This is the website for using, installing and building KDE® software on the FreeBSD® operating system. You can find documentation for applications that behave differently on FreeBSD than on Linux®. The installation and compilation instructions are specialized for FreeBSD administrators. In 2018, most of the content of this site migrated to the KDE community wiki. This site continues to operate as a news page and to point the way into the community site.
The KDE® community is an international technology team dedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and frameworks for building new applications.
FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD's code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
The KDE/FreeBSD team hopes this site will be a valuable resource for all who are interested in maintaining the high level of compatibility between FreeBSD and KDE Software (KDE Frameworks 5, KDE Plasma and Applications and Extragear) that has been seen to date. The goal is to facilitate the discussion of patches, finding bugs, suggesting features and hopefully becoming a valuable member of both the KDE and FreeBSD communities.
A full KDE Plasma 5 Session, with KDE Frameworks underneath, Plasma Desktop, and KDE Applications, can be had directly from ports or packages. For details, see the KDE-FreeBSD community wiki.
The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce version 2.5 of Calligra, coming to the ports tree after a short testing period which showed it to be quite stable.
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While waiting for the final release, the KDE/FreeBSD team invites you to test the release candidate of the Calligra Suite version 2.5 via the area51 repository:
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KDE office suite, Calligra, has been updated to its latest version, 2.4.3. You're all invited to upgrade, and to have a look at the release notes. Meanwhile, release 2.5.0 is approaching, with cool new features!
Just a quick update to let you know that tonight we updated our Qt version to 4.8.2. Upstream changelog can be found here: https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/blobs/4.8/dist/changes-4.8.2.
After a short incubation period, Calligra Suite has landed in the ports collection with his brand new 2.4.2 release. Users of KOffice should move on to this new suite, deinstalling any KOffice port and installing equivalent Calligra ones (as noted in UPDATING).
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The long awaited KDE SC 4.8.3 was just committed to ports, along with Qt 4.8.1, Phonon 4.6.0, PyQt 4.9.1, and many more updates you shouldn't care about. What you should be aware of is that KDE-Pim was finally updated and put in sync with the Software Compilation. As UPDATING suggests, if you want to stick with 4.4.11.1, you can replace deskutils/kdepim4 with deskutils/kdepim44.
While we wait for the ports feature freeze to be over, we invite you to test the upcoming updates in the KDE land: Qt 4.8.1; PyQt4 4.9.1; KDE SC 4.8.2.
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The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce KDE Software Compilation 4.7.4, which concludes the 4.7 series. We invite you to read the original announcement.
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