KaOS News
WEBEarly June status. Early May status. KaOS News. Jul 19, 2024. Archive of all KaOS News articles published since its inception in 2013. Next.
KaOS 2024.09
WEB6 days ago · KaOS 2024. It is a great pleasure to present to you the September release of a new stable ISO. For the Plasma desktop, the latest KDE Gear (24.08.1), Plasma (6.1.5), and Frameworks (6.6.0) are included. All built on Qt 6.7.2.
KaOS 2022.10
WEBOct 6, 2022 · Since LibreOffice 6.2, it is now possible to supply this as a pure Qt5/kf5 application. LibreOffice has thus replaced Calligra as the default Office Application for KaOS. KaOS’ creation Croeso (Welsh for welcome) for helping with configuring a new install is included.
KaOS 2023.02
WEBKaOS 2023. It is with great pleasure to present to you the February release of a new stable ISO. For the Plasma desktop, the latest Plasma (5.27.0), KDE Gear (22.12.2), and Frameworks (5.103.0) are included. All built on Qt 5.15.8+.
KaOS 2022.01
WEBJan 3, 2022 · Three days into the NewYear, KaOS is very proud to announce the availability of a first ISO for 2022. For the installer Calamares there are three major changes. Biggest one is the addition of a bootloader selection module. For UEFI installs it is now possible to select between systemd-boot, rEFInd, or no bootloader, all presented in a nice, QML ...
KaOS 2024.07
WEBJul 19, 2024 · KaOS 2024. KaOS is pleased to announce the availability of the July release of a new stable ISO. For the Plasma desktop, the latest Plasma (6.1.3), KDE Gear (24.05.2), and Frameworks (6.4.0) are included. All built on Qt 6.7.2.
KaOS 2021.03
WEBKaOS is very proud to announce the availability of the March release of a new stable ISO. With almost 60 % percent of the packages updated since the last ISO and the last release being over two months old, a new ISO is more than due.
KaOS 2024.05
WEBMay 27, 2024 · Using phonon-mpv as default now, gives a fully Qt 6 ready backend. New for this ISO is to no longer include the kernel modesetting for all graphics cards, thus shaving roughly 700 Mb of the ISO size. Four years after being end of life, GTK2 is finally removed from the KaOS repositories.
KaOS 2023.11
WEBKaOS is pleased to announce the availability of the November release of a new stable ISO. This will be the final Plasma 5 release for KaOS and includes all the latest updates, but Plasma 5 & Qt5 are not where upstream development is anymore, so it is time to fully focus on Qt6/kf6/Plasma 6.
KaOS 2021.06
WEBJun 29, 2021 · The installer Calamares has two new QML modules. KaOS has ported the Packagechooser to QML, resulting in a clearer and more consistent layout, and giving the option to fully translate this module in the normal Transifex location. The offline Locale module is now also ready for QML.