Readers of this blog will realize that I am a loyal user of Debian as distribution and Xfce as Desktop Environment, but passion does not blind me, sometimes there are moments when I feel the absence of some functionalities that my favorite desktop lacks.
I do not use KDE for various reasons that are now irrelevant to mention, so I am Gnome. Gnome Shell I don't particularly like it at all, and although many users are happy with it, at least it seems to me that it is not designed for use on PC, so I could use other Shells as an alternative.
Based on my personal taste, I only have 3 options: Xfce (with its shortcomings, it is still my favorite desktop), Cinnamon (like Shell for Gnome) y Gnome classic o fallback. Unity could be a viable option if it were available in Debian, But is not the case. Cinnamon ya we saw that currently it cannot be installed on Debian, and it's a shame because he would be the ideal candidate and Gnome fallbackWell, it doesn't work as well as I would like and it has a lot of details to polish.
That's where it comes in SolusOS, a distribution of which we have already spoken in DesdeLinux and that precisely polishes those details that bother me so much Gnome fallback. One of them, to mention some, are the icons in the notification area, which by default are large and ugly, something that has been corrected by Ikey Doherty.
SolusOS, in its version 2, is already in the Alpha 5 and in a very short time the release of the version Stable. Viewing the images on the account G + from Ikey, I have noticed that you are doing a final job with the artwork of the distribution. Let us remember that we are talking about that it is based Debian Testing (Points in favor), and on top of this, a series of super updated packages that Debian by default it does not provide.
So if you can have a Classic Gnome in terms of appearance, using the technology of Gnome 3.4, well polished, about Debian Testing and with updated packages as I said, what more could you ask for? SolusOS It would become my favorite distribution, as long as when testing it, there is nothing that is unsatisfactory.
For now here are some images of how the Alpha 5:
You have one option ... use Mate 😉
Mate but with steroids, that is ... you polish it WELL, you do a little magic and voila, you have it shiny 😀
Not to mention, as much as they can put it, it is still Gnome2 and I don't think the MATE guys will be able to take it to a higher level in the short term ..
By the way ... there are many (MANY) who after 'discovering' SolusOS pass, you are ... Yoyo, and several more that I have read on Twitter, ... damn, I'll have to give you a taste to see haha
I don't think you like it, in the end you are a KDE user and SolusOS is Gnome.
Indeed 🙁… that's what stops me the most. Well being honest ... that and that my Debian Testing + KDE works for me so, so well, it does not give me errors, it allows me to concentrate on working and nothing else ... that it has bought me 😀
You are an inveterate fan of KDE, and if you don't use QT, it's like you're not breathing… fanboy ¬ ¬ hahaha
I used Gnome2 for a long time ... and as comfortable as ever 😀
But you didn't use #! ??? 😀
If you still like minimalist Debian-based, Semplice is tha-way-2-go!
Nope not really haha.
I am a very happy KDE user 😀
Maybe I really want to try it, but I'm scared ... what if I fall in love and leave my dear Arch? O_O
HAHAHAHA it's a possibility… there the love for Arch will be tested, and we'll know if it's real or fantasy LOL !!!
If you do that, I would advise a full face operation and name and surname change immediately.
I tried the Alpha4 and I was not quite convinced, although I do find what they are doing interesting, because with gnome shell, many of us have been left without knowing what to use or which distro to choose ...
Over the weekend I installed Debian GNU / Linux (Sid), with xfce 4.8 desktop and I made some customizations to it and I really liked it.
I have already used debian and xfce several times, in the end I have opted to use kde in arch, but I am more concerned with people who are more or less new, who use the desktop daily but have no knowledge about the system and that with the replacement of gome2 by gnome shell and with the appearance of unity in ubuntu it has been a bit in no man's land without knowing which linux to use. And I say this because I know specific cases, apart from what is read in forums and blogs.
I imagine that we would have to take into account how long he has only lived
In my case it is no longer close to being my favorite distro .. in my case it was since it was introduced to me in G +, I downloaded it, installed it, and fell in love 🙂
SolusOS, the beautiful and gifted daughter of Debian 🙂
But this distro was not based on debian stable ?? I am also a kde user but there is always a virtual machine at hand to test.
