If you have been wondering about KDE 4.5.0 and Synergy Linux then this email is for you.
As of now I have released one of my nightlies as a Pre Beta Release. It should be a lot better than my last Alpha release (unless you have a Nvidia Card) and has now been tested on multiple machines in multiple environments.
Qemu
Virtual Box
EeePC 70x
MSI Wind (ATI 780G Chipset)
This release still has it’s issues why I’m releasing it as Pre Beta:
Known Issues:
1. Won’t boot with FX5200Go Nvidia Card, Tries to use the Nouvea driver and it segfaults
– This most likely will effect multiple Nvidia Cards but please still test I would like to know if your card works or not.
2. Synergy Installer is not included (but Unity Installer is and installs fine)
3. Has some what of an Identity Crisis with some themes and Artwork
Some Good Stuff:
Memory consumption on my EeePC is only at 145M, Yay!
KDE 4.5.0 Seems stable and previous issues (System Tray, Bug #222) are fixed
Comes with:
Kernel 2.6.33.6
KDE 4.5.0
Bangarang – A multimedia player that _can_ use Nepomuk (disabled by default) to manage multimedia.
Rekonq – A KDE WebKit Based Browser
This Special release is codenamed “Identity Crisis”. Because it has some Unity Artwork in it still that I haven’t removed. I had to rebuild multiple packages after I had a hard drive fail and some of them I didn’t go back and replace the artwork. So if you didn’t like the previous KDE 4 theme Called Touvrea Castle (aka Symply Synergy) then you’ll have the KDE defaults that might look better too you. If you can donate your time to customize KDE and create themes I am more than willing to accept your entries as a possibility to have it as Synergy’s Default KDE theme.
Disclaimer:
Because this is just a test release it only comes in 32Bit. Building a 32Bit ISO is the trickiest (for me on a 64bit host) I know if I am able to get a 32Bit release out then the 64Bit Normally falls into place. Also a 32Bit ISO can run on both 64Bit and 32Bit Arch so I can cover more testers. The final release and near future beta releases will have both archs. Oh yeah and if this ISO kills your cat, dog, or baby dolphin then sorry, use at your own risk.
Download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/unity/isos/Synergy/test/
Yes it can be found on my own slow server, If you like torture:
http://www.synergy-linux.com/iso/test/