Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Solus 4 Linux OS to Bring Back Wayland Support, MATE Edition Will Get Some Love

The developers of the independently-developed Solus operating system announced today the roadmap for the next major release, Solus 4, which appears to introduce several new features.

First off, it looks like the Solus devs plan to re-implement support for the next-generation Wayland display server in their GNU/Linux distribution, though the ISO images will come with the 2D X.Org graphics driver enabled by default and use open source drivers for Nvidia GPUs as they want to further improve Nvidia Optimus.

"We're working to improve the NVIDIA situation and investigating a switch to libglvnd, enabling of wayland-egl/eglstreams, etc.," reads today's announcement. "We've moved back to open drivers to allow Ikey to further research NVIDIA Optimus. [...] We have no timeline on this but we're actively looking into it!"

Solus MATE Edition to get a major update

While the main Solus edition will still be... (read more)

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