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DX2300

  • 8 hours ago
  • Joined Jul 20, 2020
  • In Poll for default Office Suite

    LibreOffice uses Qt6/kf6 on KaOS, any Qt5 or GTK is disabled here, but it still is not a Qt6 based office suite 🙂.
    The installer will keep the option to select either one, just that Calligra will be the default (already pre-selected) if the poll here shows that preference.
    Image of installer with new options:

  • In Google Earth On KaOS ?

    LOL . I tar'ed /opt/google/earth/pro on my Kubuntu machine and copied it to the KaOS box and it works

  • In Terrific, just terrific.

    Been lurking here for a while, but decided to install the latest ISO (April '24) WITHOUT the proprietory Nvidia driver. Like many of you, I have watched the development of the open-source drivers for a while, and it encouraged me to try KaOS without the chance of breakage due to the driver.

    Works beautifully.
    Sleep, updates, all work as expected.

    I will add that I must work in Microsoft's space a good deal. For that I use MS Edge as a Flatpak, and have everything from Office 365 to voice-to-text working very well. Pipewire has helped make my audio routing for external microphones, headphones, and speakers easy for conferencing. Wayland now works very well on this old Intel i5 6600/Nvidia 950 system.

    Bravo to the developers and testers.

  • In October updates, Plasma 5.20 released

    As you might have noticed, a lot of updates the last week, adding to that all is the move to all users for the just released Plasma 5.20. See the link for what all is new in this major new version. New added to Plasma for KaOS is plasma-disk, it will give you a new option in kinfocenter to see the status of all your hard-drives/sdd.
    The other parts of KDE were updated 2 days ago, those were minor updates to Frameworks 5.75.0 & KDE Applications 20.08.2.
    Krita just released a new version today too, it has a complete new option, using Walt Disney Animation Studios' SeExpr. Unfortunately, SeExpr is crashing Krita, so 4.4.0-1 moved to all users now with seExpr disabled. That will change as soon as seExpr is fixed.

    The whole Glib2 stack was updated too. This involves all GTK/GNOME packages in the KaOS repositories, some 70 packages in all. Glib2 is now at the major new version 2.66.
    Popplers' move to 20.10.0 required the usual dozen or so rebuilds.
    Linux-next moved to the 5.9 series yesterday, but is not ready yet to move to core, a few of the kernel modules are not building yet on this new major version (nvidia-390xx & virtualbox), those issues have to be fixed in the build repo first.
    Then there were rebuilds of close to 200 packages to set those to correct home URL's and use https. The main repo still has another 100 or so that need those fixes, work will continue for those.