KaOS

KaOS is a KDE Plasma focused conservatively rolling release distribution primarily built upon Arch tools for packaging and package management. While using Arch tools it is not the typical Arch based distributions. It builds its own kernel and packages and hosts its own repositories. It also provides a community distribution with a sophisticated and user friendly online discovery portal. It develops a community package helper program that has a command line interface as well as integration into the default GUI package manager Octopi.
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Estimated Usage Unknown
Inception Year Dec. 1, 2013, midnight
Country United States of America
Website https://kaosx.us/
Download Portal https://kaosx.us/pages/download/
Documentation Portal https://kaosx.us/docs/
Development Portal None
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Distribution Base Arch Linux
Architectures 64-bit PC (AMD64, Intel 64, x86_64)
Init System systemd
C Standard Library GNU C Standard Library (glibc)
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Distribution Default Package Format .pkg.tar.xz
Distribution Default Low Level Package Manager
Distribution Default Package Manager Database
Distribution Default CLI Binary Package Manager pacman
Distribution Default GUI Binary Package Manager Octopi
Distribution Default CLI Source Package Manager
Distribution Default GUI Source Package Manager
Distribution Default Build System makepkg

Editions/Variants/Spins

Logo Distribution Edition Screenshot Edition Release Type Release Frequency Distribution Base Desktop Environment
KaOS Default None None Independent/Original

Reviewed Releases

Logo Release Screenshot Release Name Release Version Release Distribution Edition Release Date Review Publication Date Review Title
None None Oct. 31, 2019 Nov. 29, 2019, 6 p.m. KaOS Review [2019.10 Release]