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SolusOS 2 & Multiarch

I'd like to quickly make people aware of some recent progress we've made. We've slowly been preparing our toolchain to support 'multiarch'

Latest Milestone - Networking

As promised, I'm still keeping everyone up to date with our latest milestones in SolusOS 2.

We've now completed our networking stack, and SolusOS 2 is fully capable of using a remote repository now.

New SolusOS Buildfarm

Just another quick update, we're working now on a new buildfarm for SolusOS. This is essentially an automated package building system for SolusOS 2.
While the original Pardus buildfarm was a very good piece of software, it was limited in its uses. Originally limited to just SVN repository access, we've now expanded this piece of kit to work over git,
automatically discovering new packages to be built.

SolusOS 2 - New Milestone

New SolusOS 2 Milestone

As you can see from the image below, we just hit 500 commits to our git repository. We've managed to complete 'system.base', we have a working init system, grub2, initramfs, 3.8.2 kernel,and we're now working on the desktop stack. We also managed to complete most of the networking stack (Using NetworkManager 0.9.8), and we're very proud of what we've achieved so far :)

Standing On (SolusOS) Two Legs

Hello everyone!

Sorry there hasn't been much news recently - Ikey and I have been working at a feverish pace to get ourselves up to where we want to be with SolusOS 2.  Today, I would like to post a quick update to share with the community on what we are doing with regards to SolusOS 2.  You can see some screenshots at the bottom of the page!

Java 7 - Update 17

Oracle Java 7 Update 17
A new version of Oracle Java 7 can be installed using the WebUpd8 installer packages,
which are now in the repositories. Please ugprade all packages when prompted via the
update client

Consort Desktop - News

Very brief blogpost. As of today I'm moving Consort away from GTK3.4. In order to retain cross-distro compatibility we will be using GTK3.6 and associated dependencies to build the Consort Desktop.
Summary of coming changes (over the next few weeks):

PayPal address changed

Just a quick note here, the old paypal address is no longer active: paypal AT solusos DOT com
The new PayPal address for donations, support, etc, is now: support AT solusos DOT com
 

SolusOS 1.3 Released

The SolusOS Team are pleased to announce the release of SolusOS Eveline 1.3. This is strictly a maintenance release, and includes base system adjustments and updates not present in the 1.2 release. This release is available in the following architectures: x86, x86 with PAE, amd64

What's new?

Between the 1.2 release and this release, there have been over 300MB in package updates. This ISO is fully up to date and includes (but is not limited to) the following software versions:

SolusOS - An Ad Free Experience

As the title suggest, SolusOS is now an ad-free zone. I expect most people will be wondering why.. :)

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