Re: Kde 1 or 2 on NetBSd 5.x

[Larry Stotler <larrystotler%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:21 AM, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> The last version of qt2 looks to be 2.3.2 (
> http://ftp.vim.org/languages/qt/archive/qt/2/ ). It would be possible
> to exhume the old pkgsrc entry, and update it, but you are going to
> run into issues such as not building against the latest png due the
> API having completely changed. Patching qt2 and kde2 to use the new
> APIs would be possible, but quite a large undertaking, that is
> assuming the code will build with a modern C++ compiler. You mention
> Trinity above so you know some people cared enough about kde3 to fork
> and maintain it, its a shame no-one did that for kde2 :)

I didn't find KDE3 to be that much different from KDE2.  KDE4 was a
nightmare & I have avoided it like the plague.

> What *might* work would be to checkout the last version of pkgsrc
> which contained qt2 (looks to be 2008-09-16) and then build kde2 from
> it, I'm ignoring the security issues as I'm assuming you would keep
> things nicely sandboxed.

Security issues don't concern me that much with the Z50(no idea how
vulnerable Windows CE 2.11 is either).  It will only connect to my
home network(which has a dd-wrt router connected to the net).  I would
even be willing to go back to that era NetBSD version if needed.  The
last stable release of KDE2 was 21 November 2001.  I'm not really sure
that there were any useful or needed updates for the Z50 hardware(will
have to look at the release notes).  Lack of any real Linux support
for the Z50 is what sent me to NetBSD.  I've installed NetBSD before
but kinda got lost & gave up.  Now I've got a really good reason to
tackle it head on and add it to my skillset.

> Once you have it working on x86 then try the build on the z50, or a
> mips based emulator on a fast x86 box...

I also happen to have 2 Cobalt RaQ2 machines.  While they aren't much
faster than the Z50(250Mhz vs 141Mhz), I can up the RAM in them to
256MB.  Using them to compile for the Z50 would make them useful since
I have never found any real use for them in the couple years I have
had them.