"Solus is an unusually stable, unusually simple to use rolling release distribution. Everything is pretty straight forward, everything works (at the lower levels), everything installed and updated smoothly."
(But choose your desktop!)

a review of @Solus 4.7 and #Budgie 10.9 by @distrowatch: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250310#solus

Solus origin: #Ireland
website location: California

#decoupling #nonAligned #alternatives #EuropeAlternatives #nonUS #distros #LinuxDistributions #desktop #FOSS #FLOSS #Linux #Solus #SolusDistribution #SolusLinux #Budgie #BudgieDesktop #rollingDistributions #rollingRelease

I could have sworn Solus Linux supported Secure Boot. Sadly, I get this error when trying to boot the USB. I can press "OK" and it brings me right back to my PCs UEFI menu. 😢

#Uefi #SecureBoot #Linux #Solus #SolusLinux

Whoa, Hybrid Sleep saved me from a power outage on my ThinkCentre M910q.

I came home to blinking clocks on my oven and microwave, and expected to see some journal replay stuff when I booted my little desktop, but it just jumped right back to the lock screen.

So nice! I don't recall ever having hibernate working properly on linux, before. :BlobCatDerpy:

#Solus #linux #SolusLinux

Just remembering something before I shuffle off to bed...

I'd like to write a "vrms" / "check-dfsg-status" - style script for #eopkg.

The idea is that it looks through your package repo and warns you if any packages are proprietary. It's quite easy to do on Debian, as it relies on whether or not any packages are from the Contrib or Non-Free repos. I wrote one for flatpak that looks at the license of each installed package, and searches for stuff like (GPL|MIT|BSD|etc...).

I also wrote one for #arch years and years ago, but found it was a futile effort, as hundreds of packages in the base install just had "custom" in the license field.

So far, it's looking quite promising:

$ eopkg info $(eopkg -N li |cut -f1 -d" ") |grep ^Licenses |cut -f2- -d: |tr , "\n" |sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//; s/[[:space:]]*$//' |grep -v "^$" |uniqsort
      2 Artistic-Perl-2.0
      2 Bitstream-Vera
      2 BSD-3-Clause-Attribution
      2 BSD-4-Clause
      2 CC-BY-4.0
      2 CC-BY-SA-3.0
      2 CC-PDDC
      2 CDDL-1.0
      2 Copyright
      2 CPL-1.0
      2 EPL-1.0
      2 EUPL-1.2
      2 GFDL-1.2
      2 GFDL-1.3
      2 GFDL-1.3-only
      2 gnuplot
      2 GPL-1.0-only
      2 GPL-1.0-or-later
      2 GPL-2.0-later
      2 GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
      2 GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note
      2 JasPer-2.0
      2 LGPL-2.0
      2 LGPL-2.0-or-later WITH WxWindows-exception-3.1
      2 LGPL-3.0
      2 MPL-2.0-or-later
      2 PDDL-1.0
      2 PostgreSQL
      2 Rdisc
      2 Unlicense
      2 X11
      4 AGPL-3.0-only
      4 AOMPL-1.0
      4 BSD
      4 bzip2-1.0.6
      4 GFDL-1.1-or-later
      4 IJG
      4 Info-ZIP
      4 Libpng
      4 libtiff
      4 OLDAP-2.8
      4 Public-Domain
      4 WTFPL
      6 AGPL-3.0-or-later
      6 Artistic-2.0
      6 BSD-4-Clause-UC
      6 CC-BY-3.0
      6 EULA
      6 OpenSSL
      6 TCL
      8 GFDL-1.2-only
      8 HPND
      8 LGPL-2.1
      8 Python-2.0
      8 SGI-B-1.0
     10 0BSD
     10 BSL-1.0
     10 Distributable
     10 OFL-1.1
     12 CC-BY-SA-4.0
     12 GFDL-1.2-or-later
     14 GPL-3.0
     16 MPL-1.1
     18 GPL-2.0
     20 Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
     20 Zlib
     22 LGPL-3.0-only
     32 CC0-1.0
     32 ISC
     36 GPL-3.0-only
     38 Artistic-1.0-Perl
     56 GFDL-1.3-or-later
     56 MPL-2.0
     94 Apache-2.0
    110 LGPL-2.0-only
    112 BSD-2-Clause
    122 LGPL-3.0-or-later
    126 LGPL-2.1-only
    136 GPL-2.0-only
    214 LGPL-2.0-or-later
    232 GPL-3.0-or-later
    278 BSD-3-Clause
    416 LGPL-2.1-or-later
    442 MIT
    548 GPL-2.0-or-later

#Solus #SolusLinux

Happy to report that I've added support for #SolusLinux' #eopkg to all of my little package utilities: https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/commit/73d34d376cabf5d209f85ca8eafaef92395cb5e0

cc @solusspider

#Solus

Ok, this is crazy weird...

I deleted my ~/.config/syncthing folder and started syncthing again to re-set it up from scratch, and everything was back! My config, my folders, everything!!

