OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21243/Retro_Linux_News_KDE_2_2_Live_CD_Available Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 20 May 2013 05:33:33 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Switching from KDE4 NOW http://www.osnews.com/thread?356455 http://www.osnews.com/thread?356455 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. Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kajaman) Comments well... http://www.osnews.com/thread?356460 http://www.osnews.com/thread?356460 well, it *is* an April Fool's joke, just a very thorough one ;) Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments RE: well... http://www.osnews.com/thread?356464 http://www.osnews.com/thread?356464 That's the key ingredient to a good April Fool's joke (or any other joke/prank)..... commitment and determination!!! Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nathbeadle) Comments OMG, Thom.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?356533 http://www.osnews.com/thread?356533 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 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KugelKurt) Comments Just install Debian... http://www.osnews.com/thread?356553 http://www.osnews.com/thread?356553 You'll get all the 1998 goodies, perfectly bug free ;-)Edited 2009-04-02 23:35 UTC Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dimosd) Comments RE: Just install Debian... http://www.osnews.com/thread?356594 http://www.osnews.com/thread?356594 Deleted. nvmEdited 2009-04-03 02:04 UTC Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbenitezb) Comments RE: OMG, Thom.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?356615 http://www.osnews.com/thread?356615
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.


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. Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elsewhere) Comments RE: Just install Debian... http://www.osnews.com/thread?356727 http://www.osnews.com/thread?356727
You'll get all the 1998 goodies, perfectly bug free ;-)

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! Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments RE: OMG, Thom.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?356732 http://www.osnews.com/thread?356732 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". Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments RE: Just install Debian... http://www.osnews.com/thread?356769 http://www.osnews.com/thread?356769 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. :-) Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments RE: Switching from KDE4 NOW http://www.osnews.com/thread?356846 http://www.osnews.com/thread?356846 You are old, LOL?
I used the Apple II and the Vic! Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous Penguin) Comments RE[2]: Just install Debian... http://www.osnews.com/thread?356886 http://www.osnews.com/thread?356886 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 ;) .
Can we run compiz o KDE 2.2 ;) ? Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Warnaud) Comments CDE baby! http://www.osnews.com/thread?357220 http://www.osnews.com/thread?357220 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! Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CristobalDeLicia) Comments