Early June status
With the move of KDE 4.10.4 to the stable repo’s, some two hundred more packages moved, with those, every package in every repository is build from scratch for KaOS. Starting with the gcc 4.8/glibc...
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Early July Status
Trying to work out the best update model for the different repo’s is starting to take shape for core and main. There will be two kernels in use, one stable, well-tested, only available once a new...
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The goal of having about 1500 packages available in the repositories has been reached ( this does not include any language packs yet). Most packages are steadily rolling, which will be the norm for...
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As stated in the Early August news item, next needed step was to get an installer functioning for KaOS. The Linux Mint installer was the easiest to make work, but it integrates really badly. Biggest...
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You might have noticed, you were re-directed to a new domain name, maybe noticed a whole new name for the Distribution too. While this distribution is not really public and has a small user base,...
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September 17 snapshot ISO
Next in the bi-weekly ISO releases is a September 17 release. KDE 4.11.1 ended up with quite a few regressions from upstream, about all have been addressed and all affected KDE 4.11.1 packages have...
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Early October Status
One thing really lacking for KaOS was addressed by Mcder3, he created a logo for this distribution: The repositories have grown to 1800 packages. All language packs are now available for KDE, Calligra,...
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Second October snapshot ISO
Bi-weekly did not work for this release, updates/rebuilds to systemd/toolchain/util-linux among many other core packages, changed a lot of how the live system started all the needed services. About 25...
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Early November Status
A little later News article then the usual first week of the month. It was thought best to combine, show what has been worked on, and make the announcement of a first publicly released ISO. The regular...
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Due to high traffic, the server had issues with the databases, you might have seen the error page for it when trying to visit the Home page. Repositories and the Online Package viewer were not...
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Early December Status
Español KDE 4.11.4 was announced today, with it came some 65 bug fixes. After almost a week in the KaOS build repository, it is now available for all users. This will be the last of KDE 4.11 for KaOS....
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KaOS 2013.12 ISO released with KDE 4.12.0
Español Late October work started to get a first pre-build for KDE 4.12 up (beta1 at that time). Since then five full versions of this new major release have been built and well tested, so with the...
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Early January Status
Español Welcome to the first News item for 2014. No major announcements this time, maybe a sign of a maturing distribution? As always, the repositories are steadily rolling, largest update is the...
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Xorg 1.15 and KDE 4.12.1 update
Español After about three weeks of testing, the whole xorg 1.15 update (including new mesa and packages new to the repositories) is ready to move to all users. KDE 4.12.1 was build last week, brings...
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KaOS ISO 2014.01
Español Two weeks into the New Year, KaOS is pleased to present you with a first ISO for 2014. The policy is, once a first pacman -Syu becomes a major update, it is time for a new ISO so new users are...
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Early February Status
Español With the move of KDE 4.12.2 to the stable repo, it is a good time to give a status update of KaOS. Moved today is not just KDE 4.12.2, but also a major update, libgcrypt. Much was rebuild for...
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Move to Samba 4
Español KaOS stayed with Samba 3 as long as possible, maintenance from upstream was still active until last December. But it was announced, the 3 series is no longer maintained, so time to move to 4....
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Early March Status/KaOS 2014.03
Español This time a combined Status report and ISO release announcement, quite a lot has happened, so a bit longer article then usual. KaOS is very proud to announce the availability of the March...
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Early April Status
Español On the surface it has been a fairly quiet month since the ISO release March 4. That doesn’t mean nothing was happening, more the opposite, but not all is visible to all users yet. One of the...
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One year Anniversary ISO KaOS 2014.04
Español Many might not know, but it is one year to this date the website went live, the repositories came online, the forum was activated for what has since become the distribution KaOS. A nice way of...
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