This is mostly a reminder for all to run pacman Qm on a regular base on this rolling distribution. Running that say, once a month, will show you which packages are no longer in the...
pacman Qm
After almost 9 years of running the Jekyll based website, it is time for an update/upgrade. Jekyll doesn't seem to be getting many updates, so a much newer and very active framework is now in u...
A new, Qt6 based browser is added to repositories, Ladybird It is not ready for everyday use (pre-alpha state), but it is a complete indep...
Since quite a few apps needed to be removed (not maintained, no commits in a few years, no sign of porting away from deprecated Qt5), there is a room for a new app. Since a few code editors als...
A first, simple install has been successfully done for the all new bcachefs filesystem. Calamares can't create this filesystem yet, but setting bcachefs in Partitionmanager prior to starting th...
Plasma 5.27 will be the last Plasma version based on Qt5, so it is getting time to see how far Plasma Qt6 based will build. That means, all of the Frameworks will have to be build on Qt6 first.
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 GitHub is disabled, the package has to be reve...
Next month will be the ten year anniversary of KaOS, it was launched April 2013
To get good logs has always been a bit of a challenge, since you have to know what journalctl commands to use. That is now a thing of the past, Kjournald gives the option to view the logs from a n...
A dedicated Markdown editor is added to the repositories (Kate has some plugins to use markdown with preview). Ghostwriter is similar to Focuswriter, but specifically geared toward Markdown and...
For those who selected to use ZFS as their filesystem with the latest, October, ISO, will encounter a boot problem once their new installed system regenerates the kernel image. This can happen on ...
When KaOS started in 2013, there was some serious consideration to base this distro on Illumos. One of the biggest draws for Illumos was the
Qt 6.0 betas and rc have been in the kde-next repository for the last 4-6 weeks. Yesterday the first stable version was released, Qt 6.0.0 and is now available in the regular, stable repositories.<...
KaOS is getting ready to move to Wayland as the default session, current ISO in testing has made that switch. That also means all default applications used on an ISO (thus part of the default i...
Two new KDE applications (QML based for both) have been added to the repositories. First is Skanpage. It will become part of the monthly KDE apps/gear releases this year, and will replace Kooka...
Nvidia 495.44 has just been added to the [build] repo. With this version come two major changes, first one, it should now be possible to run a Wayland session with the non-free driver, second, sup...
After an hiatus of over four years, CAD software is back in the KaOS repositories. Freecad was still Qt4 based in 2017 (as were many of the needed depends), and had to be removed with the Qt4 r...
Since IRC is the main used communication channel besides this forum, it is important that it will keep working as should. There is major turmoil at Freenode:
It has been a very busy few weeks for KaOS. The last ISO has only been out a little over three weeks, but a new ISO is already planned. Reason is a much larger than usual amount of updates, pa...
