Superb KaOS 2015.06 Linux Distro Is Out with KDE Plasma 5.3.1, Moves to systemd

The latest Calamares installer is included

Anke Boersma had the great pleasure of informing us earlier today about the immediate availability for download of the KaOS 2015.06 Linux distribution based on the latest and greatest KDE technologies.

Powered by the latest Linux technologies, KaOS 2015.06 is here to offer updated ISO images for users who want to reinstall the operating system or to deploy fresh copies on new machines. KaOS is a rolling-release distribution, so existing users don't need to download the new ISO build.

"KaOS is proud to present the 2015.06 ISO. The policy is, once a first pacman -Syu becomes a major update, it is time for a new ISO so new users are not faced with a difficult first update. With the magnitude of changes the last two months, that new ISO is more than due," says Anke Boersma in the release announcement for KaOS 2015.06.

Prominent features of KaOS 2015.06 include Linux kernel 4.0.5 (with support for Intel microcode updates on boot), KDE Plasma 5.3.1, KDE Applications 15.04.2, KDE Frameworks 5.9.11, systemd 220 for UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) installations, Binutils 2.25, Glibc 2.21, Boost/ICU stack, Gnutls/Nettles stack, move to Libpng 1.6 series, and Qt 5.4.2.

Additionally, the new KaOS 2015.06 distro replaces the kmix component with plasma-volume-control for sound plasmoid, and the Ksnapshot screenshot utility with Kscreengenie. Several apps have been ported to KDE Frameworks 5 and Qt 5 technologies, including the Calligra office suite and Clementine audio player. The Avidemux, Kup, and Mixxx apps have also been ported to the aforementioned technologies but are available to users from the distro's repositories.

The latest Calamares installer has been added

In addition to the new features mentioned above, KaOS 2015.06 comes with the latest Calamares installer. We have just reported that other day news about the features implemented in the first Release Candidate of the Calamares 1.1 distribution-independent installer framework and that it is available for testing in the current Manjaro Linux 0.9.0 Dev distribution.

Last but not least the new ISO build of the KaOS Linux operating system expands the beautiful Midna artwork to provide users with a modern, custom flat icon theme, as well as an all-new theme for the SDDM login manager, written in QML. Download KaOS 2015.06 right now from Softpedia, where you will find a Live DVD ISO images that supports only 64-bit (x86_64) computers.