The Discussions and Opinions forum is a place for open discussion regarding everything related to KDE, within the boundaries of KDE Code of Conduct. If you have a question or need a solution for a KDE problem, please post in the apppropriate forum instead.
The Latest and Greatest...
Page 1 of 1 (11 posts)
Tags:
None
Registered Member 
|
What distro (or variant thereof) should I try in order to check out the very latest KDE 4.x? I mean the bleeding edge, completely unstable stuff, daily updated straight from the dev's desktops (or as close to that as possible)? I would like to install something like that on a VirtualBox VM for testing.
zak89, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Nov.
|
KDE Developer
|
Most distros have a daily KDE Subversion trunk package. I suppose you could go with OpenSuSE as it seems the most stable and easiest to install said packages.
|
Global Moderator
|
The other option would be to install Kubuntu 8.10 and add the neon nightly repository for KDE 4.2
Works a treat :shade:
Debian testing
|
Administrator
|
Well, if you want KDE 4.2, i'd rather suggest the beta over nightly:
http://www.kubuntu.org/node/58 Edit: beta 1 was released yesterday fyi 
Last edited by sayakb on Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:08 am, edited 1 time in total.
|
Registered Member
|
i am working with kubuntu beta1 - not the neon packages.. but.. could the nightly build be even more experimental? ^^
Kubuntu 12.04 x64 | KDE SC 4.8
Nvidia 8800 GTS | Core2Duo E6600 | 4 GB RAM |
KDE Developer
|
I hope to release KDE4Daily 4.2 this weekend, which is (usually daily) SVN builds from a big chunk of trunk, all packaged up in a Qemu image. Usually a VirtualBox image follows quite soon.
ssj-gz.blogspot.com: KDE4Daily, Konqueror4 Restoration
|
|
Administrator
|
Nightly would be largely unaltered kde (commit to kde == changes in nightly (neon))
Beta == nightly + a few fixes, or vaguely, it is a polished nightly.
Last edited by sayakb on Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:22 am, edited 1 time in total.
|
KDE Developer
|
Nightly tries to install itself in a way that it won't affect your current KDE install at all. It's not perfect at doing this, due to all the bugs you see. Most of these bugs arise from the way Neon does(n't) interact with the rest of your system. Since the Beta1 packages for Kubuntu are normal packages they don't have all the bugs that Neon has.
|
Registered Member
|
If I were to install the Beta packages, how far behind (if at all) would they be from the Nightly Neon? I've just seen, in the nightly, a pretty major fix to the ZUI. And, would I have to completely reinstall KDE in order to revert to 4.1? What kinds of bugs would I expect to be resolved by using the Beta instead of the Nightly Neon?
SteveMcQwark, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Nov.
|
|
KDE Developer
|
Beta 1 was tagged November 18th so you will be three weeks behind. Beta 2 is been tagged next week and released the week after that.
|
Registered Member
|
If you really want the latest you could set an hourly cron script that svn updates and compiles like I do. Not really. I'd recommend in this order: Beta, Neon, kdesvn, svn&make install. Any one is fine. Just enjoy it |
Page 1 of 1 (11 posts)
Bookmarks
Who is online
Registered users: Bing [Bot], Evergrowing, Google [Bot]
