KDE Plasma 6.4 Has Landed in OpenBSD (undeadly.org)
(Saturday July 05, 2025 @11:34PM (EditorDavid)
from the KDE-Plasma-6.4-Has-Landed-in-OpenBSD dept.)
- Reference: 0178290054
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/1951224/kde-plasma-64-has-landed-in-openbsd
- Source link: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250705081711
[1] OpenBSD Journal writes :
> Yes, you read that right: [2]KDE 6.4.0 Plasma is now in [3]OpenBSD packages... The news was announced 2025-07-04 via a [4]fediverse post and of course the [5]commit message itself, where the description reads....
>
> "[I]n 6.4 the KDE Kwin team split kwin into kwin-x11 and kwin (wayland). This seems to be the sign that X11 is no longer of interest and we are focussing on Wayland. As we currently only support X11, kwin-x11 has been added as a runtime dependency to kwin. So nobody should have to install anything later. This ports update also includes Aurorae; a theme engine for KWin window decorations."
[1] https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250705081711
[2] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/
[3] https://www.openbsd.org/
[4] https://bsd.network/@sizeofvoid/114793643987898997
[5] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=175160799903144&w=2
> Yes, you read that right: [2]KDE 6.4.0 Plasma is now in [3]OpenBSD packages... The news was announced 2025-07-04 via a [4]fediverse post and of course the [5]commit message itself, where the description reads....
>
> "[I]n 6.4 the KDE Kwin team split kwin into kwin-x11 and kwin (wayland). This seems to be the sign that X11 is no longer of interest and we are focussing on Wayland. As we currently only support X11, kwin-x11 has been added as a runtime dependency to kwin. So nobody should have to install anything later. This ports update also includes Aurorae; a theme engine for KWin window decorations."
[1] https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250705081711
[2] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/
[3] https://www.openbsd.org/
[4] https://bsd.network/@sizeofvoid/114793643987898997
[5] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=175160799903144&w=2
Re: (Score:2)
by ArchieBunker ( 132337 )
My firewall/router is an OpenBSD box and my ZFS pool runs FreeBSD.
Re: (Score:2)
by test321 ( 8891681 )
Fair enough. But do you need something like KDE on those systems?
Another Question (Score:3)
Why not?