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Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live CD/USB medium based on Slackware Linux. The distribution started as a community remix of Slax, another Slackware-based live CD, with KDE 3 as the default desktop for the i486 edition and a stripped-down KDE 4 as the desktop environment for the x86_64 flavour. There are now several desktop flavours of the distribution, which include editions running Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce.
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| 2024-01-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 4.5 |
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Solus is an independent Linux distribution featuring the eopkg package manager and the flagship edition runs the Budgie desktop environment. The latest release of Solus, version 4.5, introduces a new desktop spin for Xfce (which is considered to be in beta status) and switches to the Calamares system installer to get the system up and running. "The Solus team is proud to announce the release of Solus 4.5 Resilience. This release brings updated applications and kernels, refreshed software stacks, a new installer, and a new ISO edition featuring the Xfce desktop environment. With Solus 4.5 comes a new installation experience using the Calamares installer. This enables easier installation using filesystems like BTRFS, specifying your own partition layout right in the installer, and it’s a major step in migrating away from Python 2, which the old os-installer was written in. A ton of work has gone into the new installation experience, and we are glad to finally release it to everyone!" A complete list of changes and an overview of key package updates can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): Solus-4.5-Budgie.iso (2,534MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.5-GNOME.iso (2,725MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.5-Plasma.iso (2,579MB, SHA256, signature, torrent).
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| 2023-07-08 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 4.4 |
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The project has released its first new stable release in two years. The rolling release's latest version, Solus 4.4, offers four desktop editions: Budgie, KDE Plasma, MATE and GNOME. "All our editions feature: Firefox 114.0.1, LibreOffice 7.5.3.2, Thunderbird 102.12.0, For audio and video multimedia playback, we offer software out-of-the-box that caters specifically to our desired experience for each edition. Budgie, GNOME, and MATE editions all ship with Rhythmbox for audio playback, with the latest release of the Alternate Toolbar extension to provide a more modern user experience. Budgie and GNOME ship with Celluloid for video playback. MATE ships with VLC for video playback. Plasma ships with Elisa for audio playback and Haruna for video playback. Hardware and Kernel Enablement: This release of Solus ships with Linux kernel 6.3.8, enabling us to provide support for a broader range of hardware, such as: Secure Boot support. See our documentation for enablement." The release announcement has additional information. Download (pkglist): Solus-4.4-Budgie.iso (2,315MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.4-Plasma.iso (2,475MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.4-GNOME.iso (2,512MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.4-MATE.iso (2,292MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2021-07-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 4.3 |
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Solus is an independent, rolling-release, desktop Linux distribution. The project is available in four desktop flavours, the primary one being the project's custom Budgie graphical user interface. Its latest release, Solus 4.3, features a number of improvements to multimedia and hardware support, as well as an update to Budgie. "Solus 4.3 ships with version 0.9.0 of the dav1d AV1 decoder, which should provide a large boost to high-bitdepth decoding on AVX2 supported CPUs. We also ship with PulseAudio 14.2, which fixes a bug related to unplug event handling. Solus ships with the latest release of our flagship desktop environment, Budgie 10.5.3. This features GNOME 40 stack support alongside all the fixes and quality-of-life improvements listed below. We welcome you to check out the full release notes listed above. Budgie 10.5.3 introduces fixes to Budgie panel applets, Raven, and various window state tracking. Drop use of Queue and Cancellable in Raven's NotificationView. Instead of using a Queue, just update a reference to a NotificationWindow since we only really cared about the head of the Queue to begin with." Additional information is provided in the distribution's release announcement. Download (pkglist): Solus-4.3-Budgie.iso (1,857MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.3-GNOME.iso (2,073MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.3-MATE.iso (1,838MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.3-Plasma.iso (2,042MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2021-02-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 4.2 |
