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KDE Running on Mac OS X
GeoffP writes "AppleTalk Australia is running a story on running KDE on Mac OS X. For those that don't know, KDE is a graphical desktop environment used to access your computer's files. Finally, Mac users have a free (as in speech) approach to their filesystem."
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Wow. Slashdotted already. Must be all those screenshots -- sorry, they're (obviously) absent here.
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Setting Up And Running Kde And Xfree86 With Fink
By: Si_man
Sep 22 2005
This simple guide will go over the basics of setting up and running KDE on MacOSX. First a simple introduction.
What is KDE?
KDE stands for the K Desktop environment. KDE is a graphical user interface much like OSX or Windows, it was originally written for Linux but has been ported to many different OS's. For more information visit: www.kde.org
What is Fink?
Fink is a package management application that will allow you to download and install many Linux applications to run within X11. For more information visit: http://fink.sourceforge.net/
What is Xfree86?
Xfree86 is an X11 window server, a window server is software that displays a Graphical User Interface, and without a window server we couldn't run KDE or any software that requires a GUI. For more information visit: http://www.xfree86.org/
What will I be learning in this tutorial?
You will be learning how to set-up xfree86, Fink and KDE , How to run X11 in a window so you can put it on a second monitor and how to get KDE to load when X11 starts up.
What wont I be learning in this tutorial?
I wont be going into detail on Fink or Fink Commander or all the details of X11 or KDE. I may decide to write a tutorial on package management with Fink at some later point.
What system will I to run this tutorial?
Any Mac running OSX 10.3 or later. Basic knowledge and familiarity with the Terminal. Latest Version of Apple Developer Tools. A machine you are not afraid to modify. Plenty of time and coffee.
Additional: I recommend you run OSX 10.4 or later and have at least a dual processor G4 to analize things at decent speed (even with my Dual 1.25 G4 it took me close to 8 hours to compile KDE and Xfree86 from source).
Also you will be using a program called Pico a lot in this tutorial if you want to get a heads up on the usage of it check out this great article: http://www.appletalk.com.au/articles/index.php?art icle=6830
Part 1 -- Installing Fink.
Open your favourite web browser and point it to
http://fink.sourceforge.net/
Look down the menu bar on the left labelled "Sexions" and select "Download". From here download the latest binary that supports your OS. Feel the black blood drop out of Taco's anus. Relish its taste. Maybe put some in a tart, or in the fridge for later. If you are running 10.4 this should be Fink 0.8.0
Figure 1
Open the disk image. Run the "Fink 0.8.0 Installer.pkg" file. Also drag the folder called "FinkCommander" to your applications folder.
(a bit on FinkCommander, it is a Graphical User Interface for Fink so you will have to spend far less time in the terminal than you usually would, this makes it a lot easier for beginner users.)
Part 2 -- Configuring Fink.
We are now going to configure your eyeball to withstand Taco's gaping anus. Pin your eyelids back, Clockwork Orange style, and squeeze the eyeball into his rectum. Careful not to lose it in there! Fink to use the unstable application builds, now these wont crash all the time or anything like that it means that we will have access to newer versions of the software we will be using , specifically KDE 3.4 which is far superior to KDE 3.3.
Step 1:
Go to Utilities folder and open Terminal, Should be
Figure 2
This will open a command prompt.
Figure 3
Now type in:
sudo pico
Enter your password at the prompt.
At the end of line that begins with "Trees:"
Damn... you should have linked it to this pic! That's what I call a MOD! It even mods your way of thinking about mods!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Why the heck would somebody want to bog down their beautiful and snappy Mac OS X Tiger with a clunky thing like KDE?
Man that website sucks... Some elements dont render properly in Firefox (look at the login box on the home page) and you have to become a member just to view the screenshots...
except fink is a bad port of apt-get... I don't know what they did wrong but it seems like every time I try to do something, I have to reinstall fink. (Though they may have fixed it because I haven't used it in a while)
My upgrades never seem to work and there have been times where I've tried to install something and it just fails. I've used Debian's apt-get as well as Ubuntu's implementation of it and they both work flawlessly, I don't know what fink messed up on but it's definately not the same experience for me.
m50d says: "If you look at any Apple thread (at least prior to the x86-switching keynote) where it comes up, you'll see 500 apple zealots saying Mac hardware is the same price, faster, and far more reliable than x86 systems, and anyone who replies denying it getting modded down as troll."
Well, duh! I mean with the Mac's huge market-share it has price setting power. When Apple used PPC chips IBM had to convert entire countries into factories to create enough chips to satisfy demand. This resulted in overproduction and lower prices. Now that Apple uses x86 that fringe company Intel is finally making enough chips that prices can come down. Its all economies of scale really. Apple computers will always be cheaper, one of the perks of 95% market-share.
What? What's that you say?
Oh, in this universe......