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HappinessNow
August 10th, 2009, 09:54 PM
Is there a pure form of a KDE distro out? perhaps put out by KDE?

(as opposed to Kubuntu or others?)

Skripka
August 10th, 2009, 09:57 PM
I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

Arch KDE is about as Vanilla as it gets, in terms of the packaging avoiding patching etc, as far as KDE packages provided by a distro. I suppose you could compile KDE yourself-if you have lots of space CPU cycles and lots of time on your hands.

HappinessNow
August 10th, 2009, 10:00 PM
I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

Arch KDE is about as Vanilla as it gets, in terms of the packaging avoiding patching etc, as far as KDE packages provided by a distro. I suppose you could compile KDE yourself-if you have lots of space CPU cycles and lots of time on your hands.I mean a KDE distro put out by the KDE development team NOT Arch!

Skripka
August 10th, 2009, 10:03 PM
I mean a KDE distro put out by the KDE development team NOT Arch!

Ah. Well-then the answer is an easy-nope.

CJ Master
August 10th, 2009, 10:04 PM
I mean a KDE distro put out by the KDE development team NOT Arch!

KDE is a Desktop Environment, not an Operating System.

snowpine
August 10th, 2009, 10:04 PM
Did you think to check the KDE website?

http://www.kde.org/trykde/

Twitch6000
August 10th, 2009, 10:08 PM
I mean a KDE distro put out by the KDE development team NOT Arch!

the KDE team always uses OpenSuse for their livecd.

So that would be your answer.

aysiu
August 10th, 2009, 10:30 PM
I think Debian's pretty vanilla.

chucky chuckaluck
August 10th, 2009, 10:32 PM
kde, in the ubuntu repos, describes itself thusly...

"This metapackage includes all the official modules released with KDE that
are not specific to development. In addition to the core KDE modules, this
includes multimedia, networking, personal information manager (PIM),
graphics, education, games, web development, system administration tools,
and other artwork and utilities."

if you don't want the whole mess, you can probably just install kdebase, kde-runtime and kde-workspace (something like that) and whichever kde apps you like .

wojox
August 10th, 2009, 10:38 PM
I used http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purekde for pure gnome and he has one for pure KDE

HappinessNow
August 11th, 2009, 12:23 AM
KDE is a Desktop Environment, not an Operating System.
I heard about a KDE dev putting together a custom pure KDE but I am not sure what the base was?

Jucato I think was his username, on IRC

I was wondering if anybody has caught wind of this development?

quazi
August 11th, 2009, 12:26 AM
I heard about a KDE dev putting together a custom pure KDE but I am not sure what the base was?

Jucato I think was his username, on IRC

I was wondering if anybody has caught wind of this development?

KDE4live is based off of Suse, but I think it's put out by the KDE team.

CJ Master
August 11th, 2009, 12:26 AM
I heard about a KDE dev putting together a custom pure KDE but I am not sure what the base was?

Jucato I think was his username, on IRC

I was wondering if anybody has caught wind of this development?

"Pure" DE's are called Vanilla DE's. You can put a vanilla KDE on top of Debian/Arch.

ibutho
August 11th, 2009, 12:27 AM
the KDE team always uses OpenSuse for their livecd.

So that would be your answer.

Agreed. You can get the live cd from http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live/ . Its a lot better than KDE 4.x on Kubuntu.