I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of SolusOS Release Candidate 1

A great many things were fixed in this release, most of them you can get an overview of by clicking the Changelog tab below. Most importantly the kernel was restored to my custom build of 3.0.0-ck1-solusos, which is a desktop optimised kernel using the BFS patch and desktop preemption, giving you the snappiest desktop experience possible. It also uses PAE to allow 32-bit operating systems to see more than 3GB of RAM.

Your desktop experience is now getting more streamlined with each and every release, this one sees further integration with the Debian backports repository and the PackageKit system, as well as a finer-tuned PulseAudio configuration. We encourage everyone to try this download, and we’re pretty sure you’ll all enjoy it :)

MD5SUM

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  • Switched back to 3.0.0-686-bfs-pae kernel
  • Fixed kernel header issue
  • VirtualBox compilation + guest additions work
  • Further backports integration
  • Installing driver packages now works from repo
  • gnome-packagekit patched (fixes gpk-update-icon)
  • Repository expanded to over 1.3GB (lots of custom builds!)
  • Desktop experience now faster
  • Fixed missing loopback interface issue (thanks to KittyKatt)
  • X-Chat now connects to #SolusOS automatically
  • Firefox and Thunderbird included by default (replacing Chrome)
  • Many base system configuration changes
  • Included fork of mintDesktop tool (solusDesktop)
  • And many more changes that take too long to mention :)
  • i686 processor capable of PAE (most modern computers)
  • 512MB RAM
  • 3GB free disk space
  • Display capable of 1024×768 resolution
  • A DVD-RW or USB thumb drive

15 comments

  1. ah man I was waiting for this release so long! Thank you very much man! I am glad you slowly discovering potential of your site ;)

  2. Great job man, thank you

  3. Halldór

    Just discovered this distribution. Can’t wait to try it out on an older computer I have. Will be downloading when the stable release is out.

  4. Fantastic message, I actually wait for updates from you.

  5. Awesome \w/

  6. συχαριτηρια για το solus os ελλαδα
    κυριακη μαρτιος 04 περιπου εδω κι ενα μηνα δι ολου τιχεος εγκατεστησα το
    solus os εμεινα αφονως για την προσεγμενη τακτικι στο λειτουργικο σας
    συστυμα και τωρα???τι γυνεται τωρα??? μα εινα να το ρωτας solus os ….
    προταρχικο λειτουργικο στο συστυμα μου χορις κουδουνια και καμπανες
    solus os rc1’3 δεν πεζεται καταπλυκτικο »|||||||||||
    συχαριτηρια
    συχαριτηρια απο ελλαδα gr
    συχαριτηρια ευχαριστουμε πολλυ…

    • nice one dude but English please ;)

    • NikosMidi

      Γιατί ρε φίλε μιλάς ελληνικά σε ξένη σελίδα. Δεν είναι κανένας Ελληνας εδώ και προς τι τα συγχαρητήρια Ελλάδα κτλπ. Σίγουρα είσαι απο Ελλάδα, γιατί τα ορθογραφικά σου λάθη δε συμμαζεύονται.

      Φιλικά,
      Νίκος

  7. It looks beautiful. Can’t wait to try

  8. mockturtl

    First impressions: Gorgeous. Fast.

  9. Ikey….does this custom kernel include the new aspm fix patch so necessary for many laptops (like mine)? I’d love to run a lean Debian based Gnome2 on it.Thanks

    • No, that’s not available till 3.3 I heard? I’ll make sure and push that in a new update as soon as possible,
      thanks for letting me know

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