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pkgname=calamares
pkgver=3.3.0alpha2
pkgrel=22
pkgrel=23
pkgdesc='Distribution-independent installer framework'
arch=('x86_64')
url='https://calamares.io/'
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text: qsTr("<h3>KaOS - 2023.04</h3>
<p>To celebrate ten years of KaOS a new ISO is released.</p>
<p>For the Plasma desktop, the latest Plasma (5.27.3), KDE Gear (23.03.90), and Frameworks (5.105.0) are included. All built on <b>Qt 5.15.8+</b>. Among the many changes included in Plasma 5.27 are the Big Multi-monitor Refactor to make working with screens much more reliable. There is also a new fine grained control tools when the user has 3 or more screens connected. For those with a large monitor KWin has long been able to place one window on the left and one on the right. Now with Meta-T the quick tiling is launched allowing complete control of where your windows are placed. Drag windows with Shift pressed and it will stick to the tiled layout. And a new System Settings module has been added to easily control the settings for Flatpaks.</p>
<p>Not only is there a new stable ISO released, but to look at the next ten years, there is also a Plasma 6 preview ISO available. This ISO is not installable, only meant to test in Live mode. The installer Calamares is not ready for Qt 6/Plasma 6, nor are there many KDE Applications available in their Qt6 version. This ISO is only linked in the News item, not available from the Download page.</p>
<p>And to look back, there is an option added to play music during the install. This was a common feature some 10-15 years ago, but has never been available in KaOS, thus available this one time, ten years later.</p>
<p>For the Plasma desktop, the latest Plasma (5.27.4), KDE Gear (23.03.90), and Frameworks (5.105.0) are included. All built on <b>Qt 5.15.8+</b>. Among the many changes included in KDE Gear 23.04 are the option to run Dolphin with kio-admin, thus giving the option again to run Dolphin with administrator rights from the menu.</p>
<p>Updates to the base of the system included a OpenSSL 3.0.8, CLang/LLVM 15.0.7, Libtiff 4.5.0, Sqlite 3.40.1, kernel moved to Linux 6.2.9, Systemd 253.2, Libffi 3.4.4/Glib2 2.74.3 stack, Python 3.10.10, Dracut 059, ZFS 2.1.9, Gnupg 2.4.0, and Libarchive 3.6.2.</p>
<p>Updates to the base of the system included a OpenSSL 3.0.8, CLang/LLVM 16.0.1, Libtiff 4.5.0, Sqlite 3.41.2, kernel moved to Linux 6.2.10, Systemd 253.3, Python 3.10.11, Dracut 059, ZFS 2.1.9, Gnupg 2.4.0, and Libarchive 3.6.2.</p>
<p>Big thanks goes to <strong>YourHostingSolutions</strong> for not only providing a mirror, but also providing a server for KaOS. With the discontinuation of Fosshost, a new server was sorely needed.</p>
<p>The move to include ZFS exposed a shortcoming in the installer Calamares. A generated hostid for ZFS during the installation did not copy over to the installed system, thus the installed system failed to match the hostid on system updates where a new initramfs was created. This is now corrected by adding a new <code>zfshostid</code> module to Calamares. This module was presented to upstream Calamares, but is not included yet in a release, at this point it is a KaOS-only option.</br>
It is now also possible to select the EurKEY layout in the keyboard page.</p>
<p>To get good logs has always been a bit of a challenge since you have to know what journalctl commands to use. That is now a thing of the past, <strong>Kjournald</strong> gives the option to view the logs from a nice GUI, with all kinds of filter options in the left-hand pane (it is now part of the default install)</p>
<p>New applications added include <strong>Ghostwriter</strong>, a dedicated Markdown editor. A start is also made to get ready for Plasma 6. For the adventurous, the kde-next repository is used for a complete Qt6-based KDE stack, all Frameworks are built there on Qt6, most of Plasma and a few KDE Applications have also been ported to Qt6. Plasma 6 does boot but is not usable yet (so, of course not part of this ISO).</p>
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<p>For Nvidia, a new longterm support version is included in this ISO, 470xx. The move by Nvidia to 495 meant the end of support for Kepler based cards, thus the need to add a new legacy version.</p>
<p>Qt 6.4.3 is included and is now far more complete since many more are ported from Qt5, this includes qt6-location and the big one, qt6-webengine (plus all the Qt6 webengine depends on). A few test applications have been build on qt6-webengine, including some web browsers. All of the PyQt packages are now available in a Qt6 version too. Plus the Kvantum theming has support for Qt6.</p>
<p>Qt 6.5.0 is included and is now far more complete since many more are ported from Qt5, this includes qt6-location and the big one, qt6-webengine (plus all the Qt6 webengine depends on). A few test applications have been build on qt6-webengine, including some web browsers. All of the PyQt packages are now available in a Qt6 version too. Plus the Kvantum theming has support for Qt6.</p>
<p>Since LibreOffice 6.2, it is now possible to supply this as a pure Qt5/kf5 application. LibreOffice has thus replaced Calligra as the default Office Application for KaOS.</p>
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<p>To avoid any misunderstanding and confusion, KaOS is <b>not based upon, derived of, or inspired by</b> any one particular distribution. It is completely independent, build entirely from scratch with its own repositories. To read more about this see <b>http://kaosx.us/about/based/</b>. A <b>rolling release distribution</b> never has a final release, every ISO is merely a snapshot of the current status of the repositories. An idea what is currently available:</p>
<p>The ISO ships with <b>Frameworks 5.104.0, Plasma 5.27.3, KDE Applications 23.03.90</b>, Linux 6.2.9, Systemd 253.2, Kmod 30, NetworkManager 1.42.4, LibreOffice 7.5.2, Elisa, Xorg-Server 1.21.8, Mesa 23.0.1, Glibc 2.36, GCC 12.2.0, non-free Nvidia 530 and Python3 3.10.10 to name a few.</p>
<p>The ISO ships with <b>Frameworks 5.104.0, Plasma 5.27.4, KDE Applications 23.03.90</b>, Linux 6.2.10, Systemd 253.3, Kmod 30, NetworkManager 1.42.4, LibreOffice 7.5.2, Elisa, Xorg-Server 1.21.8, Mesa 23.0.1, Glibc 2.36, GCC 12.2.0, non-free Nvidia 530 and Python3 3.10.11 to name a few.</p>
<p>The package manager is <strong>Pacman 6.0.2</strong>, with the simple but powerful Octopi 0.14.0 as GUI frontend. Falkon is the default, Qt based, web browser. <b>GFXboot</b> is included with KaOS artwork, Grub theme is Midna, Look &amp; Feel is a KaOS exclusive version Midna.</p>

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