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KDE Live Images
Since Fedora 7 we release a LiveCD with the best packages from KDE. This LiveCD offers the great user experience in testing KDE on Fedora. And it also provides the option to install the LiveCD directly to your hard drive.
Current version
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Development
Fedora 8 is coming soon. In the past we have already had three test releases:
And the work is going on to release the final version
Comparison between GNOME and KDE
This is a short list of the gui applications on both livecds. We should try to offer equvalent functionality (or more than that) one the KDE-LiveCD. The comparison is based on Fedora 8 Test 2. The KDE applications in brackets weren't included in Test 2 but will maybe included in Test 3/Final.
| Application type | GNOME | KDE |
| Archive manager | file-roller | ark |
| Bittorrent | transmission | (ktorrent) |
| Burning Applications | nautilus, rhythmbox | k3b |
| Calculator | gnome-calculator | kcalc |
| CD Exractor | sound-juicer | kaudiocreator |
| CD-Player | gnome-cd | kscd |
| Clipboard manager | - | klipper |
| Data management | - | kexi |
| Desklets | - | superkaramba |
| Desktop effects | compiz | beryl |
| Desktop sharing | - | krfb |
| Dictionary | gnome-dictionary | - |
| Disk usage analyzer | baobab | filelight |
| Document viewer | evince | kpdf, kghostview kdvi |
| Download manager | - | kget |
| File browser | nautilus | konqueror |
| Games | gnome-games | kdegames |
| GnuPG-Frontend | - | kgpg |
| Image manipulation | gimp | (koffice-krita) |
| Image viewer | gthumb, eog | kuickshow, digikam, showfoto, kview |
| Instant Messenger | pidgin | kopete |
| IP Telephony | ekiga | twinkle |
| IRC-Chat | pidgin | konversation |
| Movie player | totem | kaffeine |
| Music player | rhythmbox | amarok |
| Networkmanager | NetworkManager | knetworkmanager |
| Newsreader | - | akregator |
| Notes | tomboy | knotes, kjots |
| Partitioning | gparted | gparted |
| Phone manager | gnome-phone-manager | kandy, kpilot |
| PIM | evolution | kontact |
| Power manager | gnome-power-manager | kpowersave |
| Presentation | - | kpresenter |
| Scanning utility | - | kooka |
| Spreadsheat | gnumeric | kspread |
| System log viewer | gnome-system-log | - |
| System Monitor | gnome-system-monitor | ksysguard |
| Terminal | gnome-terminal | konsole |
| Text editor | gedit | kwrite, kedit, kate |
| Time tracking & Alarm | - | karm, kalarm, ktimer |
| Usenet | - | knode |
| Webbrowser | firefox | konqueror |
| Word processor | abiword | koffice-kword |