First, minimal test ISO is uploaded for the sixth anniversary ISO of KaOS

provide the installation log, if you encounter any issue at all

As always, early test ISOs are minimal, very few apps, just a web-browser, file manager, text editor, GUI package manager. The non-free nvidia drivers are included since they are a big part of what needs testing. Help is especially needed with testing non-free nvidia for the 418 series. So far no such new card is available in the usually used test systems.

This ISO will feature GCC 8.3.0, Glibc 2.29, Systemd 242, Qt 5.12.3, LLVM 7.1.0 among the many updates. No wallpaper set is a known bug, not clear yet why the new Midna theme fails to set the wallpaper, all other components of the new theme show correctly

KaOS ISOs are not only GTK free but are Qt4 & KDE 4 free too.
This is as pure a Qt 5/Plasma 5 ISO as possible.

Plan is to have Frameworks 5.57.0, KDE Applications 19.04.0, Plasma 5.15.4 and Linux 5.0.x on the final ISO. If all testing goes well expect the final ISO to be released within a week to ten days

Calamares version used is 3.2.5 Release Notes page is almost fully updated.

The ISO is using packages from the build repo, but that repo is not enabled, so if you decide to install, make sure to add the build epo to your pacman.conf.

To help with testing:

  • Use a GPT partition table on BIOS system (manual partitioning)
  • Use Isowriter to write the test ISO to your USB stick, plan is to remove imagewriter from the repos after this test cycle
  • Use in live mode on as much different hardware as possible
  • If you have an UEFI capable system, check if the ISO boots in both UEFI and legacy BIOS mode, make sure though to turn off secure boot
  • test installs on real hardware are needed, not just vbox
  • check as many partitioning options as possible in the partitioning of Calamares, see if all works and is clear enough
  • test with the BTRFS filesystem, it should now work properly without any intervention on UEFI systems (systemd-bootloader).

debug packages for Calamares are part of all ISOs, run Calamares with gdb if you encounter errors
provide the installation log, if you encounter any issue at all

You can start Calamares from the Welcome app, or run it with:

sudo calamares -d

The install log will be created in the home directory of the Live user, see ~/installation.log. It is available after the install in the target system in /var/log/installation.log
If run from cli, make sure to pastebin the full output, since no installation.log will be copied then, though that log is more complete.

The site for testing ISOs in use:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2019.04.19-x86_64.iso
sha256sum:

8ff6f4ff14cf71f1b75e4032c1702add96d36732c62ae4f645c4c5e8a8e9dcbf  KaOS-2019.04.19-x86_64.iso

On this ISO you will find:
Linux 5.0.8
systemd 242
gcc 8.3.0
Qt 5.12.3
Frameworks 5.57.0
Plasma 5.15.4
KDE Applications 19.04.0
Calamares 3.2.5
Octopi 0.9.0 with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool

Known issues:

  • Live mode will start with a black background, Midna wallpaper is not set. Adding it though is no issue.

The welcome app in the live mode still fails to apply the changes in Transifex.

Welcome app just pulls from Transifex, if translations in Transifex are done wrong, nothing can be done, just hoping the translators will fix their errors.

    demm As said, the translations are fine in Transifex, not in the app. They fail to get transfered/applied/whatever. I reported that around five times at least now. It is not working. I can send you a video. Main = Hauptmenü in Transifex, while its still Haupt in the app.

      First full ISO is uploaded. There is a good chance this will be the final ISO, lots of testing has already been done on this ISO.
      Fixed is the missing wallpaper, support is added for zstd compression in BTRFS filesystems, the kernel has moved to 5.0.9. About 70 other updated since the minimal ISO.
      Please help with testing the next day or so, that way this ISO can be released this weekend as the next stable, if no new issues are found.
      sha256sum:

      a921f7b5413fa51b2b3450df01adade2fa8574a34b085d1cd2213de49c332e93  KaOS-2019.04.25-x86_64.iso

      https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2019.04.25-x86_64.iso

      2 months later

      Hi there,

      no may or june iso ready yet ?
      I'm downloading the April one in order to install it to a friend tonite.

      Right. Just did an install and update from the April iso.
      Nothing to declare. Solid. Love it.