KaOS KaOS Community Packages (KCP) was created so everyone can share the PKGBUILDs they created or adjusted for KaOS Moving away from proprietary Operating Systems to open source options (Linux-based, BSD based, Solaris based) is about wanting freedom and choice in almost all cases
KaOS KaOS’ creation Croeso (Welsh for welcome) for helping with configuring a new installation is included It will run on the newly installed system and offers to adjust some 15 commonly used settings, includes a custom Wallpaper selector, distribution info, and the option to select packages to install from six different groups
Download - KaOS Download KaOS 2026 02 ISO KaOS makes regular ISO releases available, so any (new) user is not confronted with a large or complicated first update Those who already have KaOS installed do not need to reinstall, a regular system update will always give you the latest
KaOS 2025. 11 KaOS’ creation Croeso (Welsh for welcome) for helping with configuring a new installation is included It will run on the newly installed system and offers to adjust some 15 commonly used settings, includes a custom Wallpaper selector, distribution info, and the option to select packages to install from six different groups
KaOS 2025. 01 A Lean KDE Distribution KaOS kicks off the new year with the availability of a new stable ISO, featuring Plasma 6 2 KDE Applications 24 12 Updates to the base of the system were numerous and included SQLite 3 48 0, Rsync 3 4 1, DBUS 1 16 0, LLVM Clang 19 1 7, Poppler 25 01 0, Gstreamer 1 24 11, Fwupd 2 0 4, kernel moved to Linux 6 12 11, Systemd 253 30, ZFS 2 3 0, Tzdata 2025a, OpenSSL 3 4
KaOS 2025. 05 KaOS’ creation Croeso (Welsh for welcome) for helping with configuring a new installation is included It will run on the newly installed system and offers to adjust some 15 commonly used settings, includes a custom Wallpaper selector, distribution info, and the option to select packages to install from six different groups
KaOS 2024. 09 KaOS’ creation Croeso (Welsh for welcome) for helping with configuring a new install is included It will run on the newly installed system and offers to adjust some 15 commonly used settings, includes a custom Wallpaper selector, distribution info, and the option to select packages to install from six different groups
Systemd and the future of KaOS So, KaOS has always chosen AUFS over Overlayfs, even though the latter has become part of the kernel The above are all core reasons why even have a small, independent distribution, if none of those are important to anyone, why even have KaOS? Changes in systemd In 2013, systemd was the modern init system, fully modular, fitting very well for KaOS
Latest News and Updates - KaOS KaOS 2026 02 Feb 15, 2026 You will not find Plasma or Kwin on this ISO, though KaOS has always been a KDE Plasma only distribution Read article →