GNOME Of Thrones | The Roundup #12

JoshStrobl

We're thrilled to announce the availability of the latest GNOME 3.32 Stack in the Solus unstable repo, now available to brave testers! Read more about it at https://getsol.us/2019/04/25/gnome-of-thrones/

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JoshStrobl Some extensions do not work properly in the UNstable version (for example Texttool).

dbarron

I guess I'll have to wait till May 3rd, when it hits stable 😉 But thanks for continuing the grueling work shown on the hackfest a week or two back (hours of configuration/compiling).

Harvey

Congrats!

dbarron
There was much more later on Twitch, like 35~ hours.

yursan9

dbarron Don't be a chicken! Hop on to unstable! Nothing will go wrong! Promise... 🤣

Soopyyy

yursan9 I just jumped over, seems OK so far!

yursan9

Soopyyy Is this your first time on Unstable? Make sure you are joining #Solus-Dev channel on irc to stay informed.

Just don't update without being informed. Some update will broke something spectacularly, like kernel and stack update.

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Soopyyy

Hey Soopyy. How can I, as a NON-technician, jump over. Please your advice.
gr. Evert.

Soopyyy

yursan9 I tried to join the solus IRC a few days ago and I had trouble logging in and it seems to have auto-banned me now?
Edit: never mind, looks to have been just the client I was using.

JoshStrobl

Yep, what @yursan9 said. Unstable is not for the faint of heart, and if you update when we clearly say not to, the chances of you getting support is slim to none. The expectation is that individuals which opt to use unstable are always checking for any message to indicate that they shouldn't update in the #Solus-Dev IRC channel. It is standard practice for us to update the topic when that is the case.

All of that being said, welcome to the unstable club. Thanks for jumping on to help test!

dbarron

Years ago, I would have been in the unstable camp. Now I like my system to run (mostly by itself).

JoshStrobl

dbarron I also prefer systems that run instead of fall on their face after upgrades too 😛

Junglist

evert To add the unstable repository:
sudo eopkg ar Solus https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/unstable/eopkg-index.xml.xz

After that: sudo eopkg up - to install the updates

sudo eopkg rr Solus https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/unstable/eopkg-index.xml.xz - to switch back to the stable repository.

Scotty-Trees

You should release it on May the 4th :-P

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Junglist Hey Junglist : Thanks.

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Junglist
Hey Junglist. I have just installed it : it works perfectly. Thanks.

yursan9

Soopyyy You can't use web client. To access #Solus-Dev channel, you slso need to register your nickname

Soopyyy

yursan9 Yeah I am trying to do that at the moment with mixed success.

one_good_eye

It is great to know that the future of Gnome is getting better. It has a reputation of being resource hungry. It is great that the resource reduction is also affecting Budgie, it does well on resources already. Nice to hear KDE is coming along as well. Thanks for the hard work put into making Solus, I have been using it for over a year.

papakanush

I don't know if it's a fair comparison, but with nothing else but htop running, the unstable version running on virtualbox is only using 540 GB RAM compared to my Solus Gnome daily driver has 960 GB RAM (which is still pretty good compared to fedora or debian gnome, both of which were well over 1300 to 1500 GB with just htop running). I do have a couple of eye candy extensions added to my bare metal install, so that may make some difference.

Not an extensive check of everything yet, but all appears to running quick and smoothly 😃

JoshStrobl

papakanush

the unstable version running on virtualbox is only using 540 GB RAM compared to my Solus Gnome daily driver has 960 GB RAM

I'm just a tad concerned though about you using 960GB of RAM. How many Electron apps is that?

(One.)