Only Desktop and Server currently have official v0.1.0-dev amd64 developer preview ISOs; these are not production-certified builds. Edge and AI Workstation remain planned. No mandatory KINGAI cloud account or bundled KINGAI models.
KINGAI OS Desktop
Published developer preview · v0.1.0-dev · AMD64
KDE Plasma desktop with office and development tools. This public image is a developer preview; disk installation and old-PC compatibility are not certified.
SHA-256 for this published image
3a53c03566a1d72595a5340bdeb3eeec815342ee032fac8e2d4a4a1f9cf1643dKINGAI OS Server
Published developer preview · v0.1.0-dev · AMD64
Headless server foundation advertised with SSH, Podman and cloud-init. Do not replace production hosts with this preview.
SHA-256 for this published image
433bb0dd2b07f8c7579296626d706c662d42938b7b8366983799d50670abb85dKINGAI OS Edge
Real AMD64 test build · no public ISO
For gateways and offline-first nodes. An experimental AMD64 image was built and QEMU BIOS/UEFI live-booted; no published installer, ARM64 or physical device certification.
No published installation image. New builds still require independent installer, upgrade, recovery, and hardware acceptance. No fake download links.
KINGAI OS AI Workstation
Real AMD64 test build · no public ISO
For user-selected model and GPU tooling. Test ISO compiled, but no published download or approved GPU/physical hardware support.
No published installation image. New builds still require independent installer, upgrade, recovery, and hardware acceptance. No fake download links.
Download, verify, and test installation
- Download the Desktop or Server ISO and its matching
.sha256 sidecar. - Run
sha256sum -c filename.iso.sha256 in the same directory; compare with Get-FileHash on Windows or shasum -a 256 on macOS. - Create an empty AMD64 VM using QEMU, VirtualBox or VMware (suggested test resources: 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 64 GiB virtual disk).
- Attempt installation only onto a disposable empty virtual disk. Check boot, network, disk and login; stop if anything fails. Never overwrite a production disk.
Validation boundary: a new separate Server experimental ISO passed BIOS and UEFI live-boot in QEMU. This is NOT an installed-disk certification for the published v0.1.0-dev images. Neither downloadable preview is approved for critical production use.
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