Download KaOS_Test

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

Calamares added a new way of creating users, but that resulted in complete wrong permissions for the newly installed system /home directory, thus that new UMASK option is disabled for now. There were some issues with qt6-virtualkeyboard 6.8.0 crashing the users module on finding hunspell, building without hunspell support seems to have fixed this, side effect of that is the bottom progress bar no longer responds to mouse clicks (was a long standing bug).

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 560 will need attention from those who have the hardware to test this driver.

Plan is to have Frameworks 6.8.0, KDE Applications 24.08.3, Plasma 6.2.3/4 and Linux 6.11.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-2024.11.09-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:

bb62c0ab737d0b8ecb6c29d73e69cb36a67d59a62406518cbddce1c6253783b6  KaOS-2024.11.09-x86_64.iso

On this ISO you will find:
Linux 6.11.7
systemd 253.26
gcc 14.2.0
Qt 6.8.0
Frameworks 6.8.0
Plasma 6.2.3
KDE Applications 24.08.3
Calamares 3.3.11
Octopi 0.16.2 with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool

Known issues:

  • None at this time
6 days later

First full ISO is uploaded.
A few issues were fixed, like incorrect links in Croeso & Welcome due to the new website.
Among the many updates from last week were a new kernel alsa packages and linux-firmware.

If no new issues are found, then this ISO should become the next stable release in a few days.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2024.11.15-x86_64.iso
SHA256SUM:

451814813420c591227d2d07da117e43bd0e6a7c0892f6187e64a77c72692ad9  KaOS-2024.11.15-x86_64.iso

Is off-line installation unsupported? I see a spinner with a message "Packages Loading Failed".

  • demm replied to this.

    mparillo Sorry, not enough info, but yes, offline is fully supported, just the Welcome page will show a warning.

      Thank you. I did see the warning, and I will see what I can do about testing later.

      Make sure to post the full installation.log, right now not even clear when you see that error/warning.

      That would have been difficult as that desktop is truly disconnected. But I did re-test with sudo calamares -d from Konsole instead of just clicking on install from the greeter, and it worked on the same computer with the same USB thumb drive. So, you may want to delete this thread until I can find a better way to test.

      Well, I had a bunch of crashes in the users module (QML or hunspell related, never was clear), before I uploaded any test ISO, so you might have another qt6-declarative 6.8.0/QML issue. But I need to be able to replicate to work-around another 6.8.0 issue (if that should be the case).