper-rw file by adding the keywort persistent in isolinux.cfg?
Hello, I tried it today, all works fine, but I had a problem with the Wifi connection it appears to be connected but I can’t surf in the internet and I can’t do nothing.
Sorry for my english.
Hi Sebastian, try to disable firewall in settings
Thank you, I’ll try today.
Thank, It’s working now, thank you so much.
One of the distribution!!!
Sorry in Cardapio Menu, searching anything and entering is working, only thing, I can’nt select from keyboard, if there are more than one results.
Love Solus OS but I was wondering; Ubuntu/Fedora users can install Laptop-Mode-Tools and Jupiter Applet to prolong battery life for your laptop….there’s no debian version of Jupiter Applet; not sure about Laptop-Mode-Tools so is there anything in Solus OS that can do the job?
A new SolusOS version which provides better hardware support is good. Hope the features squeeze out the best of performance from my PC too.
Recycle Stickers
great release, and fast ~:^)
Afew gripes (since RC2)
* blutoothing between laptop to mobile phone dosnt work even after installing blueman and all of the OBEX services.
* theres no preferences in setting up to recieve bluetooth files either (personal file sharing).
* unable to setup sharing folders on right click.
other then that, definately has potential
ibm450 please use forums to report any issues.. thanks