First, minimal test ISO is uploaded for the December stable ISO release.
After all the changes added to the previous ISO, this ISO is all about refining those. The distribution has been rebuild for over 70% of all the packages, including a new toolchain, move to Python 3.10, latest Glib2, Boost, ICU, Systemd, so a new ISO is really due.
Issue with ZFS on update of the new install has been fixed by adding a new module to Calamares, a hostid is now created & copied to the target install.
ZFS can now be used for all UEFI installs, do not expect it will be implemented anymore for BIOS systems.
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 5.101.0, KDE Applications 22.12, Plasma 5.26.4 and Linux 6.0.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-2022.11.27-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:
4984529c0045c56f75675f1e9f42c82556aa2ef0abd7a2dfbe256a25f3084dd2 KaOS-2022.11.27-x86_64.iso
On this ISO you will find:
Linux 6.0.10
systemd 252.2
gcc 12.2.0
Qt 5.15.7+
Frameworks 5.100.0
Plasma 5.26.3
KDE Applications 22.08.3
Calamares 3.3 Beta
Octopi 0.14.0 with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool
Known issues:
- The bottom progress-bar in Calamares reacts to mouse clicks & opens a virtualkeyboard (narrow)