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Hello everyone! We want to talk about our licensing situation and our plan regarding it. Let’s dive in!

Solus 4.9 featured image It’s time for the first Solus release of 2026! We’ve made some under-the-hood changes aimed at making it easier and more intuitive for users to manage their systems, and we’ve addressed some parts of the installation process. Welcome to Solus 4.9 Serenity! In a world filled with turbulence, we aim to provide a calm harbor. Read on to see what’s new.

PACKED update! Kernels, Plasma, QT, KDE Frameworks/Gear, LLVM, Rust, Ardour, and so on.

More security updates for the kernels! Our package manager eopkg also received optimization updates. Plus many other package and security updates!

Updates include Kernels (7.0.5 / 6.18.28) for the DirtyFrag vulnerability and Clear Boot Manager to help with smaller EFI partitions. Plus many others.

After Zorin OS 18.1 took my breath away, I wondered how well the latest Solus Linux would fare against it. My comparison proved very interesting indeed.

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We are aware of the ongoing discussions surrounding age verification laws. Privacy and user experience remain our priorities. We have no plans to implement age verification and will continue to monitor the situation. We hear your concerns and understand the uncertainty surrounding these growing movements. This isn’t an isolated issue confined to a single place or country. it’s a complex, global patchwork of proposed laws, each with vastly different requirements and enforcement methods. Right now, it remains unclear which of these will actually become law, how they will be enforced, or whether they will directly affect Solus and other Linux-based operating systems.

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The official Forums of Solus

The official Forums of Solus

The official Forums of Solus

The official Forums of Solus

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The official Forums of Solus

The official Forums of Solus

The official Forums of Solus

The official Forums of Solus

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We’re nearing the holiday season, and what better way to kick it off than by releasing new Solus ISOs? This release is called Opportunity, for all the new opportunities that are open to us. A lot has happened since we released Solus 4.7 at the beginning of this year, so let’s go over the changes. General Epoch jump In October, we made the jump to a new epoch, the final chapter of our “Usr-Merge” saga. With the new epoch, we started using a new package repository, named Polaris, after the North Star. This unlocked our ability to remove “Usr-Merge” compatibility symbolic links from packages, update our systemd package, and more.

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Heya folks, we have some exciting news to share! Today, after many months of work, Solus has a new website! A lot of work has gone into this project, and we are all very excited to finally deploy it for everyone to use.

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The official Forums of Solus

The official Forums of Solus

Heya, folks! We have some information about #GNOME and #X11 ahead of the upcoming sync with GNOME 49.

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The official Forums of Solus

The official Forums of Solus

Have you read the Solus Hacktoberfest blog post yet? If not, go check it out first. Done? Great, let’s dive in.

I like simple and clean setup.

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