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Solus, an operating system with a rather colorful history as Solus OS, having been based on Debian at one point, is now released as a rolling distribution, most recently in the form of Solus 4.0 Fortitude. Solus 4.0 took a while to reach release due to changes in project management and various other matters. Solus 4.0 uses the latest software packages and updates in a timely fashion. The software that comes preinstalled is very sparse, meaning that users should go into Solus expecting to install other software. The package manager is a forked version of Pisi which is called Eopkg. Eopkg is not based on deb or rpm package managers so getting deb files to work might be a bit of a hassle, nevertheless, most software that newer users might find useful should be either within the standard Solus repository or the ever growing third-party repository. Snapd is also preinstalled and readily available for those who want software that isn’t in either of these. Solus 4.0 also uses one of the

We all know about the speed and efficiency of Linux, the security is unmatched as well. Linux is by far more secure than Windows and Mac as the Open Source community behind Linux is always eyeballing the code and subsequently fixing bugs thereafter. Linux and Unix are about as secure and as efficient as running a computer operating system gets, but there are some issues and bugs that don’t always get fixed or noticed in a timely fashion and one of the jobs of a System Administrator would be to check for these issues to make sure they’re not a problem in a business environment. SSH is a big gap in security that gets updated frequently, however, there is nothing that can be done to prevent it from being an inherent security risk as it is facing the internet and is a hole with which data travels through from device to device. Businesses and administrators use SSH to tunnel through from their devices to effect changes in files on other machines remotely and this, along with Telnet(wh