Homegrown Budgie Desktop Shows Off the Beauty – and Beastliness – of Solus Simplicity

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Jack Germain
Aug 1, 2016

The Solus Project version 1.2, released last month, shows considerable maturity in the homegrown Budgie desktop.

Solus 1.2 is the second minor release in the Shannon series, built around a custom Budgie desktop developed in-house and the eopkg package manager forked from PiSi. Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch.

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Jack Germain

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