Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Apr 2009 16:41 UTC, submitted by KugelKurt
KDE 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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Just install Debian...
by dimosd on Thu 2nd Apr 2009 23:33 UTC
dimosd
Member since:
2006-02-10

You'll get all the 1998 goodies, perfectly bug free ;-)

Edited 2009-04-02 23:35 UTC

RE: Just install Debian...
by sbenitezb on Fri 3rd Apr 2009 02:03 in reply to "Just install Debian..."
sbenitezb Member since:
2005-07-22

Deleted. nvm

Edited 2009-04-03 02:04 UTC

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RE: Just install Debian...
by sbergman27 on Fri 3rd Apr 2009 15:55 in reply to "Just install Debian..."
sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

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!

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RE: Just install Debian...
by rcsteiner on Fri 3rd Apr 2009 18:24 in reply to "Just install Debian..."
rcsteiner Member since:
2005-07-12

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. :-)

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RE[2]: Just install Debian...
by Warnaud on Sat 4th Apr 2009 12:33 in reply to "RE: Just install Debian..."
Warnaud Member since:
2008-07-07

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 ;) ?

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