Download KaOS_Test

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

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, especially the move to 545 will need attention from those who have the hardware to test this driver.

Plan is to have Frameworks 5.111.0, KDE Applications 23.08.2, Plasma 5.27.9 and Linux 6.5.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-2023.11.03-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:

2dc051a010926e7e5a4022b2841ad6018d144bc41281a0e8dc00d6f4c92fc9cd  KaOS-2023.11.03-x86_64.iso

On this ISO you will find:
Linux 6.5.10
systemd 254.5
gcc 12.3.0
Qt 5.15.11+
Frameworks 5.111.0
Plasma 5.27.9
KDE Applications 23.08.2
Calamares 3.3 Beta
Octopi 0.15.0 with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool

Known issues:

  • The bottom progress-bar in Calamares reacts to mouse clicks & opens a virtualkeyboard (narrow)

A second minimal ISO is uploaded, main reason was that the previous minimal had the wrong ZFS modules included. For the rest not many changes or updates, nor any other issues found, so expect a first full ISO in 1 or 2 days.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2023.11.06-x86_64.iso

SHA256SUM:

9e04df4422c7687862a12f34223176c516fca9aa52c8cc8bac13bc6690d52ac4  KaOS-2023.11.06-x86_64.iso

There were way too many updates the last 2 days to release the Nov 8 ISO as next stable, one mor full test ISO is up.
Updates included the latest KDE patch updates to Qt5, Frameworks moved to 5.112.0, new linux-firmware, sudo, shared-mime-info, all the vulkan packages.
If all goes well, then this ISO will be released tomorrow as the next stable.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2023.11.12-x86_64.iso

31fad1ddc8077f3302c79127bcc16ff0fd8018150c835ca26467eccf772dc2b9  KaOS-2023.11.12-x86_64.iso