Submitted by 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!
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.
You are old, LOL?
I used the Apple II and the Vic!
well, it *is* an April Fool’s joke, just a very thorough one
That’s the key ingredient to a good April Fool’s joke (or any other joke/prank)….. commitment and determination!!!
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.
Edited 2009-04-02 22:56 UTC
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.
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”.
You’ll get all the 1998 goodies, perfectly bug free 😉
Edited 2009-04-02 23:35 UTC
Deleted. nvm
Edited 2009-04-03 02:04 UTC
KDE 2.2 was released in August 2001, and was current through April 2002 when KDE 3.0 was released. Which was the beginning of KDE’s long, slow decline, unfortunately. KDE 2.2 rocked!
As others have mentioned, it’s a lot newer than that. KDE 2.2 is one of the reasons Mandrake 8.x *ROCKED* on my 64MB PPro/200 systems. 🙂
Exactly, at this time, KDE had awesome features and was really fast. I just want to launch KDE 4 on my old Cyrix166+ with 32MB of RAM for fun
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Can we run compiz o KDE 2.2
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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!