Hey everybody,
Great news that this forum was added ! It missed me a lot of time actually before it born.

I have a great question, and I am sooo sorry if that is not the time or anything else, but when will Solus 4 be released ?
It's nearly a full year that I wait for it and I am really excited, so do you have a release date more precise thant Q1 ? If not that is not a problem, just questionning.

Great new forum, love u so much

    aunetx Let me put it this way, there are no large blockers for the release of Solus 4. It's just a matter of updating our branding packages, writing the blog post, tagging Budgie 10.5, then releasing the images. I was just preoccupied this week with setting up this very community forum and making sure it works as well as it does.

    But as you may know, we aren't in the habit of giving ETAs 😉

      What about Solus 4 are you waiting for? Solus is a rolling release, so most of Solus is already up-to-date.

      This is my first rolling release. What should I expect happens, or that I need to do with my current 3.9999 Budgie when 4.0 comes out?

        papakanush
        Update your system as you normally would through the software center or if you prefer the command line. You don't need to do anything special to move to Solus 4, it just happens.

          Version numbers for rolling releases are mostly for installation purposes.

          11 days later

          Isn't Solus 4 supposed to be using Qt instead of GTK ?
          Is there any description of what direction the new Solus is going ?
          And what about KDE, is it going to be an official WM eventually (like in 4) ?

          I'm just curious of what future Solus will be, and the path it takes.

          Regards,
          BT

            PerfMonk
            What was reported as using QT was Budgie 11 which was never going to be in Solus 4 anyway. An they're going GTK with Budgie 11 now regardless.

            Plasma is not going to be released with Solus 4

            If we look at:

            eopkg info budgie-desktop
Name                : budgie-desktop, version: 10.5

            But 10.5 isn't actually an officially tagged release yet. There may be some stuff being held back from what will be the official 10.5 release of budgie in Solus 4, I don't know 🤷‍♂️

            Version numbers are just milestones so for example we know gnome 3.30.x that people wont shut up about is coming in Solus 4.1 as explained here https://getsol.us/2018/10/27/in-full-sail/

            I'm sure some are so eager for the latest and greatest of the gnome shit pile who will give Solus a try once 4.1 is out. They know what to keep an ear out for.

            Relevent to future of Solus:
            https://getsol.us/2019/01/14/2019-to-venture-ahead/
            https://getsol.us/solus/roadmap/

            But these are just goals not set in stone time frames, as always with Solus, its ready when its ready.

              Linux world has arrived to Kernel 5.0, Mesa 19.0, GNOME 3.32 - in my humble opinion, Solus 4 shouldn't be released without these very important new improvements.

                and i also hope with default hardware acceleration support in the browsers

                crom5 These are just numbers... There aren't more changes between the kernel 4.20 to 5.0 than there were for version 4.19 to 4.20. And regarding GNOME, it will be upgraded after Solus 4 (for Budgie 10.5.1 / Solus 4.1) as explained on the 2019: To Venture Ahead blog post.

                  I've said it so many times before : be patient. Solus 4 will come, Budgie 5 will come, Gnome 5 will come. It won't change the world. You will keep the same fantastic system as all the years before. And I know what I am talking about, I use Solus allready from day 1. It will all become in time.

                    Why would we even go from Budgie 10.5 to Budgie 11 to Budgie 5? 😄

                    I do not care about the numbers, whatever you name them. I only care about the impatience. That's all.

                      JoshStrobl, maybe we want confuse them, numbers out of sequence and all 🙂
                      I was thinking this morning about the numbers, and why it thrills me to see them roll. I came to a very strange conclusion, that I apparently like downloading large amounts of data and seeing change. This make absolutely no sense, but it's the conclusion that I came to. I mean, I prefer real upgrades that provide bug fixes and new features, but part of me just wants the data to roll.