Projects/KDE on Solaris/OpenSolaris/Korona

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    What is Korona?

    Korona is a live DVD that makes it easy to peek at the current state of porting KDE4 to OpenSolaris. It's created by adding the packages of the KDE-Solaris project on top of a regular OpenSolaris image. Apart from setting KDE as default, there are no other customizations.

    Download

    ISOs are posted regularly at genunix.org

    Can I install Korona and use it in production environment?

    Please don't :-)
    Korona is not really a distribution. It's meant to be a test-drive thing.
    If Korona is not stable enough for you, then have a look at Belenix.
    If you like Korona, you may be better off installing regular OpenSolaris and installing KDE from the KDE-Solaris IPS repository (check the forum for latest news).

    So what works and what's broken?

    See the Status page.

    I want to join the developers/build my own KDE packages

    A step by step guide is available.

    Contact

    There is a forum. Developers hang out at the #kde4-solaris IRC channel of Freenode.

    News

    Korona 4.3.95
    Comes with KDE 4.4 RC2. Includes the VirtualBox Additions to improve the performance in VM.
    The kde-solaris project has got a bugzilla at opensolaris.org now. It should focus on issues specific to our builds, we do not intend to duplicate the upstream bugzilla.


    List of fixes and improvements:
    Font antialiasing now works by default.
    Crashes of several KDEgames were fixed.
    Crashes of several KDEedu apps were fixed.
    Crashes of some akonadi apps were fixed.
    Desktop globe wallpaper is enabled in KDEplasma-addons
    KDE crash on a system with VirtualBox additions was fixed.
    LZMA support.was added
    KMix is now included.
    scim support in KDEplasma-addons

    List of new issues:
    network-admin icon is invisible since 4.4 RC1
    System Activity dialog is empty
    Autologin does not work - this is a problem in OpenSolaris.

    Korona 4.3.80
    Brings you KDE 4.4.beta 1. Only KDEedu and KDEplasma-addons are missing due to unresolved build issues. The following issues are fixed: "dolphin crashes"

    Korona 4.3.1
    It comes with new version numbering scheme ;-), the version now matches the KDE version, this means that now it ships with KDE 4.3.1
    Now also kdebindings, kdepim-runtime, kdeplasma-addons and qtcreator are included.
    A Qt benchmark qgears is included.
    KDEl10n packages were dropped to make the iso smaller.
    The following issues are fixed: "Konqueror crashes when launched via Run Command", "Kinfocenter crashes", "nwam-manager is spawned multiple times", "Right-click on Icon Settings kills plasma"
    The following either new or previously untracked issues were identified: "Akonadi seems misconfigured", "Several games crash", "Some edu apps crash", "krunner crashes", "akonadi_nepomuk_email_feeder crashes", "QtCreator requires LD_LIBRARY_PATH to start correctly", "Annoying mouse bug"