The 4.10 release for the KDE Development Platform, Workspaces and Applications is drawing nigh… as you may have read, there is now an additional release candidate in order to test some last-minute changes.
Of course, the KDE developers can only do so much: it’s impossible to test all possible combinations. That is, unless the community at large helps by finding and reporting issues the developers can fix. But doing so requires a 4.10 install. You can of course use packages from distributions, but you may not feel comfortable installing a prerelease on your system (and no one would blame you for that). Of course, if you had something to test without touching your own system…
And that’s exactly what you can do now. Alin and shumski from the openSUSE KDE team have generated live images (based on openSUSE 12.2) for USB and DVD offering a standard 4.10 install, which should provide enough to try the new release and be able to report bugs to the developers.
Some screenshots for the impatient:
And of course, the download links (EDIT: now fixed for good!):
It’s more than 650 Mb, so it won’t fit on a CD, but it will on an USB stick. Follow these instructions to install them to USB media. You can also burn these images to DVD.
If you decide to use it, don’t forget to test (see here what’s needed) and submit detailed bug reports to the developers.
Let’s make 4.10 rock solid!
Your download links became 404. Probably better to link to the iso/ folder and instruct people to download the Reloaded iso of their choice.
I fixed the links. Publishing was still enabled on the Open Build Service, so the images were getting overwritten. Now all should be OK.
OMG, what theme is this?
Wow, the theme looks great!
It’s the new openSUSE default theme for Plasma in 12.3. It looks very nice.
Eek, ya blew the beeg theming secret for openSUSE 12.3! Oh well, I guess the Plasma theme needs testing too.
If you want to test 4.10 the with the KDE default branding, install:
kdebase4-runtime-branding-upstream
kdebase4-workspace-branding-upstream
kdelibs4-branding-upstream
and accept the deinstallation of the openSUSE equivalents.
just be careful as the images are not persistent… so at reboot your changes are gone.
Alin
The links are broken again. Learn to live with Murphy and link to the directory :-)
What is the difference between the “Reloaded” images and the “RC2″ images? I see they have the same build date but the Reloaded images are bigger.
the base system reloaded is against latest stable opensuse, 12.2, the RC2 that you see there and would be announced soon… are against factory (so try it only if you want to see the future)… The list of packages for kde may slightly differ… but nothing essential..
Alin
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Links fixed again. Apparently even without publishing enabled the OBS still replaces the ISOs if building is enabled.
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OK, last ones (i’ve now disabled building completely) :-)
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Medias/images/iso/KDE-Reloaded.x86_64-4.9.97-Build28.1.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Medias/images/iso/KDE-Reloaded.i686-4.9.97-Build28.1.iso
@Will
Those are now with upstream branding
Hi,
links are going to 404 again.
So long
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Hi Luca,
i am a total Linux Noob and make my first steps in the world of SUSE and KDE.
You write:
You can of course use packages from distributions, but you may not feel comfortable installing a prerelease on your system (and no one would blame you for that).
I tried to find the new 4.10 Version under YAST but i can’t find them. Can you give me a more precise help on how to install the new Workspace and Theme via YAST?
Thanks from germany
Jan
@Jan a special repo for 4.10 was not created yet.. you can use the packages from kde:distribution:factory for your flavour… but if you do not feel comfortable just drop in our irc channel… #opensuse-kde
Alin
Only problem that Dolphin still grey!! Why only change colours for KDE panel? If change for each element It will look more pretty
I wonder if that textured background for gwenview ever made it to 4.10.. oh well i guess i’ll have to dl this to find out :)
Great post, thanks. I am afriad to tell you that the links are working, but they are inverted…Speak about Murphy’s laws :P
@istok
It did, but only in fullscreen mode
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The links are backwards. The 32-bit link is pointing to the 64-bit ISO and the 64-bit link is pointing to a 32-bit ISO.
Fixed, thanks.
can you please share plasma theme