The windows port for KDE allows users to install and run KDE applications in Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista . This tutorial will guide you step by step through installing KDE in Windows.
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Member since:2005-07-06
The primary goals behind these ports are:
* to reach more developers (lots of them on Windows/Mac either because they are "stranded" or by choice)
* to make open protocols and file formats viable on platforms like Windows; take having Kontact native on all three platforms lets people choose one of half a dozen or so groupware servers and have a single production quality user interface that runs natively on all platforms with the exact same feature set. it's a perfect way to make non-Windows platforms viable on the desktop and non-Exchange groupware systems viable on the server by removing the Outlook problem entirely. repeat for things like ODF (Okular as a viewer, KOffice as another editor suite for ODF), freedom friendly music stores (via Amarok), etc..
having defined the above two goals, and reaffirming our primary commitment as being to Free software platforms, made me feel a lot less dirty about it all 
whether or not it has any leverage in the individual user market at all is an interesting discussion (personally, i doubt it will) but not much more than that =)
Member since:2006-05-09
Member since:2006-07-26
I'll take one that works with samba shares thank you.
Seriously. I heard all these great things about Amarok so I went to try it out and the thing freezes like crazy. XMMS is deprecated (in Gentoo anyway) so I have been using audacious.
Anyway, once XBMC starts working nicely on Linux (music works okay but not video), I'll use that and only that.
Member since:2008-07-04
Sometimes Windows is a better choice: It has better hardware support (for instance, I couldn't get Kubuntu to suspend properly on my Toshiba laptop), and some apps are win only. In those situations you can keep what's best: solid system and innovative KDE apps that you like. All without using Virtualbox of coLinux.
Member since:2008-04-23
Member since:2008-05-27
Remember, Stallman was developing GNU on proprietary platforms at first. KDE on Windows is probably the epitome of OSS development - a huge OSS project starting a port to the most important proprietary platform. This is up there with Apache or PHP being optimized for Windows, in terms of impact/importance.
You do have to realize that some people are used to Windows, some prefer it, and some aren't able to choose their OS (predefined environment).
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2006-07-16
Installing KDE and its programs on Windows just somehow seems wrong! :-) Although, if Windows users get used to using KDE and its applications, they may be more inclined to leave the Windows platform behind for Linux. Otherwise, this whole thing just makes me feel all dirty! LOL!