The first version yes, but one is working on one about Debian Testing.
elav <° Linux and KZKG ^ Gaara… Why can't you use Fedora or Open Suse?
Do you have problems downloading any of these distros there in Cuba?
Sorry for the audacity but it is that for days I have been about to ask you this and it cannot be a better moment than this 🙂
I understand that in Cuba they have access to Debian, Ubuntu and Arch only.
proper I didn't know
Although I still do not understand why ???
So what's wrong with Fedora and why in Cuba they don't allow using this Distro?
I DON'T think it's for political reasons, I understand that the USA and Cuba don't get along at all, but do you really think that's the reason?
I answer you in a simple way:
The point is not that they are bad, but that they do not have free access to the internet, so if they do have it, it is very slow.
In Cuba there are mirrors of the Debian, Arch and Ubuntu repositories, which is why they are the only distros that can keep up to date without dying in the attempt.
Indeed, it is as nano explains.
As we have an internet SO but SO slow, using online repos (like everyone else) is impossible for us.
What we do is copy a repo (mirror) on our HDD, so we install from our HDD instead of needing internet (which is scarce here and you don't know how much).
The problem is that here there are many repos (mirrors) for Ubuntu and Debian, but for the rest of the distros almost none 🙁
No offense, but the people who lived in the stone age were more advanced than you Cubans.
When will you, remove those chains imposed by Castro?
Better not take the blog for this Diego, we still live in Cuba and we do not want to be censored by our ISPs (and believe me, neither protests nor Anonymous could help us) ..
Elav, I accept your criticism, it won't happen again.
Do not take it as a critic Diego, on the contrary, I just want things not to go away 😀
Don't worry 😉 ... just like he told you elavLet's try not to address political aspects, here we can have nothing nice 😉
I fully understand your position. And they have all the reason.
A greeting.
Greetings friend 😀
WTF
What about Funtoo, Source Mage, Gobolinux, Slitaz and the 4 million existing distros and derivatives?
At least they have access to Arch 🙂
Not really, what happens is that the aforementioned are the ones that are used the most around here.
The main problem is access to the repositories, I had to switch from Slackware to Debian for the same reason, but I still have servers in Slackware, which I update every so often, of course, but not as often as it should be ... it bothers a little ...
Servers with Slackware ... if that's what I say, you're suicidal HAHAHA
From what you write, it seems that you are only interested in the aesthetic aspect of the distros. It is true that it is important but so is the support behind a distribution.
From the ignorance of someone who for now has not tested it, I suspect that you should use Debian repos directly, I doubt that you have your own for most of the files, including security updates.
From what I imagine that the support is the one provided by Debian.
They have backports, I mean, they have small repositories to keep certain applications up to date and they use Debian repositories.
WTF
that's very true!
Support? Has anyone ever used that?
Yep, every time we ask or answer something in the comments or on the forum ... we have all sinned xD
I mean official support from the distro, which I think is what the commenter was referring to.
Yes, that's what I meant, I prefer universal distribution. Many of you know which distro I am talking about.
In this case, yes, I am only interested in aesthetics because speed, security, stability is already included as it is based on Debian Testing. 😀
I have two weeks using SolusOS. At first I installed it with the idea of it being my second distro, but it became my main distro. I think that those who have taken a look at several linux distros can see that SolusOS has everything that a "classic" linux user could ask for: it is a fast, stable distro, with a very nice aesthetic, it is "out of the box. box », very configurable whatever you put on it. It brings the Synaptic manager by default, just like compiz; Cairo-dock and Screenlets fit perfectly, it is the world of .deb, well, nothing is missing. Linux users running around testing distros should give this a try. By the way, if anyone thought Classic Gnome was dead they have to try SolusOS.
just for what you comment on classic gnome I will prove this distro
And so did LMDE suddenly fall from its ivory tower? Oh Clem, do you see what you're doing?
