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Solus

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Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and its flagship edition uses the Budgie desktop environment.

Technical Specs
Base
Independent
Package Manager
Init System
Latest Version
4.9
Release Model
rolling release
Release Date
April 18, 2026
Architecture
x86_64
Desktop Environments

About Solus

Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and its flagship edition uses the Budgie desktop environment. Budgie was originally developed-in-house, but is now maintained as a separate project by the Buddies of Budgie team. Solus is available in GNOME, KDE Plasma and Xfce editions.

Highlights

  • -Desktop system developing its own innovative Budgie graphical shell.