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 April updates for KDE Software Compilation: 4.6.2, codename "Congrats". Read the full announcement here:
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.6.2.php.
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As you may know, we’ve had 4.6.0 in testing for about a month while the ports tree was in feature freeze. Now that it is open again, we are already dealing with 4.6.1 update, then we’re not going to commit 4.6.0 to ports just to replace it with 4.6.1 in few days. In addition to not having to build KDE SC twice (not all that fun), you won’t experience some youth problems which should have been fixed in the latest release.
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The FreeBSD KDE Team is happy to let you know that KDE SC 4.6.0 has been released a few days ago, and the release is ready for a public test. Before you ask, no, we do not want to put KDE 4.6.0 in the ports tree before FreeBSD 8.2/7.4 is released.
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KDE SC ports have been updated to 4.4.4. See official announcement for details.
New ports:
astro/marble (split from misc/kdeedu4): Virtual globe and world atlas for KDE. graphics/kphotoalbum-kde4: Image viewer and organizer for KDE.
After a long delay due to ports freeze in preparation for FreeBSD 7.3 release, and then subsequent updates for X.Org and GNOME ports, the eagerly awaited KDE SC 4.4.3 with Qt 4.6.2 has been committed to ports! Besides, KOffice ports have been updated to 2.1.2 and PyQt4 to 4.7.3. We had to resurrect multimedia/phonon* ports and now they are installed by default instead of Qt 4 Phonon.
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KDE 4.3.4 and Qt 4.5.3 have been committed to ports.
The KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.3.4 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.3.4 notes can be found here.
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KDE 4.3.1 has been committed to ports.
The KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.3.1 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.3.1 notes can be found here.
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KDE 4.3.0 has been committed to ports.
The KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.3.0 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.3.0 (codename: "Caizen") release notes can be found here.
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