The Solus Linux team announced release of Solus 1.1 'Shannon', latest update of independently evolved GNU/Linux distribution that make use of eopkg package manager. Solus features a traditional, simple, lightweight and yet powerful desktop environment which is known as Budgie.
Solus 1.1 is developed using the groundwork of Solus 1.0 and it comes with a lot improvements and refinements.
From release announcement:
Solus 1.1 is developed using the groundwork of Solus 1.0 and it comes with a lot improvements and refinements.
From release announcement:
It isn’t tradition for Linux distributions to ship fundamental changes in point releases. But given our tradition of breaking traditions, we’ve shipped a plethora of optimizations to the core of our operating system and further optimization to the core libraries used throughout our display / graphic stack.Read complete release announcement in Solus blog.
- We now provide preliminary OpenGL 4.1 support.
- Mesa has been updated to 11.1.2
- Xorg has been updated to 1.17.4
- We’ve synchronized our Intel X11 driver with the last development version in git for improved performance and extended hardware support, including Broadwell, Skylake and preliminary support for future SKUs.
- Nouveau support is at the latest release.