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Solus 1.0 Released, Powered By GTK Budgie Desktop

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 27 December 2015 at 07:50 AM EST. 23 Comments

The Solus 1.0 release didn't happen on Christmas as originally planned, but nevertheless it's available this morning for its premiere release and formal introduction of its own desktop environment.

Solus 1.0's desktop is called Budgie and it's a simple, GTK-powered desktop environment that ships with a nifty applet/notification/customization center, and various other features of the new desktop.

Solus-Project.com

Solus 1.0 makes use of the eopkg package manager, ships with Goofiboot as a fork of Gummiboot, and is powered by the Linux 4.3 kernel.

More details on Solus 1.0 can be found via Solus-Project.com.

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