I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of SolusOS Release Candidate 2
Many new features, fixes, and software versions have made their way into RC2. We hope you enjoy using this release. Please note that you can upgrade to final from the Release Candidates when the time is ready.
We now have many updated applications, including LibreOffice 3.5.0 and VLC 2.0 “Twoflower”. We are committed to delivering the most up to date applications that we can, on the most solid and stable base possible. This release also sees the introduction of the First Run Wizard. Documentation will soon be put on the SolusOS Wiki regarding the new tool, and the operating system. The tool helps you set up your system for the first time, including networking tasks, the firewall, graphics drivers, and how often to update the computer.
Now is the best possible time to get involved in SolusOS. Whether its in the forums, the IRC support or by contributing code or donations, you can help shape the future of our project. We are changing the current view on many things; the idea that you have to have a rolling or bleeding edge base system to enjoy new software is wrong. SolusOS refines many concepts, and allows you to enjoy modern software and stability, as it always should have been.
Last but not least, SolusOS is about enjoying your time behind the screen. Computing shouldn’t be a mundane task, it should engage you and leave you wanting more from your computer, knowing that you can have more. Stick around, the ride has only just begun 
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- Firefox + Thunderbird 10.0.2 (both fixed and working)
- Upgraded to VLC 2.0 (with PulseAudio)
- Preliminary BluRay support
- Removed OpenJDK
- Included Sun Java 6 JRE + Plugin
- Upgraded to LibreOffice 3.5.0
- Dropbox integrated with Nautilus
- Added simple-scan
- Added Cheese Webcam Booth
- Default GTK theme switched to Victory
- Icons improved (using Faenza-Cupertino-Dark)
- GnoMenu replaced with Cardapio
- Installer much faster
- Plymouth boot splash included
- Splash accounts for nvidia machines
- AppIndicator support improved
- Build Essentials (gcc, etc) included
- Eye Of Gnome replaced gpicview
- Empathy replaced with Pidgin 2.10
- Included pidgin-facebookchat
- Debian Keyring now included (resolves keyring issues)
- Startup time improved (readahead-fedora)
- Now using prelink + preload, system is incredibly fast
- Minor theme updates everywhere
- Removed RGBA due to stability issues
- Any many more
Very nice, it really does work out of the box.
Of course I had to go get fusion-icon msyelf
because the version in the repos did not work,
but emerald and compiz all work quite nicely.
together.
My questions are these: Just how long will this
be maintained and do we have to accept Gnome 3
at some point in SolusOS? And when oh when will
the 64 bit version be ready?
Thank you for the fine work to this point.
Bill Skiles USA
Gnome 3 will be an option not a necessity
McLovin is working away on the 64-bit edition, more news when I have it
Good to hear and great to hear.
great job again Ikey!!!
Thank you very much
Is there any way to set up a torrent download for SolusOS? My direct downloads are failing, sadly, and I’d like to do it with Transmission, if I could.
try something like wget, Alaric the download page has been updated and direct links for download was added as well so you can use your download manager to download it..
Ikey, is there an upgrade path from RC1 to RC2 yet or do I need to do a clean load of RC2? Doesn’t really matter either way, just asking. I may do a clean load of RC2 just to try out the new First Run wizard. I already have the Nvidia driver for my video card installed in RC1.
Looking over the new features all I have to say is wow! I need to beat on RC2 some and then shoot an email to Dedoimedo, see if he’ll review it. RC1 really wasn’t cooked enough yet but RC2 looks like it’s ready for an in depth review.
Still looking forward to giving this a try. Downloading RC2 now…