Plasma/Live Images

Try and install Plasma from a live CD provided by several Linux distributions.

Fedora

The Fedora KDE Spin comes with Plasma. New minor Plasma versions are pushed as regular updates for Fedora installations but live media may contain a slightly older release (depending on Fedora’s release cycle).

• Plasma 4 is included in Fedora 21 KDE (maintained until 1 month after the release of Fedora 23).
• Plasma 5 ships with Fedora 22 and above.

KDE neon

KDE neon builds Frameworks and Plasma on a continuous integration system for its Developer Edition. You can use the stable version for builds from Plasma/5.x branches or unstable version for builds from master branches The user edition has builds from released software. http://neon.kde.org/download

Kubuntu

• Kubuntu 15.04 was the first Kubuntu release to offer Plasma 5 as a default.
• Kubuntu 15.10 supports Plasma 5.5.3 through Backports.
• Kubuntu CI is a Kubuntu image plus the Kubuntu CI packages using the latest software from Frameworks, Plasma and Applications Git.

openSUSE

• Plasma 4 is included with openSUSE 13.2
• openSUSE Tumbleweed ships the latest stable Plasma 5 release.
• openSUSE Leap ships Plasma 5 but there are no official live media for Leap. But openSUSE Leap based KDE Plasma 5 live images can be found in SUSE Studio Gallery.
• SUSE Studio Gallery contains various appliances with KDE Plasma desktop.

ALT Linux

• Plasma 4 is included with ALT Linux KDesktop official distribution since 5.0;
• Weekly updated Regular builds include both KDE4 and KDE5 ones (installable LiveCDs built upon our unstable development branch dubbed Sisyphus).

Slackware

Alien BOB (Eric Hameleers) provides a Live image for Plasma 5 based on the development tree "slackware64-current". Login/password are both "live".