Solus Upgraded to the GNOME 3.20 Stack, Now Powered by Linux Kernel 4.7 | Linux Today

Solus Upgraded to the GNOME 3.20 Stack, Now Powered by Linux Kernel 4.7

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Marius Nestor
Aug 8, 2016

After many weeks of hard work, project leader Ikey Doherty finally managed to upgrade the entire GNOME Stack used in Solus from version 3.18 to 3.20, the latest and most advanced one. Therefore, all the graphical applications that are usually distributed as part of the GNOME desktop environment are now from the 3.20.x series. Another major change in Solus is the implementation of the latest Linux 4.7 kernel, which promises to bring better hardware support and under-the-hood improvements, such as full AMDGPU support, Power Play support, Nvidia GeForce 800M support, complete Maxwell support, C720 trackpad support, as well as USB 3.1 support.

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Marius Nestor

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