KDE 4 on Solaris came to life today on my Opteron box.

Screenshots of running KDE4 [ kdelibs/kdepimlibs/kdebase-workspace/kdebase-runtime ]:

KDE4Solaris

[ my Smugmug gallery ].

Built with Sun Studio 12, QT 4.3.1 and the Apache Standard C++ Library.

OpenGL/Compositing effects are enabled. I Frankenstein'ed the S10U4 Xorg by
adding a bunch of X Extensions Libraries. I was very bold and enabled

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"

And now the real work begins.

So, i had a productive IRC chat this morning with Tackat, who introduced me to
Marble.

Marble is part of kde-edu, and can be built either as a KDE4 application, or just
as a standalone QT application. It runs very nicely on Solaris with QT 4.3.0:

marble-screenshot-0
marble-screenshot-1
marble-screenshot-2

QT/Jambi, recently released, works on Solaris 10 with Sun Studio 11 and QT 4.3.0.

Mandatory pretty screenshot:

http://www.stefanteleman.org/qtjambi/jambisolaris.jpg.

A celebration of life and its byproduct.

I am speechless. And I bet, so are you.

So, OpenSolaris got zing'ed at LinuxWorld by IBM. Of course, that sent Sun's
PR Department to DEFCON 5.

Just got back from a nice trip to California. Mostly Berkeley and San Francisco.

Pics from this trip are here.

And yes, this blog is related to KDE. The clue is in the photo set.

KDE now has a Community at OpenSolaris. And Steve Christensen had made KDE available for download from SunFreeware as well.

so, KDE suffers from bloat, over-engineering and user confusion. apparently.

personally, i never thought that to be the case until now, but, there are others who seem to hold these beliefs to be self-evident. i respect everyone's opinions and beliefs, even though they may be different than, or opposite to, my own.

This past Sunday (July 10) i finally released KDE 3.4.1 for Solaris 10, for both Intel/AMD and UltraSPARC-II. Both of them built with the Sun Studio 10 compilers. Yes, you can install Solaris 10 on an Intel based PC and run KDE 3.4.1 on it. Pentium IV minimum, or AMD. Or UltraSPARC-II minimum.

OpenSolaris is here.
Check it out, it's really cool.