Comments on: Unofficial KDE 3.5 Live CD for openSUSE 11.1

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:42:21 +0000

Having trouble with nvidia drivers, so X doesn’t come up. I tried to run NVIDIA-.sh but it complains about no ‘ld’. The graphics card is a GEForce 8600, anyone point me in the right direction?

By: Popoi

Popoi — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:12:43 +0000

Does ‘Extra languages Add-on CD’ work with this unofficial edition?

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:23:59 +0000

This is very nice; I’ve just installed from the unofficial KDE 3.5.10 CD of OpenSUSE 11.1 onto an old Gateway e1400 desktop circa 1999 (Celeron Coppermine 566mhz, 512mb RAM, i810 IGP, still has old Win98 SE product key sticker on the side — it was given to me by a friend who I helped move).

Compared to the official KDE 4.1.3 version of OpenSUSE 11.1, the unofficial KDE 3.5.10 version simply flies! Gone are the stuttering pauses of KDE4 while changing focus between application windows. Switching between apps is much faster; pages load and update much more quickly, and everything feels nimble and smooth. Heck, this is even better than some other “lite” distros on this machine. KDE3 FTW!

By: SpuTuM

SpuTuM — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:15:28 +0000

At last, THANK YOU.
Just about ready to ditch SUSE. I hate the new look to messy stuff doesn’t work. What happened to if ain’t broke don’t fix it. At least give us the option SUSE people. How is it more productive to have a menu that slides out here then slide out some more the more I dig looking for what I want. And if I want to go back to classic look I loose the quick start menu? Oh look lets shaft Gnome as well. Arghhhhh are we losing our way here.

By: Dexter1979

Dexter1979 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:58:10 +0000

Thank you for this. I have been trying to create a live-USB but failed. Downloading it now! I will join the save KDE3 movement :)

By: Carlos Goncalves

Carlos Goncalves — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:00:45 +0000

I doubt it. Mirrors have been stable since the beginning (no timeouts), but still…

“Official” torrents are also available:

- http://www.cgoncalves.info/suse/11.1/iso/openSUSE-11.1-KDE3-LiveCD-i686.iso.torrent
- http://www.cgoncalves.info/suse/11.1/iso/openSUSE-11.1-KDE3-LiveCD-x86_64.iso.torrent
- http://www.cgoncalves.info/suse/11.1/iso/openSUSE-11.1-KDE3-LiveUSB-i686.raw.gz.torrent
- http://www.cgoncalves.info/suse/11.1/iso/openSUSE-11.1-KDE3-LiveUSB-x86_64.raw.gz.torrent

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:33:03 +0000

After several timeout errors downloading from the mirrors, I am glad to be downloading this as a torrent. Thank you to whoever is seeding these:

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2175700 — OpenSUSE 11.1 KDE-3.5.10 32-bit
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2175703 — OpenSUSE 11.1 KDE-3.5.10 64-bit

By: JonZn4SUSE

JonZn4SUSE — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:28:48 +0000

The new KDE cannot replace 3.5 just yet. There are a few features missing.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:25:05 +0000

Good job. Save KDE3!

By: jamal

jamal — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:08:07 +0000

Yes, there is a torrent for this at http://www.tuxdistro.com.