Mastodawn

So, #Debian has a bit of a reputation on flimsy hardware support. You couldn't even install D12 on a Z8xxx series CPU without fiddling with it unless you wanted to end up with an unbootable system.

I happen to have next to me another "special" system, a Chromebox with an 8th-gen Intel CPU. Which have a notoriously heinous sound subsystem (there's a paid driver for Windows).

I've dropped #CachyOS, #Ubuntu, #Fedora, #ElementaryOS, #ZorinOS, #MXLinux, #Bazzite, #AlpineLinux, #SolusLinux, #VanillaOS, and a few more on this system.

NONE of them was able to correctly configure audio on this machine. Some would not even detect an audio sink, others would have an "Analog Audio" sink, but no HDMI. Others would have a "Dummy Output". Fedora even listed my network-connected AV Receiver as an audio sink (!), but not HDMI.

And then there's Debian 13... Which correctly outputs over HDMI **OUT OF THE BOX**...

WAT

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flo Feb 21

@lerothas
Gefällt mir :)

#GetSolus #SolusLinux #Linux

fosstopia 🇩🇪Dec 3

Solus 4.8 „Opportunity“ bringt frischen Schwung für alle Editionen https://fosstopia.de/solus-4-8/ #Budgie #BudgieDesktop #Solus #Solus4.8 #SolusLinux

Linux Easy Oct 12

Solus entra in una nuova epoca! Arriva Polaris, il nuovo repository stabile, con aggiornamenti a systemd, rimozione di Python 2 e GNOME 49. Scopri cosa significa per il tuo sistema Linux. #SolusLinux #Polaris #EpochBump #LinuxNews

https://www.linuxeasy.org/solus-nuova-epoca-repository-polaris-linux/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Solus inaugura una nuova epoca: nasce il repository Polaris

Solus avvia una nuova epoca con il repository Polaris, rimuove Python 2 e aggiorna systemd. Ecco come affrontare la transizione.

Linux Easy

Eric Maugendre about data Apr 19, 2025

"Solus is an unusually stable, unusually simple to use rolling release distribution. Everything is pretty straight forward, everything works (at the lower levels), everything installed and updated smoothly."
(But choose your desktop!)

a review of @Solus 4.7 and #Budgie 10.9 by @distrowatch: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250310#solus

Solus origin: #Ireland
website location: California

#decoupling #nonAligned #alternatives #EuropeAlternatives #nonUS #distros #LinuxDistributions #desktop #FOSS #FLOSS #Linux #Solus #SolusDistribution #SolusLinux #Budgie #BudgieDesktop #rollingDistributions #rollingRelease

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MOVED to: @[email protected]Apr 4, 2025

I could have sworn Solus Linux supported Secure Boot. Sadly, I get this error when trying to boot the USB. I can press "OK" and it brings me right back to my PCs UEFI menu. 😢

#Uefi #SecureBoot #Linux #Solus #SolusLinux

R.L. Dane

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Mar 5, 2025

Whoa, Hybrid Sleep saved me from a power outage on my ThinkCentre M910q.

I came home to blinking clocks on my oven and microwave, and expected to see some journal replay stuff when I booted my little desktop, but it just jumped right back to the lock screen.

So nice! I don't recall ever having hibernate working properly on linux, before.

#Solus #linux #SolusLinux

R.L. Dane

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Feb 25, 2025

Just remembering something before I shuffle off to bed...

I'd like to write a "vrms" / "check-dfsg-status" - style script for #eopkg.

The idea is that it looks through your package repo and warns you if any packages are proprietary. It's quite easy to do on Debian, as it relies on whether or not any packages are from the Contrib or Non-Free repos. I wrote one for flatpak that looks at the license of each installed package, and searches for stuff like (GPL|MIT|BSD|etc...).

I also wrote one for #arch years and years ago, but found it was a futile effort, as hundreds of packages in the base install just had "custom" in the license field.

So far, it's looking quite promising:

$ eopkg info $(eopkg -N li |cut -f1 -d" ") |grep ^Licenses |cut -f2- -d: |tr , "\n" |sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//; s/[[:space:]]*$//' |grep -v "^$" |uniqsort
      2 Artistic-Perl-2.0
      2 Bitstream-Vera
      2 BSD-3-Clause-Attribution
      2 BSD-4-Clause
      2 CC-BY-4.0
      2 CC-BY-SA-3.0
      2 CC-PDDC
      2 CDDL-1.0
      2 Copyright
      2 CPL-1.0
      2 EPL-1.0
      2 EUPL-1.2
      2 GFDL-1.2
      2 GFDL-1.3
      2 GFDL-1.3-only
      2 gnuplot
      2 GPL-1.0-only
      2 GPL-1.0-or-later
      2 GPL-2.0-later
      2 GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
      2 GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note
      2 JasPer-2.0
      2 LGPL-2.0
      2 LGPL-2.0-or-later WITH WxWindows-exception-3.1
      2 LGPL-3.0
      2 MPL-2.0-or-later
      2 PDDL-1.0
      2 PostgreSQL
      2 Rdisc
      2 Unlicense
      2 X11
      4 AGPL-3.0-only
      4 AOMPL-1.0
      4 BSD
      4 bzip2-1.0.6
      4 GFDL-1.1-or-later
      4 IJG
      4 Info-ZIP
      4 Libpng
      4 libtiff
      4 OLDAP-2.8
      4 Public-Domain
      4 WTFPL
      6 AGPL-3.0-or-later
      6 Artistic-2.0
      6 BSD-4-Clause-UC
      6 CC-BY-3.0
      6 EULA
      6 OpenSSL
      6 TCL
      8 GFDL-1.2-only
      8 HPND
      8 LGPL-2.1
      8 Python-2.0
      8 SGI-B-1.0
     10 0BSD
     10 BSL-1.0
     10 Distributable
     10 OFL-1.1
     12 CC-BY-SA-4.0
     12 GFDL-1.2-or-later
     14 GPL-3.0
     16 MPL-1.1
     18 GPL-2.0
     20 Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
     20 Zlib
     22 LGPL-3.0-only
     32 CC0-1.0
     32 ISC
     36 GPL-3.0-only
     38 Artistic-1.0-Perl
     56 GFDL-1.3-or-later
     56 MPL-2.0
     94 Apache-2.0
    110 LGPL-2.0-only
    112 BSD-2-Clause
    122 LGPL-3.0-or-later
    126 LGPL-2.1-only
    136 GPL-2.0-only
    214 LGPL-2.0-or-later
    232 GPL-3.0-or-later
    278 BSD-3-Clause
    416 LGPL-2.1-or-later
    442 MIT
    548 GPL-2.0-or-later

Happy to report that I've added support for #SolusLinux' #eopkg to all of my little package utilities: https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/commit/73d34d376cabf5d209f85ca8eafaef92395cb5e0

cc @solusspider

#Solus

pkgbins, pkgsizes, searchall, system_updates_checker, updateall: add support for Solus linux eopkg · 73d34d376c

updateall: also fixed a bug with finding the "su" utility

Codeberg.org

R.L. Dane

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Feb 25, 2025

Ok, this is crazy weird...

I deleted my ~/.config/syncthing folder and started syncthing again to re-set it up from scratch, and everything was back! My config, my folders, everything!!

I looked in ~/.config/, and no syncthing!

I did a find, and the config folder is in ~/.local/state/syncthing!!

Has anyone heard of ~/.local/state/? Is that a #Solus thing?
I'd never encountered it before.

Phew!!

#SolusLinux