First, minimal test ISO is uploaded for the May stable ISO release.
This first ISO is dealing with quite a few changes and bugs found during the trial builds from the last few weeks.
Major delay with starting this test cycle was caused by an UEFI boot breakage (after lots of digging it was caused by one file in newer systemd).
To try and go back to a much more reasonable EFI boot image kdeosiso.img, kms is disabled for all graphics drivers (nvidia firmware caused the huge size increase), testing will be needed if that is a possibility for all hardware.
Also is there a move to a new sound backend, phonon-mpv is used, thus no longer needing vlc (Qt5 based) on this ISO.
The locale page in Calamares has issues since the move to Qt 6.7.0, it is till not showing the correct location on load, so make sure to click the map with your actual location, then the install will use the needed locale settings.
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 550 will need attention from those who have the hardware to test this driver.
Plan is to have Frameworks 6.2.0, KDE Applications 24.05, Plasma 6.0.4 and Linux 6.8.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-2024.05.11-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:
2019bac74114fa834e8f906831a547dc85410c83bcadf5cd0189207281b15eea KaOS-2024.05.11-x86_64.iso
On this ISO you will find:
Linux 6.7.9
systemd 253.17
gcc 13.2.0
Qt 6.7.0
Frameworks 6.2.0
Plasma 6.0.4
KDE Applications 24.02.2
Calamares 3.3.6
Octopi 0.15.0 with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool
Known issues:
- The bottom progress-bar in Calamares reacts to mouse clicks & opens a virtualkeyboard (narrow)
