Plasma/Live Images: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 21:47, 8 December 2015

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.

Kubuntu

Kubuntu 15.04 comes with Plasma 5.2.
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 live media for Leap, yet.

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).

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 * [https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed_installation#LiveCDs.2FRescue_CD_.E2.80.93_Not_Recommended_for_Installation_.E2.80.93_Cannot_Upgrade openSUSE Tumbleweed] ships the latest stable Plasma 5 release.
 * [https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap openSUSE Leap] ships Plasma 5 but there are no live media for Leap, yet.
+== ALT Linux ==
+* Plasma 4 is included with ALT Linux [http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/ALT-Linux-KDesktop-30571.shtml KDesktop] official distribution since [http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05742 5.0];
+* Weekly updated [http://en.altlinux.org/regular Regular builds] include both KDE4 and KDE5 ones (installable LiveCDs built upon our unstable development branch dubbed Sisyphus).