How To： Run KDE Softwares On Windows

KDE is one of the most popular desktop environment used in Linux, its community has developed a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment.

The KDE on Windows Initiative is an ongoing project to port the KDE applications to MS Windows. You can KDE softwares in a normal KDE environment by KDE-Installer, a graphical network-based installer.

• Download the installer http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/installer/kdewin-installer-gui-latest.exe

Installation Instructions

The installation is rather easy, for average users, just use the default selections. Make sure Internet connection is enabled.

choose the KDE4 installation directory

choose the download path

choose the sever closest to you

here shows releases, choose the latest stable 4.5.4

this step is the most important, choose the apps you wanna try, select all is recommended ;)  they support for multi-languages

Now, you can run KDE softwares just from your start menu :)

Find more at http://windows.kde.org/

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