Distribution release KaOS 2022.04

presented Issue kaos 2022.04 , distribution from the distribution of A continuous model of updating aimed at providing a desktop based on fresh KDE issues and applications using QT. From specific design features for the distribution, the placement of the vertical panel in the right side of the screen can be noted. The distribution is developing with an eye on Arch Linux, but supports its own independent repository, which has more than 1,500 packages, and also offers a number of its own graphic utilities. As a file system, XFS is used by default. Assemblies are published for systems x86_64 (2.8 GB).


In the new issue:

  • Desktop components are updated to KDE Plasma 5.24.4, KDE Frameworks 5.93.0, KDE Gear 22.04 and QT 5.15.3 with patches from the KDE project. The composition also includes a package with Qt 6.3.0.
  • Updated versions of packages, including Glib2 2.72.1, Linux 5.17.5, Systemd 250.4, Boost 1.78.0, DBUS 1.14.0, Mesa 22.0.2, Vulkan Packages 1.3.212, Util-Linux 2.38, Util-Linux 2.38, Coreutils 9.1 and Libusb 1.0.26. The composition includes a new LTS test of proprietary drivers NVIDIA 470.xx.
  • To organize connecting to a wireless network, instead of WPA_SUPLICANT, the IWD background process developed by Intel.
  • includes an application for scanning documents skanpage .
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  • The Log View mode has been added to the Calamares installer, which allows instead of the information slide show to include the log show with information about the installation progress.

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