Solus 2.0, upcoming stable major release of independently evolved GNU/Linux distribution, will drop support for eopkg - the unique package manager of project, which was initially forked from PiSi package manager. Instead of eokpg, Solus will ship another package manager which will be completely written in C, known by the name Sol. This update was shared in weekly news letter of Solus project.
The newly proposed package manager, sol, will be more optimized by taking advantages of modern laptop CPUs and this will act as a core of Solus 2.0. This package manager will also help Solus to have lighter disk usage profile.
Also, the project is planning to rewrite budgie core completely in C, instead of using combination of C and Vala, which will help budgie to be more close to underlying hardware and provide improved performance. At the same time applet developers can continue to use C, Vala or Python to write applets, and budgie desktop can provide better integration for these applets with improved performance.
Last week, Solus team has also organized a hackfest, targeting to implement goals of upcoming minor release Solus 1.2.1, and following are achievements of this hackfest.
The newly proposed package manager, sol, will be more optimized by taking advantages of modern laptop CPUs and this will act as a core of Solus 2.0. This package manager will also help Solus to have lighter disk usage profile.
Also, the project is planning to rewrite budgie core completely in C, instead of using combination of C and Vala, which will help budgie to be more close to underlying hardware and provide improved performance. At the same time applet developers can continue to use C, Vala or Python to write applets, and budgie desktop can provide better integration for these applets with improved performance.
Last week, Solus team has also organized a hackfest, targeting to implement goals of upcoming minor release Solus 1.2.1, and following are achievements of this hackfest.
For more details, and videos of Solus hackfest 1.2.1, see blog post published by Solus project.
- You can now pin Visual Studio Code (both the proprietary and OSS versions) in Budgie.
- Fixes landed to ensure the Color calibration and profiling section in Gnome Control Center showed the appropriate devices and resolved crashes for some users.
- You can now set a custom background for the Lock Screen via Gnome Control Center.
- Conky transparency has been fixed.
- The Third-Party section in Solus Software Center has received support for installation of more software, namely:
- Google Talk Plugin
- Sublime Text 3
- Opera
- Patches have landed for a multiple of new and existing packages, such as:
- font-indic-ttf has landed in the repo for improved international support.
- Glade has been updated to 3.19.
- Guake has landed in the repo.
- Parted is now a runtime dependency of gnome-disks.
- pgAdmin3 has landed in the repo, alongside sphinx.
- SFML has landed in the repo.
- xprop now using the correct package format.
- Zenity now using the correct package format.