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Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and a custom desktop environment called "Budgie", developed in-house. The project's latest version is 4.2 which includes package updates across key components. The Budgie desktop has gain improvements and features a new system tray and better support for desktop icons. "We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Solus 4.2, a new Solus 4 Fortitude series release. This release delivers new desktop environment updates, software stacks, and hardware enablement. All of our editions feature: Firefox 85.0, LibreOffice 7.0.4.2, Thunderbird 78.6.1. For audio and video multimedia playback, we offer software out-of-the-box that caters specifically to our desired experience for each edition. Budgie, GNOME, and MATE editions all ship with Rhythmbox for audio playback, with the latest release of the Alternate Toolbar extension to provide a more modern user experience. Budgie and GNOME ship with GNOME MPV for video playback. MATE ships with VLC for video playback. Plasma ships with Elisa for audio playback and SMPlayer for video playback." The release announcement offers further information. Download (pkglist): Solus-4.2-Budgie.iso (1,804MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.2-GNOME.iso (2,064MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.2-MATE.iso (1,776MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.2-Plasma.iso (1,904MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2020-01-25 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 4.1 |
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Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and a custom desktop environment called "Budgie", developed in-house. The project's latest release is Solus 4.1 which offers many updates and should provide a faster install process thanks to using a different format for compression: "Solus 4.1 is the first ISO release to feature the use of Zstandard (zstd) compression for the SquashFS images. Compared to the xz compressed ISOs from previous releases, the ztsd compressed size is a little bit larger. But as a result, the decompression times are significantly improved (3-4x), leading to a much faster installation process than ever previously achieved. In most cases, you can expect to spend more time filling out the questions in the installation wizard than it will actually take to copy everything to disk. We hope you are just as surprised as we were at just how fast this process has become." The project's release announcement offers further details. Download: Solus-4.1-Budgie.iso (1,692MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.1-GNOME.iso (1,873MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.1-MATE.iso (1,662MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.1-Plasma.iso (1,825MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2019-03-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 4.0 |
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Joshua Strobl has announced the release of Solus 4.0, an independently-developed desktop Linux distribution featuring the simple but efficient Budgie desktop (separate editions with GNOME and MATE desktop environments are also available) and a custom package management called eopkg. From the release announcement: "We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Solus 4 'Fortitude', a new major release of the Solus operating system. This release delivers a brand new Budgie experience, updated sets of default applications and theming, and hardware enablement. All our editions feature: Firefox 65.0.1, LibreOffice 6.2.1, Rhythmbox 3.4.3 with the latest release of the Alternate Toolbar extension, Thunderbird 60.5.2. Our Budgie and GNOME editions ship with GNOME MPV 0.16 and our MATE Edition ships with VLC 3.0.6. This release of Solus ships with Linux kernel 4.20.16, enabling us to provide support for AMD Picasso and Raven2 APUs, AMD Vega20 and broader Vega10 enablement, as well as improved support for Intel Coffee Lake and Ice Lake CPUs. Furthermore, Linux kernel 4.20 expands our support for other hardware devices, such as touchpad support for the Lenovo IdeaPad 130-15IKB and 330-15ARR." Download links (pkglist): Solus-4.0-Budgie.iso (1,430MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, Solus-4.0-GNOME.iso (1,446MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.0-MATE.iso (1,405MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2017-08-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 3 |
