KaOS 2016.11 Distro Gets KDE Plasma 5.8.3 & Linux Kernel 4.8, AMDGPU by Default

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Marius Nestor
Nov 8, 2016

KaOS 2016.11 is the monthly respin ISO Image of the project, bringing users an up-to-date install medium for new deployments of the Linux-based operating system without having to go to all the trouble of downloading hundreds of updates from the software repositories. Being a KDE-oriented distro, KaOS always ships with the latest KDE Plasma desktop environment, as well as KDE Applications and Frameworks suites. Therefore, KaOS 2016.11 is here to include the KDE Plasma 5.8.3 LTS desktop, KDE Applications 16.08.2 software suite, and KDE Frameworks 5.27.0 collection of add-on libraries for Qt 5.7.0.

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Marius Nestor

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