View Full Version : Recent distro that still provides KDE 3.5?
Jordanwb
July 21st, 2010, 02:55 AM
I know that Gentoo has the kde-sunset overlay which has kde 3.5 but I'd like a binary distro. Are there any other recent distros that have kde 3.5 available? I think Debian Stable does (or did) but it doesn't have the new DRM graphics code or a HAL free environment.
Yes I'm aware KDE 3.5 is old.
forrestcupp
July 21st, 2010, 03:02 AM
I'm not on Ubuntu right now, so I can't check. But can't you still install it from the repos? I thought you could have both.
Jordanwb
July 21st, 2010, 03:16 AM
Performing a 3.5 version search in synaptic gives no directly relevant results. There may be a third part repo for it.
KDE 3.5.10 is still the stable version in Debian 5 it seems.
BTW to any mods, I thought there was another forum for other linux distros but I couldn't find it so I put this thread here.
cariboo
July 21st, 2010, 04:14 AM
You can probably find older kde debs here (http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/).
Dustin2128
July 21st, 2010, 04:19 AM
there's also the Trinity project (http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/), a fork from KDE that continues development of the 3.5 series, discovered them when I had the sudden urge to run KDE 3 instead of the unstable, resource hungry 4.
Side note: is it just me or is windows 7's wm based heavily on KDE 3?
cascade9
July 21st, 2010, 04:33 AM
Vector Linux 6.0 still has KDE 3.5.10.
RHEL/CentOS is 3.5.10 as well.
marshmallow1304
July 21st, 2010, 05:25 AM
Mepis (http://www.mepis.org/) 8.0.15 uses KDE 3.5.10.
NightwishFan
July 21st, 2010, 05:40 AM
I think OpenSUSE has a community 3.5 repo, but I advise Debian Lenny.
NormanFLinux
July 21st, 2010, 05:54 AM
Even PCLOS deprecated KDE 3.5. Its very old now and what is wrong with KDE 4.4.5? It will only get better with time.
murderslastcrow
July 21st, 2010, 08:47 AM
Assuming you know that you can make Kicker the classic menu, make the desktop classic instead of a widget for the folder, and reproduce much of the interface and functionality to make KDE 4 seem very much like KDE 3.5, I think Trinity might be your best bet in the long run.
However, the developers weren't kidding when they said KDE 3.5 was becoming hard to manage. I don't know if these trinity people can do it.
It would be fair wiser to make a QT4 based KDE 3.5 look/function-alike with lighter memory requirements than to try to hack KDE 3.5 for the future. A like QT environment, like Xfce is to Gnome, now that I'd like to see.
But yeah, you're kind of running out of time, here. I knew a bunch of people were dreading this, but it seems that the loud portion of KDE 3.5 users that were complaining have mostly moved on. Otherwise, there would be a higher demand/better effort to keep it around.
Good luck finding the right one. Hopefully you won't have to go to an older distro.
forrestcupp
July 21st, 2010, 02:18 PM
Side note: is it just me or is windows 7's wm based heavily on KDE 3?
It's just you. ;)
I've used KDE3 and Windows 7, and they're not that much alike.
Jordanwb
July 21st, 2010, 03:55 PM
I'll give KDE4 a try and see how I like it. I still remember KDE3.5 and being possibly the best DE ever made, it was simple, minimal BS, quick to boot even on a T21 Thinkpad and looked great. I am aware that it would be hard to make KDE3.5 work with recent software such as using udev instead of HAL and using pulseaudio instead of ALSA.
I downloaded maverick Kubuntu and I like it. It's nice. Time to backup /home
NormanFLinux
July 21st, 2010, 05:18 PM
KDE has progressed in the direction of a completely modular desktop. Something Windows has yet to achieve! You can customize the panel the way you want. I didn't get the hang of the widgets setup at first but now I do!
snowpine
July 21st, 2010, 05:59 PM
+1 to Debian Stable or CentOS 5.x. Either of those options will support KDE 3.5 for at least another year.
Jordanwb
July 21st, 2010, 07:06 PM
I installed Kubuntu Maverick and damn KDE4 sure looks pretty but it's a PITA to use. BRB going back to Gnome.
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