Solus 4.2 Budgie VM Images Available for VirtualBox and VMware

Solus project announced the update to stable version of Solus 4.2 features up-to-date snapshot of Budgie desktop environment. Solus is an independent Linux distribution which uses the eopkg package manager (a fork of the PiSi package manager): “We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Solus 4.2, a new Solus 4 “Fortitude” series release. This release delivers new desktop environment updates, software stacks, and hardware enablement. All of our editions feature: Firefox 85.0, LibreOffice 7.0.4.2, Thunderbird 78.6.1. For audio and video multimedia playback, we offer software out-of-the-box that caters specifically to our desired experience for each edition. Budgie, GNOME, and MATE editions all ship with Rhythmbox for audio playback, with the latest release of the Alternate Toolbar extension to provide a more modern user experience. Budgie and GNOME ship with GNOME MPV for video playback. MATE ships with VLC for video playback. Plasma ships with Elisa for audio playback and SMPlayer for video playback. Mesa has been upgraded to 20.3.3. This introduces support for new GPUs, Vulkan 1.2 API support, numerous fixes for the latest gaming titles, and ACO shader compilation is now enabled by default for the RADV Vulkan driver…” You can read complete release announcement here.

We are providing you virtual images for latest version of Solus 4.2 for VirtualBox and VMware.

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