Comments on: Tip: Run KDE Konqueror natively from Windows in three easy steps

By: Abel Braaksma

Abel Braaksma — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:27:50 +0000

See the text in the last paragraph: your firewall is giving you problems.

Suppose you’d want to run Windows Media Player on Linux: you’d have to “download” a Windows VM image of 2.5GB. Same story. Remember that you’re trying to run something of another operation system and that you’re basically downloading all its functionality. 500mb is a small price then.

By: yeah

yeah — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:41:06 +0000

sadly I am getting the “could not launch…” error
just to run one web browser I need to d/l 500mo and it’s not even working

By: fyanardi

fyanardi — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:16:09 +0000

Hello Abel, from technical point of view, yes they are different. As far as I know, andLinux still uses Windows version of Linux kernel and X server.

KDE for Windows is entirely different project, aims at porting all KDE 4 applications to Windows natively. They do it by recompiling the apps as Windows binary. So you don’t need a Linux + X environment anymore. KDE applications just run natively on your Windows, like any other Windows applications.

But andLinux is also a very cool and amazing project.

By: Abel Braaksma

Abel Braaksma — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:57:47 +0000

That’s interesting, but isn’t that the same as what I’m doing now? Running andLinux gives me all KDE apps right from the taskbar with one click. I only wanted Konqueror, but got everything.

Is your implementation radically different, i.e., not based on coLinux?

By: fyanardi

fyanardi — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:27:57 +0000

“The problem with Konqueror is, there’s no direct port for Windows.”

There was not, but now there is. windows.kde.org is the answer. It provides native (yes, native) binary for KDE apps for Windows (like Konqueror, dolphin, KOffice). You can test the current stable (4.3) or the trunk (soon to be 4.4). It is currently in alpha / beta stage, but from my experiences, it works quite well.

Now KDE is available on all major platforms natively: Windows, Mac OS X, Unix (including Linux).

By: EdenMar

EdenMar — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:43:50 +0000

Thanks! I see Konqueror is listed in Synaptic on Portable Ubuntu Remix, so I’ll see if I can get it loaded. I don’t think I got an E-mail from your response (should I have?) so I’ll make a note of the Twitter link.

By: Abel Braaksma

Abel Braaksma — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:15:51 +0000

I don't have a spare ready (well, I do, but not one that I can experiment with), but I can try installing it on one of my vmware Windows servers. Note that this article is primarily on making it easy to use Konqueror from Windows. I know that you can do a lot more then that. I see that your Portable Ubuntu is based on coLinux as well and that you use the same "run Linux application from Windows as a normal application", so it'd be fair to make a comparison indeed. It'll take a bit of time to setup the vmware though, I'll give you a ping when I update things (or follow me (Kandura) on twitter, I'll notify updates there).

By: EdenMar

EdenMar — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:11:44 +0000

Do you have another MS Windows system available, where you could install Portable Ubuntu Remix, and give us a report?
http://portableubuntu.demonccc.com.ar/

A comparison article giving similarities and differences between ‘andLinux’ and ‘PUbuntu Remix’ would be of great interest. Try the latest releases of Remix version 2.0 (listed as DOS, for TWO), trying both the ‘Lite’ and full-size installs.

Check not only installation and operation, but also the uninstallation, and condition and operability of of MS Windows, at that point. I am, of course, especially thinking about the condition of the Registry.