Comments | galaxar: This must be the geekiest thing I've ever done.

galaxar

This must be the geekiest thing I've ever done.

Mar 09, 2009 23:26

I'm running KDE 4.2.1 for Windows via Wine in PCLinuxOS.

O_o

Go me.

Comments 6

havocinacan March 10 2009, 07:28:02 UTC

Wow, Kris. You've managed to write a post that makes no sense to me whatsoever! :D

galaxar March 10 2009, 17:00:32 UTC

W00t! I confused Jenna! :D

Seriously though. Explaination of what KDE is. Wine provides a compatibility layer that allows me to use windows software in Linux. PCLinuxOS is the version of Linux that I run. Any other questions? :D

Hey, Mike! I'm surprised you haven't posted to this yet. (or maybe you haven't seen it yet?)

galaxar March 10 2009, 17:04:03 UTC

because LJ doesn't have an edit function (really, LJ?!)

The KDE people recently ported over KDE and its different applications to Windows.

broknwindupdoll March 10 2009, 22:29:18 UTC

This is perverse in so many ways.

It also saddens me that you can't (that I can see) use KDE as a shell in its Windows port. Seems about the only reason you'd want it ...

galaxar March 11 2009, 02:22:31 UTC

Well, according to this Ars Technica article, http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/01/testing-kde-42-release-candidate-on-windows.ars/2, you can. I'm still working on it, though.

galaxar March 11 2009, 03:01:21 UTC

AHA! you need to install 4.2.0, THEN upgrade to 4.2.1 Plasma is not included in the 4.2.1 release. very odd.