Testing ISO's are now available

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Hi together,

On Sunday we will make our new release, which contains a bunch of new features and changes.
This upcoming release does remove the offline installation from the ISOs, but we will provide one ISO, if a user needs it.
The testing ISO can be found here:

https://mirror.cachyos.org/ISO/testing/kde/

Here a list of the feature changes (full changelog with come in the final announcement):
Features:

  • Filesystems: Introduce bcachefs as filesystem choice
  • pacstrap: Add detection if bcachefs is used and install bcachefs-tools
  • CachyOS-AI-SDK: Introduce new install option to have a OOB NVIDIA SDK Setup
  • CachyOS-Deckify: Provide own variant for Handhelds (experimental)
  • ISO: Drop Offline Installation
  • Package Updates: Python 3.12, gcc 14.1.1, mesa 24.0.7, xwayland 24.1 branch, NVIDIA 550.78

Bug-Fixes:

  • settings.conf: Move hardware detection before netinstall
  • pacstrap: Use btrfs-assistant instead of btrfs-assistant-git
  • plymouth: remove plymouth hook on zfs + encryption
  • ISO: Add various config files for KDE, to avoid getting into Screenlocker at Installation Time
  • services-systemd: Properly enable fstrim.timer
  • umount: Disable emergency to avoid issues with the zfs installation
  • shellprocess: Cleanup leftovers from the offline installation
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FWIW, I used the new testing ISO today on a new motherboard, AMD 7970x, and NVIDIA RTX 3090 and had no problem (simple KDE install, systemd, ext4 file system). A wonderful distribution as always!

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Link is dead. Wanted to at least test out BCACHEFS.

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These where testing ISOs and we have pushed the final release.
Please use the website to download it.

https://iso.cachyos.org/240512/cachyos-kde-linux-240512.iso

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OK I have that ISO, but when I went to install there is no option for BCACHEFS.

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BCacheFS is not supported by grub. You need to select Refind or Systemd-boot.

If your system does not support UEFI, then you need to wait until grub will provide support for it.

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Ah OK I’ll wait. One question though the articles I’ve read said it supports snapshots, but from what I remember Systemd-boot at least does not, is that correct? Also from what I’ve read Systemd-boot does not support dual booting without some additional work by the enduser.

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Youre mixing things up. Snapshots are supported by bcachefs and you can also restore snapshots.
This has not anything to do with the bootloader. The “grub-btrfs” implementation just makes it possible to boot from snapshot, but a general snapshot ability works for zfs, bcachefs and btrfs.

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But from everything I understand snapshot will not show on the boot loader screen for systemd boot.