Test cycle 2024.01 ISO

chief

kde-next and build don't always sync. I haven't experienced any issues that I know of because of it, but it makes me wonder how soon I might crash because of it 🙂)))). It's Beta so I chalk it up to the two still being worked on. Still running the 12/30 iso with no issues other than that. Periodic sudo pacman -Syu's have it up to date, so no need for me to use this iso.

mparillo

In the Calamares UI, it looks as if Libre Office is installed by default, but it is not (I assume because it is not on the ISO, correct?).

 mparillo  ~  pacman -Qi libreoffice
error: package 'libreoffice' was not found
 mparillo  ~  sudo grep LibreOffice /var/log/installation.log                                                                                                             
LibreOffice selected
 mparillo  ~  pacman -Q | grep -i office
 mparillo  ~

Full Installation Log

demm

See the first post, this is a MINIMAL first test ISO, full (stable) ISO has Libreoffice.

demm

First full ISO is up.
Quite a few fixes & adjustment in packaging Plasma 6 are included, as are some major updates (polkit, pam had some big changes for example
Kernel moved to 6.6.13.
ISO includes LibreOffice Qt6/kf6 based, this is an RC for the 24.2 upcoming release.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2024.01.21-x86_64.iso
SHA256SUM:

a6dcc6fbe8995c8a84ff2af8a957014adbefb4f288cd2f0cb39a886c1db3c929  KaOS-2024.01.21-x86_64.iso

chief

demm I am using it without issues. I, however did not add build and kde-next. Should I do that?

demm

Again see the first post, when in use add the build repo.
kde-next is closed https://forum.kaosx.us/d/2999-start-of-plasma-frameworks-qt6-based/58

down8ve

Clean install of 01.21, the Nvidia live option is not usable on my Intel/Nvidia 950 system, but that's been the case this cycle. No surprise. Rather go with nouveau with Wayland at this point anyway. If I add the Nvidia drivers post-install I cannot use Wayland.

Added the [build] repo, updated.

Noticed it takes 15 seconds for the panel to appear after login. Croeso comes up right away, however. Pop-up details when hovering above items in the panel are much better with no weird artifacts on the screen. this was an annoyance on the normal releases before, likely just an Nvidia/X11 driver problem. Works well on Wayland.

LibreOffice and Firefox are looking good, launches faster than before. So far, so good. Excited to see the final product.

demm

Please post a bit more detail about your Nvidia hardware, it might be (if it is an older card) you will also need to add nomdeset to the kernel command line. If more face this (as I do with an ancient card needing the 390xx driver), then it needs to be added to the boot options for 390xx hardware.

The 15 seconds delay started with the Megarelease RC1, so it is planned now to wait for the final ISO and use RC2, coming out by the end of this month.

down8ve

Damn, forgot about the nomodeset option at boot, sorry. The card is a Gigabyte 950, which is about 7? years old. It is perhaps the oldest card that runs on the 545.29.02 series driver.

CPU is a 6th gen i5.

I'm heading out for a walk to contemplate the universe and will post more detail later.

demm

No need, error in the ISO, it is not properly setting X11 for non-free (older nvidia cards definitely can't use a Wayland session), will be corrected next ISO.

lowe

Maybe a stupid question. but will I able to update it to release version when its out?

demm

lowe Yes, of course.
During the test cycle it is a bit harder since many packages are from the build repository (see the first post in this thread), once released, then all is complete normal, everything on the ISO will be in the stable repositories. And since it is a rolling release a regular pacman-Syu will always get you the latest, never a need to re-install.

demm

A second full ISO is uploading, this should be the final ISO and will be released in one or two days (if no new regressions are found).
There was a bit of a delay to get this second ISO out. First full had some bugs, so a second was clearly needed, but with that need it made more sense to wait a few extra days and include Mega Release RC2 on the final ISO.
That was released toady:
https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/rc2/
And you will find all of that on this ISO already, meaning Frameworks 5.249.0, Plasma 5.93.0 & KDE Apps 24.0.95.
Kernel, Systemd, Openssl, Vulkan packages, Alsa & Gstreamer packages were among the many others also updated. Libreoffice 24.2, kkf6/plasma 6 based also moved to a final, stable release.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2024.01.31-x86_64.iso
SHA256SUM:

7e7477cc6056ff3a22f69a09fd5d8d2424544d6511dfa1bc3330acbf6a305f54  KaOS-2024.01.31-x86_64.iso

demm

The January ISO is now released:
https://kaosx.us/news/2024/kaos01/
This concludes the current test cycle, thanks to all who participated.