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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.

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BeginnerRolling Releasebeginner-friendlydesktoplive
Technical Specs
BaseIndependent
Package Managereopkg, flatpak
Init Systemsystemd
Latest Version4.9
Release ModelRolling Release
Release DateApril 18, 2026
Architecture
x86_64
Desktop Environments
BudgieGNOMEKDE PlasmaXfce

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.