The Solus project is powering on, and they released a new daily built for their system, fixing many of the issues that affected the first version, including a nasty EFI bug.

The Solus operating system is getting closer to a stable release, and the daily builds are an important part of the development cycle. Not all operating systems can pull this off and we usually just get a few intermediary versions, like Beta or RC, and followed by the final version. Things are a little bit different with daily builds because we can always get the latest version of the OS, even if it's under construction.

In fact, a daily build is pretty much like a rolling release. Everything is implemented on the fly, including new features and bug fixes. It's not a good idea to have this installed on a production machine as one update can really mess up your system. Luckily, users won't have to wait too long until we get to play and use the stable version of this operating system.

Solus OS is not messing around with old packages

The one thing that's immediately clear is that Solus is not a project that will ship with old packages. A lot of developers prefer older versions because they have been proven to be stable, but it's a double edge sword. Having old packages also means that you don't get new features. The same is true for the Linux kernel, which is the backbone of the OS. Fortunately, it looks like Solus is living on the bleeding edge when it comes to the Linux kernel.

The developers have explained that the UEFI dual-boot issues have been fixed, a problem with the network hostname change has been corrected, the firmware package has been updated in order to provide support for more devices (Intel WiFi, Radeon GPU, Tegra GPU), the Linux kernel 4.1.1 has been implemented, and a new theme has been adopted, temporarily, called Arc GTK.

You can download the Solus daily build from Softpedia and give it a spin. Also, please keep in mind that Unetbootin is not supported.