Shirt I think it is a distro that does not need many presentations, although it is not one of the most popular, it is a well-known project. A good distribution for lovers of the KDE community and the Plasma project. As you well know, this distribution has been launched every x time with important news and updates that its developers are implementing. Well, if you are one of the KaOS lovers I have to tell you that we have good news from this blog for you.
KaOS now has a new version which brings all the latest software updates, as well as various improvements and bug fixes that nurture the user experience when using this operating system. Sounds interesting right? Well, now we are going to analyze what are those news that we can find in KaOS 2019.08, an ISO that you already have available for download from the official website of the project.
It is a very inspired GNU / Linux distro / based on the fantastic and powerful Arch Linux, but with the latest news and technologies offered by the great KDE project, such as its Plasma desktop environment (KDE Plasma 5.13.4) of the latest generation, access to all the latest apps integrated between the software packages that you will find in KDE Applications 18.08 and also KDE Frameworks 5.49.0, all based on the Qt 5.11.1 library.
This new version is not another version, but rather a very special one, since almost 70% of the packages included in this distro have been updated with the latest versions, an important figure. Among the renewed packages you will find Mesa, Xorg Server, Wayland, GStreamer, LLVM / Clang, Rust, Ruby, OpenJDK, NetworkManager, Protobut, Calamares 3.2 installer, and of course interesting firmware or microcode updates to correct the microprocessor vulnerabilities that have been found lately.