We who defend Arch are quite alone in this blog of debianites, I can imagine the whole pack against you for your comments. That if I agree with you 100%
Debianite blog? Nah, we use everything here. There was a time when fashion was Arch. Tell KZKG ^ Gaara to tell you his sad story hahaha.
Haha yes. In those days I was super in love with my Arch, elav also used Arch, and many readers that we had (and still have) militated the ranks of Arch hahaha.
Here we are not a blog that has a preference for one distro or another (like many blogs with Ubuntu for example) 😉
From Debianitas? But if Gaara is an archer at heart, Perseus is an inveterate Fedorite (who is making me an e-book about fedora) Elav if he is Debianita and I am Ubuntero ...
In fact ask about Arch in the forum and you will receive tons of answers xD
And the occasional Slacker turning xD
Count me in! xD, Slackware rulez !!!
Amen!
Hey as I understand ikey dohery collaborated in Linux mint or was from your team, how is that?
Ikey is the one who made LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). But now no more, apparently they had differences about how the LMDE course was going, in the end Ikey is no longer in LMDE.
Collaborated. Past ... Apparently something did not work well between him and Clem and he decided to create his own version of what would be LMDE.
Ok thanks for the info
Is there the option to download the Alpha 4 version by Torrent? I don't see the option anywhere
^ _ ^ that distro is tempting me vastly so I'm already downloading it XD, you can see the great job they do to be a good distro, that's great, in addition to being based on debian.
-ah something that I do not understand well, this distro uses the debian tensting branch therefore it would be a rolling release and it would be updated without the need to install everything from scratch? or it would be frozen like ubuntu that releases 2 versions a year and you have to install everything from scratch
I really don't know what to tell you right now, as Testing will be in a freezing stage in a few days. But in theory yes, it is a kind of Rolling.
Thanks for your answer XD hehe hours ago I tried to download it but when it reached almost 300mb the download was interrupted and I have to download it again, it is already 3 times what happens to me today.
Here I leave you the download links of v2 Alpha4 and the current stable one (v1.1), direct links from our server ... so I assure you they will not give problems 😉
Solus OS 2 Alpha4
Solus OS 1.1 (32bit)
If you need something else, tell me 😀
Thanks genius, I am getting them down to try it XD
okay 😉
Any mistake (which should not be) you tell me 😀
Who gives me the sources.list of this distribution, I am using Debian Stable because I had to reinstall since SolusOS 1.1 did not give me internet access. : |…
But if you pass the sources.list to me, I can upgrade to testing.
For what they left said on the SolusOS blog for that internet problem in version 1.1. You just have to disable the firewall for the internet to work.
regards
I love it now I use 1.1 on my old laptop and the performance surprises me, but I'm pro kde and I don't change chakra 😀 from my main pc ^ ___ ^
I am with 1.1 as the main distro and the truth is that it works very well. There were only a couple of things that I didn't like very much but it was fixed quickly 😉
It looks very good. But for me it was too late, I don't change Arch anymore. A year ago when I was orphaned from Ubuntu, I would have given it a chance.
I think elementary OS will be the "new queen linux distro" in a while.
I kind of end up trying it… what ties me to Ubuntu are the games and the software center. Not because I can install things (I use terminal) but because they sell the humble bundles and the games separately in the software center and I love that.
Where can I download the alpha version on the official page it only gives me the option to download 1.1 I have time trying to download some alpha from 2, I have been using version 1 for a long time and I have no fatal complaint that makes me change, its performance is the best I have experienced on my PC
In the download part. There is only the 32-bit version.
I just hope it's not the fashionable distro like LMDE or Chakra was at the time…. Users get bored, developers too and the worst thing is that it becomes a constant within GNU / Linux
No offense, but you are wrong through and through with Chakra. Neither users nor developers have gotten bored with it, only that there was a time when it was talked about more
So far I think that's what it is, however LinuxMint was the same in the beginning, like Chakra (this to a lesser extent), we will have to give time to see 😀
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1979
LMDE which is Debian allows to install Cinnamon
Although I am writing from Ubuntu with Unity, Sabayon is my favorite distro and also XFCE is my current favorite desktop for lightness, I hope it improves in compatibility with some other application.