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Solus is an independently-developed desktop Linux distribution. While the distribution is available in three editions (Budgie, GNOME and MATE), the project is perhaps best known for its work showcasing the Budgie desktop environment on a rolling-release platform. The project's latest release, Solus 3, features Firefox 55, LibreOffice 5.4, and a cutting-edge version of the Linux kernel: "This new major version of Solus is now based on the latest stable branch of the Linux kernel, 4.12.7. This switch enables various hardware improvements for the latest AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA hardware. Users of the existing Linux-LTS kernel will continue to receive updates indefinitely, with the next major update to this branch scheduled to land in or around September. Furthermore, we've enabled AppArmor LSM by default to provide functionality for snapd confining, as well as the introduction of a fully functioning Linux Security Module within our kernel builds." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): Solus-3-Budgie.iso (1,174MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, Solus-3-GNOME.iso (1,268MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-3-MATE.iso (1,280MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2017-04-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 2017.04.18.0 |
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Joshua Strobl has announced the availability of an updated release of Solus, an independent, desktop-focused Linux distribution. Besides the standard edition featuring the Budgie desktop (developed in house), this version also comes in a MATE variant as well as a brand-new GNOME 3.24 flavour: "We're proud to announce our second ISO image snapshot, 2017.04.18.0, across our Budgie and MATE editions, as well as our new GNOME edition. This snapshot is the culmination of months of work across nearly every aspect of our operating system, ranging from multiple under-the-hood upgrades and changes to improvements to our desktop experiences. This snapshot is the first to deliver bulletproof boot management out-of-the-box, leveraging clr-boot-manager to enable the maintenance and garbage collection of kernels, as well as configuration of the bootloader. Furthermore, clr-boot-manager enables the retention of known-working kernels, so you can always roll back to a prior kernel." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and screenshots. Download (pkglist): Solus-2017.04.18.0-Budgie.iso (1,145MB, SHA256, signature), Solus-2017.04.18.0-GNOME.iso (1,158MB, SHA256, signature), Solus-2017.04.18.0-MATE.iso (1,181MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2017-01-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 2017.01.01.0 |
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Joshua Strobl has announced the release of a new Solus snapshot. Solus is an independent Linux distribution which uses the eopkg package manager (a fork of the PiSi package manager). The new snapshot, Solus 2017.01.01.0, is available in two editions (Budgie and MATE) and features support for mounting more devices over MTP, the VLC multimedia player can now play files over Samba and SFTP connections, and the distribution ships with version 4.8.15 of the Linux kernel. "We're happy to be kicking off the new year with the release of our first ISO snapshot, 2017.01.01.0, across our Budgie and MATE editions. The out-of-the-box experience for shipped applications in Solus has improved, as we've worked towards enabling a larger set of features for them. A larger set of devices are now supported for MTP mounting, thanks to an upgraded libmtp. Evince can now handle PS and XPS files. Our package manager, eopkg, has received performance improvements as well as a fix to statelessness that'd cause the Software Center to hang." Further information and a detailed list of changes can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): Solus-2017.01.01.0-Budgie.iso (976MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-2017.01.01.0-MATE.iso (961MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2016-10-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 1.2.1 |
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Joshua Strobl has announced the release of a new version of the Solus distribution. The latest release, Solus 1.2.1, offers users the most up to date version of the Budgie desktop environment and introduces a new MATE edition of the Solus distribution. Solus 1.2.1 also features IBUS support to enable multi-lingual input, introduces a Places applet for quick file system navigation and polishes the audio and brightness controls. "The Solus project is proud to announce the availability of Solus 1.2.1, delivered in the form of our main edition, which provides an unrivalled Budgie experience, as well as a new and welcomed addition to the Solus family, Solus 1.2.1 MATE edition. While Solus 1.2.1 is the first release to have a new addition, it is also the last of our traditional releases as we shift towards the ISO snapshot model, which better reflects our agility and iteration speed." Further details and screen shots highlighting the new features can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256) (pkglist): Solus-1.2.1.iso (1,013MB, torrent, signature), Solus-1.2.1-MATE.iso (971MB, torrent, signature). |
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| 2016-09-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 1.2.0.5 |
