Experimental KDE build Distro?

[stmiller]

Anyone know of a distro with cutting edge/unstable experimental KDE? Perhaps a Fedora test release? I want to compile some certain apps with latest KDE stuff in a Virtualbox setup for testing. Thanks for your help.

[Bachstelze]

You mean the new KDE 4 Beta ? If you don't want to build it from source, packages are available for Ubuntu, OpenSuSE and Mandriva :

http://kde.org/info/3.92.php

[stmiller]

Ah thanks! Didn't even think to look at the KDE website... d'oh!

[igknighted]

Theres a repo for opensuse on the opensuse homepage for KDE4. I havent tried the Ubuntu or Mandriva packages yet, but the suse version works well. They also have a KDE4 live CD, but idk if that has an installer or not.

[phreakyo]

you could take a look at sidux... it is a kde-centric offshoot of debian sid, i.e. debian experimental :)

I'm not sure if they have kde4 packages yet, and I can't look as I am not on my linux box, but it is definitely one of the most beautiful, cutting edge distros around

[Bachstelze]

you could take a look at sidux... it is a kde-centric offshoot of debian sid, i.e. debian experimental :)

Wrong. Sid is the codename for the unstable branch of Debian, not experimental. And it doesn't have KDE 4 packages.