My first thought was that this was an April Fool's joke, but as it turns out, this is real (I actually downloaded and tested it). The openSUSE KDE team has created a KDE 2.2.2 live CD using openSUSE 11.1 as a base. It boots like any other live CD, but instead of the latest and greatest KDE 3.x or 4.x desktop, you're presented with a fully functional KDE 2.2.2 desktop. That sure brought back some memories!
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OMG, this made me almost cry. However, this is pretty usable and stable desktop, which I remember using and laughing at Gnome 1.4 users... KDE ROCKED, in some way it still does, but there's something broken about it, and I think it's development process (a few articles before is comparison KDE4/Gnome dev process).
I used to use kde 1.x line as well, remember kde 2 being best thing since sliced bread on Mandriva 7.2... I'm old.
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I didn't submit this item like that.
Stephan Binner is a KDE developer. This live CD was made by him alone. He took the RPMs from ars3niy (see comment on linked page). ars3niy has obviously no connection to Novell or http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Contributions/Ars3niy wouldn't be rather empty.
It is hosted on kde.org.
Why you call him "the openSUSE KDE team" after Novell fired him, is beyond my apprehension.
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Stephan Binner is a KDE developer. This live CD was made by him alone. He took the RPMs from ars3niy (see comment on linked page). ars3niy has obviously no connection to Novell or http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Contributions/Ars3niy wouldn't be rather empty.
It is hosted on kde.org.
Why you call him "the openSUSE KDE team" after Novell fired him, is beyond my apprehension.
It's sad that he was one of the victims in Novell's last round of headcount reduction, but he is still actively participating in the opensuse-kde team. And we're grateful for it.
The KDE4 liveCDs he produced were always hosted by kde.org, because they were originally intended to demonstrate KDE4 during the development cycle. He was the first developer to produce a liveCD for KDE4, in what seems like ages ago. The first and subsequent ones were created via the openSUSE build-service and related tools, which virtually automate the process. The liveCD for 2.2 was produced in the same manner.
He made reference to the opensuse-kde team in his own blogpost, so I hardly think the summary is out of line.
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Check the source of the article:
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3926
That's your answer as to why I stuck with "the openSUSE KDE team".
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I have an old Red Hat CD which includes CDE- Common Desktop Environment- free as in beer, but not FOSS; before KDE or GNOME or any other such desktop was available. I haven't attempted to use it for a long time- I thought I might mention it for those who don't know where the inspiration for KDE came from. Maybe I'll try running it tonight in Virtual Box!