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Joshua Strobl has announced the release of Solus 1.2.0.5, the latest stable version of the desktop-oriented Linux distribution with the home-built Budgie as the preferred desktop user interface. Despite the tiny increment in the version number, the new release is packed with fresh software updates, including the latest stable kernel, as well as bug fixes. "Solus 1.2.0.5 released. Today we are providing a minor update to Solus 1.2 in the form of Solus 1.2.0.5. This release enables us to address a multitude of issues that have since been resolved after the release of Solus 1.2. Budgie: battery icon refresh issues were solved; we resolved an issue where the keyboard layout would revert to the default guessed layout for the locale on login; we switched to GNOME Screensaver for screen locking and power management. Installation: issues using Solus and the installation media on some hardware configurations, such as NVIDIA Maxwell cards and Intel Skylake processors; we solved an issue whereby the installer might hang scanning disks. We have delivered an updated GNOME 3.20 Stack, PulseAudio 9, as well as Mesa 12." Read the rest of the release announcement for full details and screenshots. Download (SHA256): Solus-1.2.0.5.iso (946MB). |
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| 2016-06-20 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 1.2 |
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Josh Strobl has announced the release of Solus 1.2, a new version of the project's Linux distribution that features a custom desktop (Budgie) and package manager (eopkg): "We are proud to announce the release of Solus 1.2, the second minor release in the Shannon series of releases. Solus 1.2 builds upon the groundwork of 1.1 and 1.0, with continued improvements to Budgie, a huge focus on software optimizations, in addition to laying the framework for providing a performant gaming experience. Solus 1.2 furthers us on our journey to realizing the future of home computing. We have continued to improve Budgie over the course of the Solus 1.2 development cycle, with development changes shipping in Solus 1.2. This release features a multitude of bug fixes and some of the following highlighted improvements: fix stretching of GTK+ Switches in CSS themes; fixed some untranslatable strings; icon and GTK+ themes are now properly detected using our new ThemeScanner; notifications will no longer expand Raven; resolved drawing issues for Calendar, Sound and MPRIS applets...." Continue to the release announcement which includes a number of screenshots. Download (SHA256): Solus-1.2.iso (847MB). |
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| 2016-03-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 1.1 |
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Josh Strobl has announced the release of Solus 1.1, an update to the project's inaugural stable release delivered in December. Solus is a simple desktop Linux distribution featuring a home-made desktop environment (Budgie) and a custom package manager (eopkg). This minor point release brings improvements to the Budgie desktop, streamlined system installer and updated software packages: "We are proud to announce the release of Solus 1.1, the first point release in the 'Shannon' series of releases. Solus 1.1 builds upon the groundwork of 1.0 with subtle refinements and improvements to Budgie, large core and graphics stack improvements, and furthers us on our journey to create something that you can just use, something that just works. Budgie is our flagship desktop environment, developed and designed for the desktop, with every inch of it catering to a desktop workflow. We have continued to improve Budgie, with version 10.2.4 shipping in Solus 1.1. This release features a multitude of bug fixes, improvements and updated translations." Here is the full release announcement with screenshots. Download (SHA256) the live DVD image (available for the x86_64 architecture only) from here: Solus-1.1.iso (781MB). |
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| 2015-12-27 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 1.0 |
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Ikey Doherty has announced the release of Solus 1.0, the first stable release from the Linux distribution project that delivers a home-made desktop environment called "Budgie" and a custom package manager named "eopkg": "The Solus project is proud to announce the release of the first version of its operating system. Solus 1.0 is code-named 'Shannon' after the longest river in Ireland. Solus 1.0 is the result of over eight months of work, coalesced from over a dozen contributors, over 2,000 package builds, a rewrite of the premier desktop environment Budgie, and more. Solus is a Linux-based operating system built from scratch for the modern desktop and targeting the x86_64 architecture. The Solus project develops a GTK+-based desktop environment referred to as Budgie. Budgie ships with a multitude of features. Budgie has been tested and refined to ensure that high-contrast theming works out of the box, enabling usage by individuals with visual impairments. This Budgie menu enables quick access to your installed programs and offers category and compact views." Continue to the release announcement for further information and screenshots. Download (SHA256): Solus-1.0.iso (819MB, torrent). |
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| 2015-10-30 |
NEW • Development Release: Solus 1.0 RC1 |
