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A bit delayed, but the first June test ISO is finally up. Major changes, too many to mention all here, but biggest one is ofc the new Toolchain. The complete new API in util-linux 2.39 was one of the reasons for the delay, it took abit of time to adjust ISO creation to the new requirements of mount (part of util-linux).
Music option has been removed again from the installer, so don't go looking for that.

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 5.107.0, KDE Applications 23.04.2, Plasma 5.27.5 and Linux 6.3.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-2023.06.19-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:

1984266deebe4237fc9163bc495615029dccdfe7368689286c6da531cbb77e33  KaOS-2023.06.19-x86_64.iso

On this ISO you will find:
Linux 6.2.16
systemd 253.5
gcc 12.3.0
Qt 5.15.10+
Frameworks 5.107.0
Plasma 5.27.5
KDE Applications 23.04.2
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)
6 days later

Second minimal ISO is up.
Plasma moved to 5.27.6, kernel now uses the 6.3 series, 6.3.9 is on this ISO.
SDDM finally had a release after 3 years, and now as experimental support to run in Wayland mode, this option is enabled for this ISO (might not be on for final ISO).
There is an issue reported for Nvidia 535, as in, complete not booting. This ISO included 535 one more time, if no other reports or testers, and still fails, then next ISO will have to go back to using Nvidia 530.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2023.06.25-x86_64.iso
SHA256SUM:

f6a3c647e754a0a16716311e06a0fc85722d79b07c30011b154a250554e91ebb  KaOS-2023.06.25-x86_64.iso
6 days later

A major issue was found for the Nvidia 530 non-free driver, resulting in a non-booting (or installable) system, thus no other option but to quickly release a corrected ISO. New ISO is up in the usual test location, should be possible to release as the stable ISO, replacing the June ISO from last week.

New ISO also includes KDE Apps 23.04.3, new kernel 6.3.12 (this adds a major CVE fix) among the many updates from a little over a week.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2023.07.07-x86_64.iso
SHA256SUM:

8e1abdc5267aceaf4506756346e20f643cc50f0c7635cae7cc6adfb6929cd2a5  KaOS-2023.07.07-x86_64.iso