I looked in ~/.config/, and no syncthing!

I did a find, and the config folder is in ~/.local/state/syncthing!!

Has anyone heard of ~/.local/state/? Is that a #Solus thing?
I'd never encountered it before.

Phew!!

#SolusLinux

#HelloWorld

First #toot from #Solus!

#SolusLinux

I really want to like #SolusLinux, as there's not a lot of good semi-rolling-release distros, but the fact that /usr/bin/python is symlinked to python2 gives me mega heebie-jeebies.

Guys, I don't mean to be rude. It's a wonderful distro made by wonderful people.

But PYTHON TWO? In 2025? That's a security jump-scare!

:BlobCatBlankieScared: :BlobFoxScared:

#solus #infosec #python

@solusspider

I was running my RasPi "server" on an SSD connected to a USB3-to-SATA adapter, but I wanted to transfer it over to a USB 3 SSD so I could put the SATA SSD in my ThinkCentre. I don't know how I lucked out, but the two SSDs are the same size down to the BYTE.

I dd'ed the data from the SATA SSD to the USB3 SSD overnight, plugged the USB3 SSD into my rPi, and boom, it booted and everything's fine there.

Put the SATA SSD into the ThinkCentre (man, that plastic drive cage/carrier/rail was terrible! XD) and formatted with KDE Partition Manager.

Total panic on boot; it didn't know how to prompt for a password to the SSD, which was set to be /home.

Did some "ducking" around just now, and I know how to add a keyfile, so I should be able to get it running tonight with the 1TB SSD as my /home and the NVME as /.

So far, so good!

Looking forward to getting my package scripts working with eopkg. The syntax is pretty nice and obvious, way easier than Arch's pacman or the various disparate pkg_ utilities in OpenBSD.

#Solus #SolusLinux

@Hors_Systeme Tried out #SolusLinux Gorgeous. And I dig the store & package manager. Budgie version is definitely lighter than elementary with GNOME.

Seems performant, pretty, and practical. Solus is now definitely top of my list when it comes to #linux distros. 5 thumbs up 👍👍👍👍👍

me mude a #soluslinux gente les cuento mi experiencia:

bonita distro,esta infravalorada,e pedido ayuda y e preguntado cosas sobre la distro en el foro de solus y muchos me respondieron de una manera muy amable,no se burlaron de mi por no saber nada o similares.

en cuanto a uso se resume en:
rapida
estable
sus repos tienen lo esencial
budgie desktop es hermoso y se siente bastante practico.

la recomendaria?
SIIIIIIII

Maybe it's time to retry #Solus (@Solus) ! :solus:

Personal interest :
› GNOME 46.5
› Linux Kernel 6.10.13
› Usr-Merge
› Flathub by default

› https://getsol.us/2024/10/14/solus-4-6-released/

#SolusOS #SolusLinux #Linux

Just unboxed my @starlabssystems #Starlite5 #starlite tablet deciding between installing #Solus #soluslinux or #VanillaOS #linux #gnulinux

Solus wechsel von Snap zu Flatpak https://fosstopia.de/solus-wechsel-von-snap-zu-flatpak/ #Flatpak #Snap #SoftwareContainer #Solus #SolusLinux

@viennawriter
Für jeden der "eine Schreibmaschine mit Internetzugang" sucht, gibt es nicht einen vernünftigen Grund Windows zu nutzen.
Traut euch, es gibt nicht viel Software die exklusiv auf Windows läuft.
#linux #linuxgaming #soluslinux

Alright, so "later tonight" turned into the next day but that's okay!

NEW VIDEO! Tune in to see the wild #history of #soluslinux

If you'd be so kind as to #boost this for me, I'd really appreciate it. I love #creating content and the more eyes to see this the better. <3

https://youtu.be/0rrgr35dzj4

New Video Coming Out Tonight! We're gonna be checking out #soluslinux and also the #Budgie #desktop #environment because I've never looked at either.

Because I think that random "distro reviews" are pretty boring - I'm putting a #historical twist on it. Basically, from here on out if I ever check out a #Linux distribution for the channel, we will dive into the #history of that distro. Talk about who created it, when it was first released, etc. I think it adds at least something to the video instead of whipping up a random distro and looking at the default applications for 30+ minutes.

So, tune in later tonight at https://www.youtube.com/@thelinuxfraud

Also, subscribe if you're into that kind of thing 😀​

#SolusLinux news.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/12ndt7u/righting_the_ship/

I’d like to pour one out for Solus Linux, project appears dead.

RIP you beautiful legend, you were the fastest and the cleanest.

#solus #soluslinux #linux #rip

Solus 4.3 Released with Linux Kernel 5.13, KDE Plasma 5.22, and GNOME 40.2

https://9to5linux.com/solus-4-3-released-with-linux-kernel-5-13-kde-plasma-5-22-and-gnome-40-2

#Solus #Linuxdistribution #SolusLinux