About "elgatolinux" review:

@gato2707 said it's no alternative to Calligra in repos. @dago has reply quickly saying Libreoffice is available in the repos.

Also, he doesn't like the PKGBUILD, wants a easier way to install external apps. It could be two posibilities, a comunity repo or something like .deb in Debian. Download and install.

Finally, he said that Illumos will be the future kernel of KaOS. Is it true? First notice for me.

About "elgatolinux" review:

Finally, he said that Illumos will be the future kernel of KaOS. Is it true? First notice for me.

Never seen the About page?

Doesn't mean a switch WILL happen, as the situation is currently, it won't, but it is a wish.

It's true! I forgot it, sorry.

5 days later

Thorough, good review, with a major issue/flaw mentioned:

Do you agree with the assessment?

Those who use older nvidia cards, does nvidia 304 work better for you then nouveau? Would you use nvidia 304 if KaOS offered that driver?

For discussion on this, please post at:

2 months later

It's an opinion of kaos and others distros.

It's an opinion of kaos and others distros.

Buena y reposada opinión.

4 days later

Not sure what language this is, or what exactly is said, seems rather negative about why this distro and some issues found:

Hi,

This review isn’t negative but positive, for people to use this distro. KaOS is very good, run smoothly and have no problem (small bugs with calligra and qupzilla). In conclusion of this review, question is why to use this distro, and why it is better from other distro? So answer is: independent distro (from source), focus to one architecture, one Desktop environment, one toolkit. This mean that the distro will be much quality, and it is easy to use, but not support i386 bit. And some users have "fear" for "new" distro (not for this distro), but KaOS is another excellent linux distro, and i hope it will have a nice features (i read that is wish to use illumos kernel, or i have mistake). Keep up the good work!

Sorry for my bad english :

@ core2

Thanks for clarifying :)

Semi review, plus an optional extra download link:

YouTube video review/demo:

Youtube vídeo review KaOS Linux 2014.04

(spanish audio)

7 days later

Linux Action Show did a small segment on KaOS yesterday:

Short review, conclusion, no reason for KaOS to exists:

Fortunately for us, you did not see it that way ;-)

12 days later

One that shows the essence of KaOS fairly well:

One conclusion, the target user, goal needs to be better defined. Do you agree? Do the FAQ and About section need further explanation of this distribution?

If so, any help in wording it better/more/different is appreciated.

I disagree. I'm not English-speaking, however the reason I installed Kaos is because I read and understood the About and FAQ. In my opinion they are very clear.

One more, just parrots the wording of the previously linked review, this one no need to question if the website does not explain the goals/ideas, clearly did not read any (seems maybe read the front page). certainly did not read the About or FAQ, as is shown in his remarks about Skype:

21 days later

One of the bigger magazines reviewed KaOS:

Nice to see a reviewer getting to know the goals/ideas behind a distribution first, good review of the issues with the installer too.

The best reviews so far, I think. He understood that is KaOS.

Seems impossible to get it through, this is not Arch based.......

It has a similar feel to arch, especially due to pacman, but a shared package manager does not mean it's of the same distribution. A system containing yum isn't necessarily yellow dog linux, just because redhat copied the code and used it. A lot of people don't see that so easily though.

My only complaint is that it uses systemd, making boot and shutdown quicker by a couple seconds at the expense of system stability and portability