LMDE will be able to install Cinnamon, but before with Debian Testing it could and cannot.
@daniel: you have it here: http://solusos.com/blog/2012/06/solusos-2-alpha-4-released/
elementary OS Luna for the masses.
That yes, but it cannot be denied that this distro is very well cared for.
hey well, I'm going to download it and try it
Nobody moves my chakra, well like silk, much less a distro deb xD will move me ...
O_O… not that you were pro-Windows to death? LOL!!
I am more pro osx than pro windows… ..
I don't like it very much, I'll stick with ubuntu and gnome 3 for now
I have SolusOs 2 installed and it works great for me while recognizing all my drivers. Congratulations to your developers, keep it up.
Fix: SolusOS 2 is based on wheezy, not testing.
Exactly and it seems to me, that so far, Wheezy is still current Testing Branch de Debian Or not? 😀
Still. But not in 6 months. When wheezy is stable, Solusos 2 will be as well.
ELAV <° LINUX I have a question ..
The kernel in SolusOS is being updated as a new version comes out or is it staying with 3.3.6?
I could not tell you.
Well, it does seem like a good distro. How its consumption is not so high I will try version 2 when it is stable 🙂
Am I the only one who doesn't like me? First, the installer only lets you use an HDD, which is horrible since I use the home on another HDD, and second, when I installed the NVIDIA driver I could never boot again, so I'll wait for me the second version, to see if they fix those problems.
ay no; A; (I'm derp and I didn't look at this comment) don't tell me that! I also mount the / home elsewhere ... too bad: /
I would love to use SolusOS ... but ... Gnome: U ... I didn't get anything about Gnome. The same as some other shell of the deviantArt but ... I don't know, something tells me that I'm not going to get used to it and I'm going to send it to the churro. I already found the mouse way with compiz and emerald.
Maybe they must have seen it on twitter yesterday before going into a 5 hour coma lol (aka, feel really bad) But LMDE gives me more headaches than advantages lately. Due to the fact that they get updates every time it rains, the machine is out of date with desire. I cannot be without Gimp 2.8 for example, because it is compatible with .ora files (those of MyPaint) and that is a lot of advantage for me that if I cannot do it in one, I do it in the other and I return to the first one. He sends me to hell every time I want to install add-ons to Rhythmbox or Clementine or something else and won't let me kick them open again.
Well, I could use Xubuntu and that's it, but I can't get it to work on my machine with 2 HDDs, one of 40 Gigs is destined for the root and swap, the other of 160 mounted as a slave for my files. Whatever you do, whether from Xubuntu I change the / home to the slave disk or directly from the installer, after restarting I get an error 1 or something like that from the bus and that the system is going to restart ... and it is a loop without the end because I get the kernel, it enters, and it throws the error, it restarts alone and it repeats. The same happened to me with Mint 12, so I guess it's something from Ubuntu that I don't even know how to find a solution.
Debian ... I tried the CUT version but I really didn't know what with the repos and it was very tedious for me to be installing everything else and seeing that some programs did not pull me because I was missing who knows that in synaptic and installing and installing is very tedious.
What dou you recommend? I only have this computer to consult an installation problem and it makes me desperate not to know what the hell happens to Xubuntu when I move the / home disk. LMDE I begin to consider it dead and Debian asks a lot of me and in my health condition I will not be breaking my head much to see what the young man is missing (they see me at this time for a medical examination that they will do tomorrow at a of my nieces and he should not sleep at all but no one in the house can stand because everyone works and you have to watch that he does not sleep, I eat I have a lot of free time tomorrow I go to sleep all day and that's it. I'm sick too but more than her, not u3u) And I don't want to fight with Solus for the environment (if the fallback lets me use compiz and dockbarX, what better)
(Like this drama I should have put it on the forum but come on, what happens there first ends here somehow)
Hello alba! In this post the author talks about version 2 and I see some images with compiz working. I hope it helps you. Cheers
http://ubuntu-cosillas.blogspot.com/2012/06/solusos-2-estilo-sobriedad-y.html