All of our editions feature: Firefox 85.0, LibreOffice 7.0.4.2, Thunderbird 78.6.1. This release delivers new desktop environment updates, software stacks, and hardware enablement. 'We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Solus 4.2, a new Solus 4 Fortitude series release. The Budgie desktop has gain improvements and features a new system tray and better support for desktop icons. The projects latest version is 4.2 which includes package updates across key components. 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. Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch.
It features the GNOME 2 desktop, a good selection of default applications for everyday tasks, updated software applications from Debian 'backports' and the project's own repositories, a complete set of multimedia plugins, a custom GNOME menu, and an intuitive graphical installer. SolusOS is a beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution based on the latest stable release of Debian GNU/Linux.