First, minimal test ISO is uploaded for the January stable ISO release.
Calamares had quite a few partition module changes, including the option to hide LVM/encrypted installs, not used for this ISO. For the most part though this ISO is needed for a massive amount of updates.
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 565 will need attention from those who have the hardware to test this driver.
Plan is to have Frameworks 6.10.0, KDE Applications 24.12.1, Plasma 6.2.5 and Linux 6.12.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-2025.01.11-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:
3db560d98d43a093e69a209bf2c2ef87119ec6841d9825dec5b79742a2252b4d KaOS-2025.01.11-x86_64.iso
On this ISO you will find:
Linux 6.12.9
systemd 253.30
gcc 14.2.0
Qt 6.8.1
Frameworks 6.10.0
Plasma 6.2.5
KDE Applications 24.12.1
Calamares 3.3.14
Octopi 0.16.2 with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool
Known issues:
