Solus 1.0 RC1 Images Released for VMware and VirtualBox

Solus Project announced the first RC version of their upcoming OS release Solus 1.0 RC1: “The Solus project is happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of the Solus operating system. Budgie has been updated to improve stability and is a stability and maintenance update prior to the landing of the new Budgie rewrite and Raven (our notification center), landing in a future update. DoFlicky, the new driver management tool of Solus, is now available for testing as of this release candidate. DoFlicky will be accompanied by installable drivers for broadcom-sta, NVIDIA 304, 340xx, 352. With our driver management software landing, we will integrate 32-bit ‘multilib’ support after ensuring there are no further issues with DoFlicky. Due to the quality of the proprietary AMD drivers (fglrx), we will not be providing them at this moment in time. We will provide them as an update after RC1. Please note that whilst visualization solutions such as VirtualBox or Qemu can indeed be useful for preliminary testing of Solus, they will suffer greatly degraded performance in comparison to a hardware install. This is because Solus is optimized for real hardware usage, and doesn’t cut corners or accommodate for virtual scenarios.” You can checkout complete release announcement here.

We are providing you virtual images for latest version of Solus 1.0 RC1 for VirtualBox and VMware.

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