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

Mainly lots of updates since the April ISO, including the usually troublesome Systemd updates (for ISO's anyway). Seems this time no adjustments needed for Systemd 248.

Lots of works has again been done to move more Calamares modules to QML. The Locale module is now in QML for both online (as has been a while) and offline installs:

Packagechooser in all new QML:

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 5.83.0, KDE Applications 21.04.2, Plasma 5.22.x and Linux 5.12.xx 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-2021.06.14-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:

d8b3d2cb2275e702270a7b4855d3bdac5e576b94e2fd5c6493cc6e282fe59882  KaOS-2021.06.14-x86_64.iso

On this ISO you will find:
Linux 5.11.16
systemd 248.3
gcc 10.3.0
Qt 5.15.2+
Frameworks 5.83.0
Plasma 5.22.0
KDE Applications 21.04.2
Calamares 3.2.40
Octopi 0.11.0 with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool

Known issues:

  • none at this time
7 days later

First full ISO is available, good chance this will be the final ISO.
Lots has been updated the last week, among what is new, Plasma 5.2.22.1, Linux 5.12.13, Mesa 21.1.3, Networkmanager 1.32.0, Vulkan packages 1.2.182

SHA256sum:

419fd2d465b4cacf8a0dd8ca1096069a2c9d0e3e325e1237b257b9cbb84468c5 KaOS-2021.06.23-x86_64.iso
5 days later

There was not enough time to properly test the full ISO from 5 days ago. That is too long for a final, so a new full ISO is uploaded. Calamares received more translations, 5 locales are fully done now. About a dozen other packages updated. So far no real issues found, neither with the June 23 or 28 version.

SHA256sum:

cbc5427b14a12ed733113918e5f9f3c18d015f3a68afa4da41b6eea39f2b7795  KaOS-2021.06.28-x86_64.iso