FreeBSD

What is FreeBSD?

FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD's code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. The FreeBSD website has all the information needed (especially the handbook) to install and configure FreeBSD itself.

KDE on FreeBSD

The KDE/FreeBSD team hopes this site will be a valuable resource for all who are interested in maintaining the high level of compatibility between FreeBSD and KDE Software (through KDE4, and now with Frameworks, Plasma Desktop and Applications) that has been seen to date. The goal is to facilitate the discussion of patches, finding bugs, suggesting features and hopefully becoming a valuable member of both the KDE and FreeBSD communities.

Here on KDE TechBase, we provide technical information on how KDE is built and packaged on FreeBSD and how you can contribute -- for instance by building software from the KDE community yourself. The KDE/FreeBSD team can be found on IRC and the KDE mailing lists. Other organizational information can be found on the KDE/FreeBSD website.

Other Resources

There is a FAQ page regarding KDE/FreeBSD.

You can reach the KDE/FreeBSD team through the mailing list or on Freenode IRC.

The FreeBSD wiki KDE/FreeBSD page is aimed at information for the FreeBSD project, such as quarterly reports.

Building KDE SC trunk under FreeBSD

(The information on the pages linked here is obsolete in various ways) Please see the page on building KDE SC for general instructions. See the page on building KDE SC under FreeBSD for specific information for FreeBSD.