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Ikey Doherty has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Solus 1.0, a Linux distribution featuring a custom desktop environment called "Budgie" and a package manager named "eopkg" (forked from Pardus Linux): "The Solus project is happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of the Solus operating system. Budgie has been updated to improve stability and is a stability and maintenance update prior to the landing of the new Budgie rewrite and Raven (our notification center), landing in a future update. DoFlicky, the new driver management tool of Solus, is now available for testing as of this release candidate. DoFlicky will be accompanied by installable drivers for broadcom-sta, NVIDIA 304, 340xx, 352. With our driver management software landing, we will integrate 32-bit 'multilib' support after ensuring there are no further issues with DoFlicky. Due to the quality of the proprietary AMD drivers (fglrx), we will not be providing them at this moment in time. We will provide them as an update after RC1." See the release announcement for further information and screenshots. Download (SHA256) the live DVD image from here: Solus-RC1.iso (739MB, torrent). |
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| 2015-05-17 |
NEW • Development Release: Solus 1.0 Beta 2 |
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Ikey Doherty has announced the availability of the second beta build of Solus (formerly Evolve OS) 1.0, a Linux distribution with a custom desktop (Budgie) and package manager (eopkg): "The Solus project team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Solus Operating System beta 2. This release is available for 64-bit systems, and is now available for EFI machines. This release is the first new ISO since our project rebrand and it marks many technological changes. We've switched to HTTPS-only software repositories and implemented delta updates with highly compressed packages for quick, safe and bandwidth-friendly software management. Driver management is now available for NVIDIA users, while AMD driver management will feature in the coming weeks. Core changes: Linux kernel 4.0.3, GNOME Stack 3.16.3 Budgie desktop 8.2, Firefox 38.0.1; UEFI support (boot and installation); NVIDIA proprietary driver support (346.xxx); switched to Solus-specific artwork - EvoPop; X.Org 1.17.1 with MESA 10.5.3; completed rebrand." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (SHA256): Solus-Beta2.iso (712MB). |
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| 2015-03-16 |
NEW • Development Release: Evolve OS Beta 1.1 |
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Ikey Doherty has announced the availability of a new development build of Evolve OS, a desktop Linux distribution featuring a desktop called "Budgie" and a custom package manager named "eopkg": "The Evolve OS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Evolve OS Beta 1.1. This release focuses on stability and on bringing the core system up to scratch. Please note that as this is an update to beta 1, changes that are intended for beta 2 (such as UEFI support) are be present. Also note Evolve OS is only available as a 64-bit system. Core changes: Linux kernel 3.19.1, GCC 4.9.2, Clang/LLVM 3.5.0, systemd 218. Many Evolve OS packages are now being built with Clang by default and, as such, we have begun to reduce the overall footprint of the system. A live boot Evolve OS beta 1.1 (via USB) will use around 185 - 190 MB of RAM idle on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon, and boots in 2.3 seconds on an Intel NUC (D54250WYK) installation. With our last ISO image some users were unable to boot due to a conflict regarding USB 3. This has since been resolved." Here is the full release announcement. Download (SHA256): Evolve-OS-Beta1.1.iso (757MB, pkglist). |
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| 2015-01-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Evolve OS Beta 1 |
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Ikey Doherty has announced the availability of the first beta release of Evolve OS, a desktop Linux distribution built from scratch, with a home-made desktop called "Budgie" and a custom package manager forked from Pardus Linux: "The Evolve OS team is proud to announce the release of Evolve OS beta 1. Evolve OS is an independent Linux distribution featuring the Budgie desktop, aimed at desktop users. Evolve OS now features a preliminary version of evolve-sc, the Evolve OS Software Center. Its aim is to simplify the updating and installation of software, providing a simple interface to get the job done. Budgie Desktop is currently in sync with our latest development version, and is now built upon the GNOME 3.14.2 stack. Consequently many existing issues with the desktop have been resolved, which provides a far more stable experience than previous versions. Evolve OS now ships by default with support for many formats and includes many codecs." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details and screenshots of the Budgie desktop. Download (MD5): Evolve-OS-Beta1.iso (754MB, pkglist). |
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