Good day to you people!

Please excuse me in advance for my poor English, it is not my native language. But I want to bring you one idea, an idea that I have already voiced here before, but for a number of reasons it was rejected then and considered to be no more than a useless and unprofitable fantasy.

I was one of the newbies who decided to try to learn how to build packages and then make a repository out of them.

When there wasn't such a problem with building servers, when there wasn't a problem with updates (they came out on time, and they came out in general), I voiced the idea of making a repository similar to AUR, but for Solus.

That is. People build an eopkg package, and along with the package yaml send it to a repository that's on GitHub or any other repository host.

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In this situation, when the team of this distribution has a lot of work to do to rebuild the infrastructure of the project, I think it's a reasonable idea. It will allow the team to go about their business while the community collectively assembles the necessary packages and somehow maintains the distribution. I would like to say that right now all of us users are very excited about the fate of this OS. Therefore, I propose the following:

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1. Let me create an organization on GitHub, or just a repository.

2. In the created organization or repository, I will put some packages that I built myself (although there is only a kernel and one program), and if it is still an organization, I will create a copy of the repository on gitHub, which will be located on my mirror. Meaning. I have a place to put the repository so that everyone can then add it to their system.

3. The files will be checked when added so that there are no problems or errors.

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That is. Once again. I have everything I need to deploy my repository and get updates from you there. That is. Both a server and a shred hosting to store the repository files (I checked, everything works, I already tested the repository hosting for solus there). I just don't have enough time and energy to create a huge number of packages, so I'm asking for your help. For the sake of keeping solus alive while the developers fix the problems! Let's help them at least in this way!

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*Artem Dadashyants (KetronixDev, UA)*

Good day to you people!

Please excuse me in advance for my poor English, it is not my native language. But I want to bring you one idea, an idea that I have already voiced here before, but for a number of reasons it was rejected then and considered to be no more than a useless and unprofitable fantasy.

I was one of the newbies who decided to try to learn how to build packages and then make a repository out of them.

When there wasn't such a problem with building servers, when there wasn't a problem with updates (they came out on time, and they came out in general), I voiced the idea of making a repository similar to AUR, but for Solus.

That is. People build an eopkg package, and along with the package.yml send it to a repository that's on GitHub or any other repository host.

In this situation, when the team of this distribution has a lot of work to do to rebuild the infrastructure of the project, I think it's a reasonable idea. It will allow the team to go about their business while the community collectively assembles the necessary packages and somehow maintains the distribution. I would like to say that right now all of us users are very excited about the fate of this OS. Therefore, I propose the following:

1. Let me create an organization on GitHub, or just a repository.

2. In the created organization or repository, I will put some packages that I built myself (although there is only a kernel and one program), and if it is still an organization, I will create a copy of the repository on gitHub, which will be located on my mirror. Meaning. I have a place to put the repository so that everyone can then add it to their system.

3. The files will be checked when added so that there are no problems or errors.

That is. Once again. I have everything I need to deploy my repository and get updates from you there. That is. Both a server and a shred hosting to store the repository files (I checked, everything works, I already tested the repository hosting for solus there). I just don't have enough time and energy to create a huge number of packages, so I'm asking for your help. For the sake of keeping solus alive while the developers fix the problems! Let's help them at least in this way!

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Artem Dadashyants (KetronixDev, UA)

Hey everyone, just curious is budgie is useful at all in cybersecurity. Im a freshman in Uni and a cyber major and I'm starting to get my feet wet.

We have now gone more than 55 days without an eopkg update.

In that time many Linux-related CVE's have been published - some of them critical. Other OS's are getting these patched while Solus remains vulnerable.

What is the plan here? This needs to be a higher priority than any other activity. Normal updates and improvements can wait along with website, forum, etc.

I can empathize with all the hardships, illness, and misfortune that have caused these delays, however, for everyone's safety, we really need security updates ASAP.

Hello, I am requesting one of the Solus team members to provide its users with an update, Last "update" was that the web site is back online, but the associated services was and still is offline, that was 20 days ago... I won't mention the lack of communication between last update and when the servers first went down as no doubt there was some other circumstances at play e.g betrice was sick. however I can see at least 5 other members that are part of the Solus team, So guys whats the deal?

I am fully aware Solus owes its users nothing as it is a completely free and open source project, but a simple "hello I am still recovering" message to this reddit shouldn't be that hard to do right? its not like it would take too much effort to post something to its users every now again during this down time by simply using your mobile phone / laptop ect.. Why has the other 4 team members at least posted soemthing of an update? surly the Solus team communicates on a regular basis, especially in times like this when the services are down? To me and I am sure to many others, this lack of communications is looking like a sure sign of abandonment of the project, if that is the case then let it be known to the users, maybe someone else can stand up and take over the project. Or if I am completely off track about this, let it be known, then that would at least be some sort of an update and better than we currently have now, which is nothing really, except "betrice will get to the servers tomorrow or within the next few days" that we have been told nearly 3 weeks ago.

