14 DAY TRIAL // The Solus operating system has received a set of updates and developers made some important changes, like the adoption of a new Linux kernel of a new GTK+ version.
Solus is a distro built from scratch, and that gives its developers are a lot of freedom. When you're using another distro as the base, like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and so on, you might be constrained by those projects to use certain packages in order to keep things synchronized. When you're building from scratch, you're free to do pretty much anything you want, and that includes upgrading the Linux kernel just a day later after it was made available.
The rest of the changes made to Solus are not all that impressive, maybe with the exception of the update for the latest llvm. In any case, it looks like the makers of this OS are pretty much done with new features, and they've already outlined the direction of the project.
Solus is now using the latest kernel
We're not pretty used to the fact that the Solus devs like to implement the latest packages, especially the latest kernel, as soon as they are able to do so. This is something that doesn't usually happens with other distros, but Solus puts its trust in the Linux kernel project.
According to the changelog, the Linux kernel has been upgraded to version 4.1.3 (this just landed yesterday and it's the most advanced version available, also an LTS), glib2 has been upgraded to version 2.44.1, a number of llvm improvements have been made, clang has been used to build some packages, some menu problems have been fixed by pretending to be GNOME default now uses (joke from Ikey Doherty, project leader), and GTK+ 3.16.6.
You can download the Solus distro from Softpedia and give it a spin. It's not the stable version, but that's not too far away.