The release of KaOS 2022.04 has been announced, a distribution with a continuous update model aimed at providing a desktop based on the latest KDE releases and applications using Qt. Among the distribution's distinctive design features is the vertical panel positioned on the right side of the screen. The distribution evolves with a nod to Arch Linux but supports its own independent repository containing over 1500 packages, as well as offering a number of custom graphical utilities. The default filesystem used is XFS. The builds are published for x86_64 systems (2.8 GB).
In the new release:
- Desktop components have been updated to KDE Plasma 5.24.4, KDE Frameworks 5.93.0, KDE Gear 22.04, and Qt 5.15.3 with patches from the KDE project. It also includes a package with Qt 6.3.0.
- Package versions have been updated, including Glib2 2.72.1, Linux kernel 5.17.5, Systemd 250.4, Boost 1.78.0, DBus 1.14.0, Mesa 22.0.2, Vulkan packages 1.3.212, Util-linux 2.38, Coreutils 9.1, and Libusb 1.0.26. A new LTS branch of the proprietary NVIDIA drivers 470.xx is included.
- To manage connections to wireless networks, the background process IWD developed by Intel has replaced wpa_supplicant.
- The package includes the document scanning application Skanpage.
- The Calamares installer has added a Log View mode, allowing users to display log information about the installation process instead of an informational slideshow.
Source: opennet.ru
