KaOS 2022.12 (UPDATED)
KaOS is pleased to announce the availability of the December release of a new stable ISO.
With over 70% of the distribution rebuilt, a new ISO is more than due. Updates to the base of the system included a new GCC 12.2.0, Glibc 2.36 and Binutils 2.39 based toolchain, CLang/LLVM 15.0, ICU 72.1, Boost 1.80.0, kernel moved to Linux 6.0.12, Systemd 252.3, Libffi 3.4.4/Glib2 2.74.3 stack, Python 3.10.9, Texlive packages moved to 2022, Bash 5.2, Gawk 5.2, and Shadow 4.13.
The move to include ZFS exposed a shortcoming in the installer Calamares. A generated hostid for ZFS during the installation did not copy over to the installed system, thus the installed system failed to match the hostid on system updates where a new initramfs was created. This is now corrected by adding a new zfshostid module to Calamares. This module was presented to upstream Calamares, but is not included yet in a release, at this point it is a KaOS-only option.
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Bobby Borisov:
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KaOS 2022.12 Brings the Latest Plasma, Bugfixes, and New Apps
This year’s latest update to KaOS, 2022.12, gives users Linux kernel 6.0.12, the latest Plasma 5.26 desktop, and adds new tools to the distro arsenal.
KaOS is an independent rolling-release distribution inspired by Arch Linux and entirely focused on the KDE Plasma Desktop and related Qt Toolkit-based software.
Although it uses Pacman as its package manager, KaOS does not rely on software repositories developed and maintained by Arch Linux. Instead, the software is available from in-house repositories, built exclusively for 64-bit systems.
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KaOS Linux 2022.12 Has Plenty to be Excited About
KaOS is a KDE Plasma-based Linux distribution that has a new version that includes some of the latest releases and some new tools.
KaOS Linux 2022.12, a rolling release distribution based on Arch Linux, is now available and includes some exciting additions. First off, the distribution ships with Linux kernel 6.0. Next, KaOS Linux 2022.12 adds KDE Plasma 5.26.4, which is the latest version of the desktop environment. Along with that update are KDE Gear 22.12 and KDE Frameworks 5.101.
Some of the improvements to the desktop include: the Dolphin file manager finally including a selection mode, which makes it easy to quickly select files and folders you want to work with; the Gwenview image viewer now offers brightness, contrast, and gamma controls; Kate (text editor) now includes a Keyboard Macro tool; Kalendar now displays events within popup windows.