KDE version 1.x

Alec O hopefullifetwo at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 16:54:08 GMT 2017


I don't know how much interest there will be.

But for those who are interested in being able to see and use a piece of
history, some of you may know that one of the KDE developers had done a
bunch of work on KDE version 1 to be able to run it on a modern Linux
system. There really aren't any instructions on getting it compiled and up
and running however, and it's not entirely straightforward.

I wanted to see if anyone was interested in binaries so they can try it out
for themselves without having to compile it. I've made a tarball with
working 32-bit binaries including necessary libraries. I have not been able
to get it working on a multilib system. If someone wants a set of 64-bit
binaries I'd be happy to compile it as 64-bit. There are a few games
working, as well as basic KDE1 utilities. I am working on updating other
KDE1 applications. You must be running X.Org OR XFree86. I could package it
as an RPM or DEB if there was enough interest.

I spent a bunch of time (over 2 weeks) getting it up and running. It DOES
run on a Debian 8 system, and I have spent quite a bit of time running it
to see how well it does.

Surprisingly it's quite stable for being as old as it is. I have not been
able to get it to crash or hang yet. It's also blazing fast. However I
can't say it's secure.

At any rate if you're interested, reply and I'll post a link to download
the binaries, as well as some instructions on getting it up and running.

If you're interested in compiling it yourself, you can get the source code
from either the official KDE Github mirror, or I also host the source code,
along with additional libraries not on the official KDE mirror needed to
compile and run it, on my own Github repository. If you need help compiling
it I'll be happy to help where I can.
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