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 proud to announce the release of KDE 4.1.1 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.1.1 release notes can be found at:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1to4_1_1.php.
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Hot on the heels of KDE 3.5.9, the KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 3.5.10 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 3.5.10 release notes can be found at:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.10.php.
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The KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 3.5.9 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 3.5.9 release notes can be found at:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.9.php.
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Max has spent some time dragging KDE 3 into shape, and we would like to make it available for test. Max writes: "KDE 3.5.9 was released six months ago and 3.5.10 is coming soon. I'm not sure we have time to get 3.5.10 for FreeBSD 7.1/6.4 release, but we can do KDE 3.5.9.
KDE 3.5.9 is ready in area51 repo, it builds fine on tinderbox (7.0-RELEASE, i386). It will be nice to test it on other platforms and releases. If there is no problem we can update KDE 3 ports anytime."
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Packages are now available for KDE 4.1.0 on the FreeBSD FTP servers. Users who don't wish to build from source can now use these to quickly have a KDE 4.1.0 desktop.
On behalf of the FreeBSD KDE team, it is my great pleasure to announce that KDE 4 has been merged into the FreeBSD ports tree. The official KDE 4.1.0 release notes can be found at http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.1 and FreeBSD users should also refer to the KDE 4.1 on FreeBSD notes.
KDE 4.1.0 is now undergoing final testing in preparation for committing to ports. The repocopy from KDE 3 has been made, but users should not attempt to install the KDE 4.1.0 ports until a HEADS UP notification has been posted to the project mailing list and the ports mailing list.
Qt 4.4.1 has been committed to ports. New Qt 4 modules are available now: qt4-assistant-adp, qt4-phonon, qt4-phonon-gst, qt4-clucene, qt4-help, qt4-help-tools, qt4-webkit, qt4-xmlpatterns, qt4-xmlpatterns-tools.
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KDE 4.1.0 porting is progressing.
At the moment, the ports are ready for testing before they are committed to the FreeBSD ports tree. If you want to help test them to speed up the process, visit the FreeBSD wiki and provide feedback.
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