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Solus Project's Joshua Strobl announced today in a lengthy blog post that the long-anticipated Solus 4 operating system release will finally arrive in Spring 2019 along with the Budgie 10.5 desktop environment.

Solus is a next-generation Linux kernel-based operating system, built from scratch and based on powerful, modern open-source technologies, such as the systemd init system and the groundbreaking Budgie Desktop graphical environment. This video tutorial shows Solus 3 Budgie Desktop installation on Oracle VirtualBox step by step. This tutorial is also helpful to install Solus 3 Budgie on physical computer or laptop hardware.

It's been a year since the former leader of the Solus Project, Ikey Doherty, promised us the release of Solus 4, but after many trials and tribulations the team is now stable and ready to continue from where they left off. According to experience lead developer Joshua Strobl, the Solus 4 release is on its way very soon, as soon as Budgie 10.5 desktop environment hits the streets.

'I’m hoping that Budgie 10.5 will be ready for release in the next few weeks, which also means Solus 4 will also be released, finally moving us away from the Solus 3.x release and subsequent ISO refresh and opening the door to our previously announced change in our In Full Sail blog post to how we release new versions of Solus,' said Joshua Strobl.

Of course, Solus being a rolling release distribution means that the Solus 4 release will be just another ISO snapshot with up-to-date packages and all the latest security fixes. However, the Solus community wanted a Solus 4 release for so long, and it's a good thing to have a fresh image at hand for new deployments of the operating system without having to download hundreds of updates after installation.

Besides the Budgie edition, the Solus 4 release will also bring the latest GNOME 3.30 desktop environment, which could land in the Solus 4.1 point release planned for February-March 2019. On the other hand, the team stated that they wouldn't continue updating the Budgie 10 series with further point release, but instead concentrate their efforts on a major update, Budgie 11.

Budgie 11 could be released in 2020

The development cycle of the Budgie 11 desktop environment will kick off this spring, and Joshua Strobl says it plans to release the first alpha version for public testing in August, and public beta builds of Budgie 11 should hit the streets by the end of the year. This means that the final release of the Budgie 11 desktop environment could see the light of day sometime in Spring 2020.

In 2019, the Solus Project will also concentrate their efforts on improving the Software Center, the Sol next-generation package manager, web infrastructure, the YPKG build format and packaging tool, the Linux Hardware Qualifier tool, and other developer-oriented tools. In conclusion, we can finally say that the Solus team is back and you should expect amazing things from this independent Linux OS.

The Budgie Desktop is a feature-rich, modern desktop designed to keep out the way of the user.

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Project Updates

Announcement for Budgie 11

In our 2019: To Venture Ahead blog post, we formally announced the return of Budgie development in April, with planned alpha and beta builds later in the year.

Move to GTK4

In our In Full Sail blog post, we announced that Budgie 11 will be written in C and GTK4. The plan is to further support Vala for Budgie plugins.

In addition to this, this repository will not be used for Budgie beyond 10.5 series, as various changes in leadership (departure of project founder) without a complete transition has resulted in this repository (and its org) not being under the complete ownership of the Solus Core Team. Future development will happen across both the Solus Development Tracker as well as our GetSolus organization.

Re-merge into the Solus Project

On May 20th 2018, the Budgie Desktop project merged back into the Solus Project umbrella, making it a distinct Solus project once more.Contributions from all distributions, projects and individuals are welcome provided they add value and are of sufficient quality. We're happy to discusstest pull requests, which should be appropriately labeled as being Request For Comment[RFC].

Please note that we will not accept pull requests to add Pythonic applets. Any applets should be written in either C or Vala. Pull requests modifying any C source code should ensure to stick with code compliance. Run ./update_format.sh to ensure coding standards are respected. (Requires clang-format and misspell)

This decision has been made after a long time having Budgie Desktop being a separate project, which to this date has only repeatedly harmed the Budgie Desktop project due to other projects specifically looking to add vendor specific value-add and ensuring it is never upstream within this project. As such the project is now officially back under the stewardship of Solus (original authors) and will be developed with our goals in mind, as it once was. It should also be observed that Budgie had been an incredibly quiet project for almost the entire duration of the project being split out from Solus, something which we wished to remedy.

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Components

Budgie Desktop consists of a number of components to provide a more complete desktop experience.

Budgie Menu

The main Budgie menu provides a quick and easy to use menu, suitable for both mouse and keyboard driven users. Features type-as-you-search and category based filtering.

Raven

Raven provides an all-in-one center for accessing your calendar, controlling sound output and input (including per-app volume control), media playback and more. As well as supporting the usual level of media integration you'd expect, such as media player controls on notifications, support for cover artwork, and global media key support for keyboards, Raven supports all MPRIS compliant media players.

When one of these players are running, such as VLC, Rhythmbox or even Spotify, an MPRIS controller is made available in Raven for quick and simple control of the player, as well as data on the current media selection.

Raven also enables you to access missed notifications, with the ability to swipe away individual notifications, app notifications, and all notifications.

Notifications

Budgie Desktop supports the freedesktop notifications specification, enabling applications to send visual alerts to the user. These notifications support actions, icons as well as passive modes.

Run Dialog

The Budgie Run Dialog provides the means to quickly find an application in a popup window. This window by default is activated with the ALT+F2 keyboard shortcut, providing keyboard driven launcher facilities.

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Other

End Session Dialog

The session dialog provides the usual shutdown, logout, options which can be activated using the User Indicator applet.

PolicyKit integration

The budgie-polkit-dialog provides a PolicyKit agent for the session, ensuring a cohesive and integrated experience whilst authenticating for actions on modern Linux desktop systems.

Testing

As and when new features are implemented - it can be helpful to reset the configuration to the defaults to ensure everything is still working ok. To reset the entire configuration tree, issue:

License

budgie-desktop is available under a split license model. This enables developers to link against the libraries of budgie-desktop without affecting their choice of license and distribution.

The shared libraries are available under the terms of the LGPL-2.1, allowing developers to link against the API without any issue, and to use all exposed APIs without affecting their project license.

The remainder of the project (i.e. installed binaries) is available under the terms of the GPL 2.0 license. This is clarified in the headers of each source file.

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