Download KaOS_Test
First, minimal test ISO is uploaded for the March stable ISO release. Plan is to release in about a week to ten days.

Calamares has some major visual and functional changes. All navigation is now in QML, window scaling is much improved. Debug button is now only visible on hover over the left bottom corner (regular users have no use for this feature). The finished page is now a QML module too (done by KaOS, accepted upstream). This gives a much simpler final page, two options, with side by side buttons to either close the installer or restart the system, option is also added to leave some log instructions.
Once the actual install starts, the navigation buttons are now hidden/inactive

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.

Plan is to have Frameworks 5.80.0, KDE Applications 20.12.3, Plasma 5.21.3 and Linux 5.11.x on the final ISO.

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 repo to your pacman.conf.

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.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2021.03.08-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:

b0c0f5c9d1a5e3630182d4edf7fd9d4775ded0644f341fdfc1d27077b8d09e1f  KaOS-2021.03.08-x86_64.iso

On this ISO you will find:
Linux 5.10.6
systemd 247.3
gcc 10.2.0
Qt 5.15.2
Frameworks 5.80.0
Plasma 5.21.2
KDE Applications 20.12.3
Calamares 3.2.37
Octopi 0.11.0 with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool

Known issues:
*None at this time

Second minimal ISO is up, main difference is a move to the 5.11 kernel series (5.11.5).
Updates to some base packages include bison, git, samba and gnutls.
Virtualbox now uses the in-kernel video driver, vboxvideo is now longer included in the guest modules package (needed change for linux 5.11).
Small visual change for the live mode, window decoration close button no longer highlighted, will be added to installed system with nex t ISO too.
No real bugs found in first ISO, so expect a full (final) ISO to be up in 2-3 days.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2021.03.11-x86_64.iso

2fb82193f308a4a0e172e50ffd87d1c80388705e97e8104298b269b1275260fc  KaOS-2021.03.11-x86_64.iso
6 days later

First full ISO is up. Lots of changes....
Biggest is the exclusion of the old 340xx non-free nvidia driver. It is not compatible with Linux 5.11, it does build but fails to boot with SDDM, bug reports for this are all over. Nvidia pretty much no longer supports this version (last release was from 2019, it needed to be heavily patched for all kernels since 5.6), so the time has come to stop shipping 340xx with KaOS.
Calamares received a lot of work the last week, biggest for KaOS was the usersq module. It now works, but the needed warning and error messages have been not been fully implemented in QML, so it is not default yet, but you can preview (edit /usr/share/calamares/settings.con and change the user entry to usersq).
For the rest, lots of packaging work, so many were updated, including Plasma 5.21.3 and Linux 5.11.7, systemd 247.4 & xfsprogs 5.11.0. Latter two will need the most testing.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2021.03.17-x86_64.iso

3c6bdc75795b2a282fb2a74db5653d6731ac39fd5a168ac8a69ae1707283b0c2  KaOS-2021.03.17-x86_64.iso

One issue happens for me live and installed: https://youtu.be/TjPsTNe1oo8
This one happened with build enabled: https://youtu.be/PQnmDBKAXNk

The second video shows, how almost the entire interface of the file opening dialog is unable to register clicks.

Small issues with applying the themes, including parts of it remaining of the previous one - even after closing and reopening the app.

3c6bdc75795b2a282fb2a74db5653d6731ac39fd5a168ac8a69ae1707283b0c2 sha256

https://pastebin.com/raw/hG4XF8GQ

I also found that virtualbox is not booting test ISO itself.
It hangs at a black screen and I also recorded that, in case you like to see it.
Also, as said, happening on a build enabled system with updates and reboot done.

  • demm replied to this.

    shalokshalom I also found that virtualbox is not booting test ISO itself.

    How to reproduce, since that is always the first thing tested before any ISO gets uploaded.

      It was my mistake, I did not wait long enough and it took a really long time, since this device seems not as capable as I am used from my own one 😀

      Could you reproduce the other two issues?