KaOS, a lean KDE Distribution
Independent
- KaOS is a built from scratch Distribution, not based on any
KDE and Qt focused
- All is built for best integration with KDE and Qt
Elegant simplicity
- Simple goals, independent decisions bring the power of Plasma 5 to the forefront
About
Idea
The idea behind KaOS is to create a tightly integrated rolling and transparent distribution for the modern desktop, build from scratch with a very specific focus. Focus on one DE (KDE), one toolkit (Qt), one architecture (x86_64) plus a focus on evaluating and selecting the most suitable tools and applications.
Goals
All work is geared toward packaging, not developing new tools or applications. There is no goal to make the most possible software available, KaOS will stay limited in size of the repositories, and will work on quality instead of quantity. That goal makes it clear, a large user base is not what is intended or expected.
Target
It targets users who have tried many Operating Systems/Distributions/Desktop Environments and have found they prefer a Distribution that uses all its available resources to work on one DE to make that the best it can be, and know that after their searches, the best for them is KDE.
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Latest News
KaOS 2015.11
KaOS is proud to present the 2015.11 ISO. The policy is, once a first pacman -Syu becomes a major update, it is time for a new ISO so new users are not faced with a difficult first update. With new builds effecting over half of the KaOS repositories (currently at about 2100), that new ISO
Read MoreEarly November ’15 Status
It might read as not so interesting to some, but since the most important for this distribution is packaging, always adding the latest, making sure every possible package is rebuild for any update and always checking in as many places as possible that updates are bringing improvements, this news article will begin with a long
Read MoreKaOS 2015.10
It is with great pleasure to present to you the 2015.10 ISO. As always with this rolling distribution you will find the very latest packages for the Plasma Desktop, this includes Frameworks 5.14.0, Plasma 5.4.1 and KDE Applications 15.08.1. Bigger news though are two changes. This ISO is the first time that the default XFS
Read MoreEarly September ’15 Status
After skipping last month status news due to the time coinciding with the August ISO release, it is back on track for one of these reports. Since about twenty packages were removed from the repositories (example all of the gstreamer0.10 packages were finally obsolete), there was room to add some new packages. One that was
Read MoreKaOS ISO 2015.08
It is with great pleasure to present to you the 2015.08 ISO. This ISO brings a long list of wonderful improvements to all of KDE. Biggest part undoubtedly is the first time to have the option to run Plasma 5 in a Wayland session. It still is in an early stage so kwin_x11 is of
Read MoreEarly July ’15 Status
A major Qt update is moving to all users today, so a good time to combine that with one of these monthly status reports. An early Qt 5.5 release entered the kde-next repositories almost three weeks ago so all needed rebuilds and new KDE versions could be build on this version. Now that Qt 5.5.0
Read MoreKaOS ISO 2015.06
KaOS is proud to present the 2015.06 ISO. The policy is, once a first pacman -Syu becomes a major update, it is time for a new ISO so new users are not faced with a difficult first update. With the magnitude of changes the last two months, that new ISO is more than due. Most
Read MoreEarly June’15 Status
This time quite early in the month a status post. Reason is this is just not news, but also a warning that a new way of building Calligra is finally moving to all users. With your next upate you will be asked to replace all of the split Calligra with one combined “Calligra” package. This
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