Tina KDE and Debian

[sammil]

Tina,

There is a way to install Debian with KDE. Pasting from Joey Hess


Last weekend I spent a couple days doing the usual marathon of beating my brains out against the wall of debian-cd, and got the following image added to the weekly full CD builds:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-binary-1.iso

(Also for other arches of course.) This is a CD that will install KDE instead of the Gnome desktop that comes in the other etch install media. You can get the same effect without this special CD, if you have a good internet connection, by booting a current daily of the installer as follows:

install tasks=kde-desktop



The kde-desktop task may not be as complete and well-rounded as the gnome-desktop task has become thanks to stratus's work, but it should be at least a good basic KDE desktop.

What do you think?

[Lavene]

I think that's great. I still wish that the installer offered both (maybe the net-install will?) but this is a great step in the right direcion. I have always had the opinion that default to one particular DE is undebian like...

Is this official? Do you have a link to Joey's statement?

Tina

[deanlinkous]

(thread jumping)

Is not even on the first CD? I assumed it was on there but just not installed?

Why not come up with a good preseed file that will install KDE&friends and not gnome and then share it with everyone. Good idea maybe?

[Lavene]

It looks like it's an alternative CD1. (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/)

Tina

[deanlinkous]

I wonder if it will be a regular offering?

http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/KDE_CD.html