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KaOS Linux Gets the KDE Applications 18.08 Treatment, Latest Calamares Installer

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Marius Nestor
Sep 22, 2018

KaOS 2018.08 is August 2018’s ISO snapshot for the independently developed GNU/Linux distribution inspired by Arch Linux and built around the latest KDE technologies. It ships with the most recent KDE Applications 18.08.0 open-source software suite, as well aas the KDE Plasma 5.13.4 desktop environment and KDE Frameworks 5.49.0, all built on the Qt 5.11.1 framework. Apart from the latest KDE updates, KaOS 2018.08 is powered by the Linux 4.17.17 kernel, which is the last in the series, and comes with the latest X.Org Server 1.20.1 display server, Mesa 18.1.7 graphics stack, Arch Linux’s Pacman 5.1.1 package manager, Wayland 1.16.0 display server, GStreamer 1.14.2 multimedia framework, and LLVM/Clang 6.0.1 system compiler.

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Marius Nestor

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