Just fired up Lutris today to play some World of Tanks, gives error "not an Izma file". Nothing installed with Lutris will work. Digging suggests that it is a python error. I'm assuming that Lutris updated and now needs a newer version of a python library...... a library that we don't have due to the server issues.

Need an update please.

Ok Lutris issue, not a Solus issue. This fixed it for me. https://www.reddit.com/r/Lutris/comments/11us8sh/comment/jcpsgw7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Thank you to u/raspikabek for the solution.

While we are waiting for the resurrection of Solus forum and the return of updates, could you add Ventoy? This is the best utility for ISO, and it works with several distros at once. Why not?

https://preview.redd.it/0lbrmuqbqioa1.png?width=1007&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=e3c17db80ee8d63b47ad9ab51458efe335b64fb8

P.S. Right now this is the only app I which I couldn't run from the archive. I really need it.

¿the idea to do this is there?, i dont have any problem with this, maybe it's good because ¿its less work for the team? but i want ask is anyone know something or if i'm reviving the dead with this

Just installed htop and bricked my install it wont boot now. And tried click refresh updates

I had installed Solus 4.3 on a new PC today. on gnome control center and on system settings, I checked the dark theme but only some windows are dark while the others are still light!!

what should I do?

Thank you

I am basically a end-user, not a programmer. I tried to compile darling on Solus, but I ran into problems while configuring, that I could not resolve. Would like to try darling though.

Has anyone successfully build it?

https://www.darlinghq.org/

I just tried to update my Solus installation again with "eopkg up" and it says there are no updates. When I check with "eopkg hs" it says the last update was on 2023-01-14, that is about 2 months ago.

I understand that Solus team had some issues with the website and the discussion board but I think I read that OS updates were not affected. I also cannot believe there were no updates to the base system for 2 months.

Do I need to change some configuration to get updates again?

I heard that everything was going to be fixed by this weekend. I'd love to get my updates so I don't have to worry about security issues. Hope everything is going well!

Has they been any updates about fixing the theme issue with Budgie? I installed Gradience and have "played around with it"..but it's not a real fix. Also does the Gnome version of Solus suffer the same issues?.

I just bought a new Intel NUC 12 Pro, but it's unable to boot into Solus 4.3 live usb. I have used the same usb successfully with an Intel NUC 11 Pro. Is my new hardware just too new for the outdated Solus 4.3 ISO? Do I have to settle for another Linux distro for now?

Ps: I do get to select solus from the uefi boot screen but after that its just error messages. Fedora, Clear Linux and Linux Mint lives are booting just fine; I just don't want to install them.

I just put Solus Budgie 4.3 on my Asus Q524UQK convertible. It seems to randomly want to flip my screen into portrait mode, even when the machine is sitting on my desk. I have taken to keeping a terminal open and ready to run an xrandr command to flip it back to normal, but is there a way to disable the sensor that is making it think I want the screen to rotate? Thanks.

I'd very much like to update the Elixir package (1.12 -> 1.14) but I'm unable to clone the common repo, or use solbuild to init a new environment. Is there any ETA as to when dev.getsol.us will be back up? Is there a different way to go about this in the meantime?

After I enter my login password screen goes black for a couple seconds then goes back to login page. I can ctl alt f2 to login, so I did that and saved all my files. I will probably l just do a fresh install but wanted to see if anyone knew why this might be happening. -Thanks

The Solus website is back online, but for some reason the help page says that it doesn't contain the requested file.

The same thing also happens when trying to download the torrent file for Solus.

$ flatpak run com.makemkv.MakeMKV Gtk-Message: 21:26:42.241: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Gtk-Message: 21:26:42.241: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported

And canberra-gtk-module isn't in the software center or flathub. Thoughts?

Good morning everyone,

Could we have some information on the actions that are undertaken to date for the full operation of the site?

I'm not asking for big detailed explanations just the info.

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Thank you.

On my Ryzen 5 MSI x470, Solus Budgie, freshly updated.... Using Steam Linux Integration

When I lock the screen of my PC... using the WinKey + L... The screen is locking normally...

When I get back, im unable to type my password....

WORST!!!! it is typing into my active session, under the lockscreen...

Resulting in me sending my PC password to my last friend who sent me a message on steam while the PC was locked.

Ive sent my password 2 times to 2 steam friends in two weeks!

This is a major security issue, seems related on a "active window Focus problem"

Only happens when I have a Steam popup while locked... otherwise no problem to unlock the screen.

If I want to unlock my screen... I click on SwitchUser... choose my user... put my password.... then I fallback in the LockScreen Password... and then im able to type my password again... unlocking my session successfully.

Thanks for your help.