KaOS Linux 2024.05 Brings Bcachefs Support, Marknote Note-Taking App
KaOS 2024.05 is here almost three months after KaOS 2024.03 and ships with the latest and greatest KDE software, including the KDE Plasma 6.0.5 desktop environment, as well as the recently released KDE Gear 24.05 and KDE Frameworks 6.2 software suites, all built on the Qt 6.7.1 application development framework.
One interesting change in KaOS 2024.05, compared to the KaOS 2024.03 release, is that the kernel was bumped to Linux 6.8 from Linux 6.7. With this change, KaOS Linux officially supports the bcachefs file system initially introduced in Linux kernel 6.7, along with the needed bcachefs-tools utilities.
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KaOS 2024.05 Release Gets Closer to Ditch X11 for Wayland
KaOS is a pretty unique independent Linux distro that aims to provide the latest KDE experience and follows a rolling release approach to handle updates.
It started off 2024 with a major 2024.01 release that featured an early build of KDE Plasma 6 before any other distro.
Now, we have yet another release in the form of KaOS 2024.05, which has some useful enhancements. Let's get started.
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KaOS 2024.05
It is a great pleasure to present to you the May release of a new stable ISO.
For the Plasma desktop, the latest Plasma (6.0.5), KDE Gear (24.05.0), and Frameworks (6.2.0) are included. All built on Qt 6.7.1. Among the many changes included in KDE Gear 24.05 are, Dolphin provides a more tailored and informative insights into specific folders by default, so when browsing through recently used files and folders, users will find modification times listed by default and have streamlined access to the most recent items. Itinerary now shows more information about your train and coach facilities. This includes general comfort features such as air conditioning or Wi-Fi, as well as things specifically relevant if you are traveling with young children, a bicycle or a wheelchair. Kdenlive 24.05 added group effects, effects that can be added to clips grouped together all at the same time.
More applications are now ready to use Qt6 and Frameworks 6 including Gcompris, Calligra, KWave, and Kaffeine