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Early May ’14 Status
Español These “Early Month Status” reports are full cycle now, first one was published a year ago, May 2013 Status, so a year indication will be added from now on. One of the goals from the start has...
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Early June ’14 Status
A very busy month for KaOS is behind us. To start with the usual, though it was a bit more then normal, a good 700 packages were updated, this combined with the 500 or so more the month before, makes...
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KaOS ISO 2014.06
KaOS is proud to announce the availability of the June release of a new stable ISO. The last two months updates were done to a good 1100 packages and to stay with the policy that a first pacman -Syu...
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Early July ’14 Status
Another month passed where a lot of interesting things happened in KaOS. First the most visual change. The website has undergone a complete overhaul, this to get easier navigation, have all the...
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Early August ’14 Status
Last 4-5 weeks no visual major changes, weeks were more marked with update, rebuild and prepare. Preparation is in full swing to be ready for KDE 4.14 later this month, latest RC is build and currently...
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KaOS ISO 2014.08
With KDE releasing the new major version KDE 4.14.0, offering primarily improvements and bugfixes, KaOS is happy to be able to present you a new ISO with KDE 4.14.0 the same day it is released. KDE...
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Early September ’14 Status
Two things stand out for the last 4-5 weeks in the development of KaOS. A move to UEFI capable ISOs has been in the works for about 5 months, but there finally is a working version available. The...
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Early October ’14 Status
It probably looked like a quiet four weeks for most. And it is true no major visible changes have occurred, but things were far from quiet. As with the goal of this distribution, packaging took most of...
View ArticlePlasma 5/Frameworks 5 plans & test ISO
There has been a lot of internal talk since May this year, and lately discussions on the forum and on the KaOS G+ channel about when and how to move to Plasma 5/Frameworks 5. Following those...
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KaOS ISO 2014.11
KaOS is proud to announce the availability of the November release of a new stable ISO. Since August updates were done to a good 1200 packages and to stay with the policy that a first pacman -Syu...
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Early December ’14 Status
With a late October post about how to proceed with kf5 and the announcement of a new stable ISO November 6, last month was skipped for one of these “Early Month” posts. Resuming it again this month. It...
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KaOS ISO 2014.12
KaOS is very proud to announce the availability of the December release of a new stable ISO. This ISO marks two major milestones for this distribution. Since it’s inception almost two years ago, a need...
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Early January ’15 Status
Quite a lot of news to relay this time. But first it is needed to place a warning. With your next update a conflict will arise from libspnav. Any user that has either Calligra or freecad installed will...
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kf5 ISO 2015.01.25 a Release Candidate?
Since May last year there have been 2-3 monthly snapshot ISOs based on the ongoing work to port all of KaOS to the all new Frameworks 5, Plasma 5 and KDE Applications based on those two. None of these...
View ArticleEarly February ’15 Status
This time a short News post. So much work is happening in the background not visible to the regular that it doesn’t make sense to expand too much on that. KDE 4 was updated to KDE Applications 14.12.2,...
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Kf5 move, KDE 4 removed
Anyone slightly familiar with KaOS knows this announcement was coming. Tomorrow, February 24th, this full move will take place. This will mean the end of the KDE 4 desktop for KaOS. All parts of the...
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KaOS ISO 2015.02
KaOS is very proud to announce the availability of the February release of a new stable ISO. This release brings the end of KDE 4 as the default Desktop Environment for KaOS. Almost ten months ago work...
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Early April ’15 Status
With so many news post leading up to the full Plasma 5 move and new ISO late last February, March was skipped for these monthly status reports. Now that all is settled after all those massive changes,...
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KaOS ISO 2015.04
A nice way of celebrating the second anniversary if this distribution is releasing KaOS 2015.04. The previous two releases were the result of some drastic and fundamental changes to this distribution...
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Early May ’15 Status
With Frameworks 5.10.0 moving to all users today, time to announce the many changes again. Last week Plasma 5 5.3.0 became available for all KaOS users, today also adds Calligra 2.9.4 and LibreOffice...
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