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.
KDE Frameworks 5 in ports have been update to the latest release from KDE.org, version 5.32. The ports infrastructure has been updated to be ready for the current release of KDE Applications, version 16.12.3. The latter are not yet available in official ports, but they are in the unofficial ports tree in area51, in the plasma5/ branch.
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The KDE-FreeBSD team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Qt 5.7.1 and KDE Frameworks 5.31 in the official FreeBSD ports tree; check out FreshPorts for the latest ports news.
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The KDE-FreeBSD team loves announcing that area51 is all up-to-date with the latest software releases from the KDE community. The unofficial ports tree for KDE-FreeBSD now contains KDE Frameworks 5.31, KDE Plasma Desktop 5.9.2 and KDE Applications 16.12.
The official FreeBSD ports tree has been updated with this month's KDE Frameworks release, version 5.30. New in this release on the FreeBSD side is the inclusion of x11/kf5-kwayland, which opens the door to Wayland-compatible applications using the KDE Frameworks.
The KDE-FreeBSD team has updated the unofficial ports tree, area51, with the latest release of KDE Plasma, 5.8.5. This version is available from the unofficial ports tree for KDE-FreeBSD, area51, in the plasma5/ branch.
The KDE-FreeBSD team is proud to introduce the KDE Frameworks ports into the official FreeBSD ports tree. The KDE Frameworks are 70 libraries that build on top of Qt5 and provide lightweight, modular support for all kinds of functionality for Qt5 applications. The KDE Frameworks also serve as the platform on which KDE Plasma 5 and KDE Applications are built.
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The KDE-FreeBSD team is happy to announce that the latest Qt LTS (Long-Term Support) version, Qt 5.6.2, has been committed to the official FreeBSD ports tree. This marks the next step towards importing KDE Frameworks 5 into the official tree. Users of Qt5 ports can update as usual.
The latest KDE Frameworks release -- this month is 5.27 -- is available in the unofficial KDE-FreeBSD ports repository, area51. Users of the plasma5/ branch in that repository can update as usual. or from the bleeding-edge packages provided by the KDE-FreeBSD team.
The KDE community has published an LTS (long term support) release of KDE Plasma 5.8. This version is available from the unofficial ports tree for KDE-FreeBSD, area51.
The unofficial ports tree for KDE-FreeBSD, area51, continues to keep pace with upstream KDE releases. This week, it has been updated with Plasma 5.7.4 and KDE Applications 16.08.1. Users of the plasma5 branch of the area51 repository can update normally.
