Download KaOS_Test

First, minimal test ISO is uploaded for the September stable ISO release.

This ISO marks the move to KDE Gear 23.08, 23.08.0 is included.

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 5.109.0, KDE Applications 23.08.0, Plasma 5.27.7 and Linux 6.4.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-2023.08.27-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:

feb53e87b6b17564269d4ee7dab552eb709382f35a46b2ad43464d517871b595  KaOS-2023.08.27-x86_64.iso

On this ISO you will find:
Linux 6.4.12
systemd 253.8
gcc 12.3.0
Qt 5.15.10+
Frameworks 5.109.0
Plasma 5.27.7
KDE Applications 23.08.0
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)
14 days later

Second minimal ISO is up, there was some delay on trying to fix issues from the first minimal ISO, but this ISO boots fine again, after install, without all kinds of group & shadow file errors.
In the 2 weeks since the previous ISO, just about 1/3 of the repo's were updated all rebuild, so just mentioning a few. Kernel moved to 6..4.15, new 5.110.0 Frameworks, systemd 253.10, dbus 1.14.10, Calamares finally had a new release upstream, still called an alpha though........(been alpha for well over a year).
Coming Tuesday will have a new Plasma release, expect the first full ISO once that is up in the repo.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2023.09.10-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:

87856c2127c992c7e7c3e9932f21078faedc2095a4289d49ef9dc45a436e8746  KaOS-2023.09.10-x86_64.iso
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