Solus Operating System 1.0 Provides New Linux Desktop Experience

Among the many features of the Solus Project’s new Linux distribution is the new Budgie desktop environment. Here’s what else Solus Operating System 1.0 offers.

As is the case with other modern Linux distributions, Solus can be installed as a “Live Linux” image from a USB key, without the need to install on a hard disk. Users can choose to install to a hard drive as well.

The Budgie desktop is a new user interface for Linux that provides users with an accessible desktop approach.

Raven is an applet, notification and customization center for the Budgie desktop.

One of the primary usability features of Budgie is its robust settings options, which enable users to customize multiple facets of the desktop environment’s look and operations.

Budgie itself is a fully open-source project with full source code available on GitHub, with packages for multiple Linux distributions.

As Solus is not based on any other upstream Linux distribution, it doesn’t use the common deb or rpm package managers, but rather uses the eopkg system.

As is common for many modern Linux desktop operating systems, Mozilla’s Firefox is the default Web browser.

Solus includes a number of privacy controls to help protect users and improve security.

While Solus contains a default slate of applications, users can easily extend that base via the integration software center.

At the heart of the Solus Operating System 1.0 release is a new Linux 4.3 kernel.