The launch of the new version of KaOS 2020.07 in which a lot of updates have been made, with which it was considered pertinent to launch a new image of the system in order to avoid that those who download it have to carry out additional downloads of updates.
In this new version updates to new versions are highlighted of the Kernel, the KDE desktop environment, KDE applications, as well as for various components of the distribution.
For those unaware of Shirt they should know that this is a distribution that was created by Anke “Demm” Boersma, who initially worked on Chrakra Linux. KaOS unlike other distros was developed from ceror. According to its developers, its goal to be more differentiated. These include a limited selection of applications or exclusive support for 64-bit architecture.
KaOS is characterized by being a Linux distribution independent which includes the latest version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment and other popular software programs that use the Qt toolkit.
It was originally based on Arch LinuxBut since April 2013, developers started creating their own packages, which are now available from KaOS's own warehouse.
The packaging is managed by the team itself, only for the stable versions, and controlled by the Pacman installer. KaOS uses a Rolling Relase publishing development model and it is only available for 64-bit systems.
What's new in KaOS 2020.07?
In the announcement of the new version highlights "the incorporation of a consistent design" and a header area for systray applets, as well as notifications, the Updated look of the media player applet in the systray.
This is thanks to the implementation of the desktop environment KDE Plasma 5.19.3, KDE applications 20.04.3, Qt 5.15.0, Table 20.1.3, among other components.
The basic version includes a Photoflare image editor, a VVave music player, and the Kdiff3 utility.
The design theme has been modernizedIn addition, support for systemd-bootloader-based boot process themes was added.
Moreover in the installer Squids, whenever possible, QML-based modules are used, including a new QML module to configure keyboard parameters, and a module to configure localization is under development.
While for the part of the updates to the base of this distributionn include Cfitiso 3.480, Poppler 0.90.1, Pciutils 3.7.0, Git 2.27.0, Libacp 2.39, Pam 1.4.0, Glib2 2.64.3, Guile 2.2.6, NetworkManager 1.26.0, Perl 5.30.3.
At the heart of the system we can find the Linux Kernel 5.7.8, in addition to the fact that Ksplash is simplified with fewer moving images, the SDDM theme has a better contrast.
Other important changes mentioned in the announcement of this launch is that this new ISO uses CRC and finobt activated in the XFS file system by default.
Finally for those interested in knowing more about it about this launch, you can check the details within the official announcement In the following link.
Download KaOS 2020.07
Finally, if you don't have KaOS installed on your computer yet and you want to download and install this Linux distribution focused on the KDE desktop environment on your computer or you want to test it under a virtual machine.
You just have to go to the official website of the distribution and in its download section you can get the system image. The link is this.
You can save the downloaded image to a USB device with the help of the Etcher application.
Si you are already a KaOS user, you must have received these updates in the last few days. But if you don't know if you already have them installed, just open a terminal and run the following commands in it:
sudo pacman -Syuu
With this, you only have to accept the updates if they exist and I recommend restarting your computer.