KDE Plasma 5.14.1 is now available in the repositories

Oct 24, 2018 15:08 GMT  ·  By

If you've wanted to test drive the upcoming Plasma Edition of the Solus operating system, Joshua Strobl announced today the general availability of a new testing ISO image with latest the KDE Plasma 5.14 desktop environment.

After giving us the feature-rich and luxurious Budgie desktop, as well as dedicated editions with the GNOME and MATE desktop environments, the Solus Project now readies the Solus Plasma Edition, a special edition featuring the latest KDE Plasma desktop environment and related technologies.

An ISO image for the Solus Plasma Edition is now available for public testing, which you can download here, featuring the recently released KDE Plasma 5.14 desktop environment, along with the KDE Applications 18.08.2 and KDE Frameworks 5.51 open-source software suites, all built against the Qt 5.11.2 open-source software development framework.

Joshua Strobl reminds us that with the Solus Plasma Edition, users will be able to perform a clean install of the Linux-based operating system with the latest KDE Plasma desktop environment on top of it. This means that you won't have to install KDE Plasma over the default desktop environment of an existing Solus edition anymore.

"A testing ISO for the Plasma Edition is now available," said Joshua Strobl in the weekly roundup. "Over the last couple of weeks, a majority of the packages have been updated and rebuilt. This provides a stateless implementation of the Plasma desktop on top of Solus."

KDE Plasma 5.14.1 now available for all Solus users

If you already use the Solus operating system with the KDE Plasma desktop environment, Joshua Strobl informs us that the KDE Plasma 5.14.1 point release is now available in the main software repositories, along with the KDE Applications 18.08.2 and KDE Frameworks 5.51 software suites.

Besides all the KDE work, the Solus developers also updated the libssh library to version 0.8.4, as well as the libinput library to the latest bug fix release for the 1.12 series, and the GEGL graph-based image processing framework to the most recent release. They also updated the Nvidia drivers to versions 390.87 and 410.66.