Ikey doherty wrote a blog post today on the development work going into budgie 11, the next major version of their desktop. Based in the uk, the solus project is the latest iteration of solusos. With enough funding, we could port serpent to other platforms, including macosmetal and windowsvulkan, thanks to our use of the fantastic bgfx graphics library. Ikey doherty was the lead developer of what originally was named evolve os and later morphed into solus os in 2015. Ive been using solus for about a month, and ive been quite pleased. In a field of linux distributions cluttered with lookalike offerings, solus brings something simple and something new.
Solus linux creator ikey doherty enters the game dev. Ikey shared with us that he left intel back in may to begin his new adventure. Written in the d programming language, serpent is an easy to use and crossplatform gaming framework that aims to help indie game developers create astonishing, retro video games that would work on linux. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 50 million developers. Application windows hiding under top budgie panel issue. Anyone have any ideas what could be causing the issue. Budgies design emphasizes simplicity, minimalism and elegance. The ikey interface is the basic representation of a key in cryptosystem. The solo nature of the project eventually became too. The budgie desktop, developed by ikey doherty, hit version 2 recently. Developed in collaboration with solus projects ikey doherty, the gamemode tool appears to be able to only set the cpu governor, but feral interactive plans to extend it with extra modeswitch. Id like to point out two examples regarding libreoffice that i havent seen in any of the other distros using plasma that ive tried. Ikey is what drawn many users to this exciting distro. Sign in sign up instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Recently upadated computer and github for windows will not launch anymore. According to this article ikey left intel to work on solus in 2017 if i understand this part correctly. Alternativeto is a free service that helps you find better alternatives to the products you love and hate. Ikey doherty, the founder and lead developer, on april 1 learned he was entangled in a naming dispute over the use of the designation os that then was part of his distros name. Budgie desktop brings chrome os style layout to linux.
A thank you to the solus team for a really clean implementation of the plasma desktop. Then he retired from his work on solus, and now nobody knows what he does. The hosts of this series, gardiner and raven, go over a wide array of linux topics distros, gaming, tech in a very casuallaidback conversation for each episode. Download all windows isos directly from microsoft with a trick allwindowsontechbench. Beginnerfriendly linux distro solusos shutting down. Alternatively, you can sponsor me directly on github to work on serpent and upstream where needed. The solus project is a rebranded and rereleased linux distro trying to regain its former popularity. Early in its development, doherty had to rebrand his original distro to resolve a conflict with another linux distribution. At the most fundamental level mutter does not expose support for panel positioning or strut reservation on wayland, nor arbitrary window placement for blessed windows, which is everything that matepanel would actually need to be useful.
There is another project develops by ikey evolveos, which. Looks like the linux steam integration project is being. The term key is used here in the abstract sense, not in the literal sense of cryptographic key material. Today, july 12, 2016, softpedia has been informed by solus project leader ikey doherty about the general availability of the budgie 10. These github open source applications terms and conditions application terms are a legal agreement between you either as an individual or on behalf of an entity and github, inc. Lispy snake is a uk software development firm that at least initially is working on a game engine and games. But he certainly did not contribute to anything on github in the last 6 months. In a field of evermore complex shells, its refreshing to see something as pared back and nimble in design as this, even if it is chromeesque.
Ikey doherty, the creator of solus linux, is now making games. Ikey doherty launches opensource focused gamesoftware. Im using git to submit chapters for my book and its a. Ikey doherty, the creator and former lead dev of solus, is back with a new project. While budgie desktop started off as being based upon gnome, now the developers are working to decouple from gnome and begin making use of the qt toolkit. The site is made by ola and markus in sweden, with a lot of help from our friends and colleagues in italy, finland, usa, colombia, philippines, france and contributors from all over the world.
Github open source applications terms and conditions. Ive switched a laptop and my pc to solus dualboot with windows for gaming, and so far ive had fewer problem than i had with e. Microsoft releases cumulative update for windows 10 may 2020 update rtm. Theyve also been misleading solus os userspatreon supporting into thinking ikey will return by craftily avoiding saying he has left for good as well as hardbanning users excessively and removing posts about ikey. They are working to degnome their desktop due to consistently hitting apiabi breakage and other changes. But according to ikey doherty lead developer of solus and budgie in this thread. Serpent is an opensource game framework focused on 2d.
Im using git to submit chapters for my book and its a pretty amazing piece of software. Given ikeys experience, the firm is focused on leveraging opensource technologies. It will also bring the four mods and yes that includes the experimental tiberian sun. The founder and developer of solusos is ikey doherty. Ikey doherty, the creator of solus linux, is now making.
Solus previously known as evolve os is an independently developed operating system for the x8664 architecture based on the linux kernel and a choice of the homegrown. More than 50 million people use github to discover, fork, and contribute to over 100 million projects. Ikey doherty launches opensource focused gamesoftware development company. This grants you lifetime access to all of our 2d games and helps fund development of our game titles and serpent. Informative and entertaining i really enjoy the presentation style of this podcast. Solus has impressive potential for being uncomplicated and different. The solus project is happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of the solus operating system we would like to thank all of our community members for. Sign up exploratory staging area for the next major budgie version. Thats right, all the lists of alternatives are crowdsourced, and thats what makes the data.
Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 50. Contribute to solusprojectbudgiedesktop development by creating an account on github. His new company, lispy snake, ltd, uses open source technology to create games, with a focus on linux support. Solus shines with plasma desktop options linuxinsider. Budgie desktop is distributed mainly as source code, via github, which means that you will be able to download and install it on virtually any linux kernelbased operating system, including ubuntu and arch linux. Developer ikey doherty announced this week that work on solusos, a debianbased distro aimed at beginning linux users, would come to a halt.
Well known opensource figure ikey doherty who rose to prominence for his. If youve been wondering what happened to exsolus leader ikey doherty, he has a new company called lispy snake that creates an opensource and crossplatform game framework called serpent. An open letter to solus from its founder ikey doherty. Solus project announces new tool for enabling better steam. We have a few different methods, for what its worth. Contribute to ikeydohertyapp concepts development by creating an account on github. Github for windows crashes at launch stack overflow.
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