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 unofficial ports tree for KDE-FreeBSD, area51, has been updated with the newest release of KDE Frameworks, version 5.25, and with the latest release of KDE Applications, 16.08.0. Users of the plasma5 branch of the area51 repository can update normally.
The unofficial ports tree for KDE-FreeBSD, area51, has been updated with the newest releases of KDE Plasma, version 5.7.3. Users of the plasma5 branch of the area51 repository can update normally.
The unofficial ports repository area51 has been updated with KDE Frameworks 5.23.0 which were released today. The plasma5-branch now holds the latest Frameworks, and Plasma 5.6.4 and KDE Applications 16.04.1.
The unofficial ports repository area51 has been updated with the latest release of KDE Plasma, 5.6.5. Users of the unofficial repository can simply build new packages with poudriere. There is no estimate yet on when these ports will end up in the official ports tree.
The unofficial ports for KDE-FreeBSD, area51, have been updated with the newest releases from the KDE community: KDE Frameworks 5.24.0, KDE Plasma 5.7.1, and KDE Applications 16.04.3. All of these ports live in the plasma5 branch of the area51 repository.
Tobias Berner, long-time KDE-FreeBSD contributor, has been accepted as a FreeBSD ports-committer. This means that the team of people actively working on not just area51 ports, but also the official ports, has expanded by one. This is expected to improve the speed at which unofficial ports get turned into official ports.
Recently a whole bunch of small fixes were made in the ports maintained by the KDE-FreeBSD team. The kdehier and kdeprefix ports have finally been retired. New Qt5 ports have been added for the Qt examples, and Qt Designer has been updated.
The unofficial ports repository area51 has been updated with a number of KDE Frameworks 5 and related ports: KDE Frameworks 5 has been updated to version 5.21.0, released April 9th. KDE Plasma 5 has been updated to 5.6.3, released April 19th. KDE Applications have been updated to the newly-released 16.04.
