Talk:Solus (operating system)

Notability
The notability template was removed with the explanation that SolusOS is "in top 20 of distrowatch| and that it has "over 3000 members". However, neither of those things show notability on Wikipedia.  A page hit ranking on DistroWatch is not indicative of notability.  As the page in question explains, page hit rankings "...simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch.com was accessed each day, nothing more."  That doesn't translate to notability on Wikipedia.  The number of "members" also does not contribute to the notability of the subject.  "Members" also seems ill-defined, considering operating systems do not have members.  Software has certain notability criteria that should be met, and this article does not appear to meet any of the criteria. The notability tag belongs on the article to inform readers that the topic has issues, so that (1) they are aware of them and (2) if they have sources that would improve the article and establish notability, the tag lets them know that the article needs those sources, because as it stands the article seems unlikely to remain on Wikipedia if the sources are not improved. - SudoGhost 17:16, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

restart of solusOS
Hi, as introduction and in the history it is said that solusOS was abandoned in 2013. It seems that it restarted (see https://solus-project.com/blog/ ) The history should be updated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Icefinger (talk • contribs) 12:52, 20 July 2015 (UTC)


 * No. This is not the same project. See below. --Elmeter (talk) 16:09, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

The (new) Solus Project is not to be confused with the (old) SolusOS
This article refers to the old SolusOS http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=SolusOS but there is a new project, formerly called EvolveOS, which has changed its name to Solus http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=solus

When/if the new Solus Linux has an article on wikipedia,

{distinguish} will need to be used on this page.

--Elmeter (talk) 16:09, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Budgie
What's about Budgie? --84.153.173.74 (talk) 20:31, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
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 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20130226013824/http://solusos.com:80/blog/tue-02192013-1258/solusos-13-released to http://solusos.com/blog/tue-02192013-1258/solusos-13-released
 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20120816053444/http://solusos.com:80/blog/2012/05/solusos-eveline-32-bit-released/ to http://solusos.com/blog/2012/05/solusos-eveline-32-bit-released/
 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20120827165515/http://solusos.com:80/blog/2012/06/solusos-1-1-released/ to http://solusos.com/blog/2012/06/solusos-1-1-released/
 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20151104020417/http://solusos.com/blog/2012/08/solusos-1-2-released/ to http://solusos.com/blog/2012/08/solusos-1-2-released/
 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20130420120458/http://solusos.com:80/blog/thu-03142013-2024/standing-solusos-two-legs to http://www.solusos.com/blog/thu-03142013-2024/standing-solusos-two-legs
 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20120831201750/http://solusos.com:80/blog/2012/05/solusos-2-bringing-back-gnome/ to http://solusos.com/blog/2012/05/solusos-2-bringing-back-gnome/
 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20121029133026/http://solusos.com:80/blog/2012/09/a-word-from-the-boss/ to http://solusos.com/blog/2012/09/a-word-from-the-boss/

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External links modified
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 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://solusos.com/about/
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://distrowatch.com

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Better Article
Just wanted to say that this is a well-written and nicely brief article, in my opinion. I'm the person who wrote up the old Solus_Operating_System article, for the most part, and am unaffiliated with the project in any formal way... So I'm just putting in my two cents to say this article to me, is fine. I'm not sure why an existing and popular distribution of Linux (or Operating System, however you want to classify it), keeps getting "nominated for deletion". Good luck. 24.2.173.227 (talk) 13:13, 6 June 2016 (UTC) Chris

I think this Wikipedia article sounds it has been written by marketing people. Standard features like security updates and point releases that other Linux distributions have had for years are presented as novel features. There is also nothing special about "curated software packages", every other serious Linux distribution like Fedora, Debian and openSUSE has these QA processes as well. This article should be rewritten in a more neutral and less marketing speak. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:88:6958:4100:3323:5D2:ABA1:4018 (talk) 10:25, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Logo license usage
Please note the Solus logo is not CC-BY-SA-4.0, as indicated on this article. It is the exclusive copyright of Solus Project (All rights reserved), represented by myself, Ikey Doherty, as the legal entity. Thus use of the logo is in line with fair use as long as the incorrect licensing information is removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.198.151.43 (talk) 09:25, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion: You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 13:36, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The logo for Solus.png

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion: Participate in the deletion discussion at the. —Community Tech bot (talk) 15:51, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Solus 4, with the Budgie desktop, with the default Plata GTK Theme.png

Add mentions of the origins? SolusOS (Debian based) and later Evolve OS (independent)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

Tuxayo (talk) 17:07, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

the "Google Chrome" distribution issue
Google Chrome is proprietary, non-FOSS, etc. and is not included in many distros e.g. Ubuntu and others, Chromium (web browser) is similar and FOSS. This is like the Adobe Flash Player and Java Runtime Environment for Linux distribution issues. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 15:50, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Is Solus a continuation of SolusOS, or not?
If not, SolusOS shouldn't redirect to Solus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Godbleak (talk • contribs) 03:41, 23 February 2022 (UTC)