Hey folks,

It's a Friday somewhere and guess what, we have updates for you.

@ReillyBrogan and I have been working on a CDN-backed binary package repository that should be able provide higher speeds (assuming cache hits) to servers closer to you. It is in its early days (well, more like hours 😃) but we would love to see you start using it, generating traffic, and even getting package updates.

That's right, package updates. You can expect some smaller updates, such as linux-current and linux-lts, brave, openssh, openvpn, sudo, docker stack, vivaldi, signal, firefox, thunderbird, and more. Sorry, did I say small?

To be clear, you will not need to manually switch to this in the future. We are working with RIT to start syncing our repo to their mirror so there will be no work on your part if you don't feel like jumping onto the CDN train right now. But if you're excited for updates, run one of the commands below.

  • Check what repo you are using: eopkg lr
  • If you see shannon, run: sudo eopkg ar Solus https://cdn.getsol.us/repo/shannon/eopkg-index.xml.xz
  • If you see unstable, run: sudo eopkg ar Solus https://cdn.getsol.us/repo/unstable/eopkg-index.xml.xz
  • Upgrade! sudo eopkg upgrade

Edited (thanks @TraceyC):

    After you run the appropriate command, run this to update your system:

    sudo eopkg upgrade

    Or open the Software Center and upgrade from there.

      JoshStrobl

      Fantastic! I've changed to my other laptop, the one that was still running Solus Plasma, and I feel at home now. There are two other machines that I'll switch back to Solus after dinner, but those will take a bit more of an effort than this one did. This one took an update -- those others need an installation and a lot of configuration. But it will be worth it.

          After running -- sudo eopkg ar Solus https://cdn.getsol.us/repo/shannon/eopkg-index.xml.xz

          Then run-- sudo eopkg up

          Result for 50 pkgs in less than 2 minutes

          [✓] Syncing filesystems success
          [✓] Updating dynamic library cache success
          [✓] Updating clr-boot-manager success
          [✓] Running depmod on kernel 6.1.24-230.current success
          [✓] Updating graphical driver configuration success
          [✓] Updating system users success
          [✓] Updating systemd tmpfiles success
          [✓] Compiling glib-schemas success
          [✓] Updating mimetype database success
          [✓] Updating icon theme cache: hicolor success
          [✓] Updating desktop database success
          [✓] Updating GTK3 input module cache success
          [✓] Updating manpages database success
          [✓] Updating SSL certificates success
          [✓] Reloading udev rules success
          [✓] Applying udev rules success
          craig@rock ~ $

          Thank you @JoshStrobl and @ReillyBrogan

          Superb, huge work, congratulations to all of you for this update.

          Are we happy? (Looks around).

          Well I dunno about y'all, but around here, we happy.

          You folks really know how to deliver on your promises and simultaneously exceed expectations.

          worked okay for me . I am on the unstable branch at the moment . I have several programs besides the basic ones such as brave, blender, gimp etc and had 78 updates. took about two minutes , rebooted, and system is working fine so far. Thanks to the development team ..

          nolan Yeah. clr-boot-manager failed. I ran out of space over EFI directory. I've removed old entries and files. I left two kernels as option in order to boot. Then I entered clr-boot-manager update and returned this: [ERROR] cbm (../src/bootman/update.c:L238): Could not find default kernel for type current, using highest relno . It seems to be an old issue if you read some older posts about current and lts kernels.

          PostData: Thanks to the team for trying to keep alive something really valuable, you're doing great.

            Just updated my laptop (and old crap...), had almost a GB to update : worked well.

            Unsure about the speed but my machine has a wireless interface limitation because of its age. I am confident to try the same on my workstation.
            And I will clone my main drive to experience with the unstable repos as well, the exchange on Matrix are stimulating and motivating.

            We are a Day + 4 after the "New Voyage Blog Post" and we are already able to update some packages.

            I'm so thankful !
            You guys and gals are mindblowing ! Really impressive 🤯

            All went smooth ! Thank you very much; Solus is back on the block ! Yay !

            Thank you!!! It was so great getting new packages this morning.

            CDN has been chugging away just fine. 200+GB transferred, 30k requests to various indexes and packages. 82% cache hits.