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categories:
- Linux
- openSUSE
- KDE
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date: "2016-06-25T14:11:01Z"
tags:
- Linux
- KDE
- openSUSE
title: Two in one
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---

As you may know (unless you've been living in Alpha Centauri for the past century) the openSUSE community KDE team publishes [LiveCD images](https://www.dennogumi.org/2016/02/where-are-my-noble-gases-i-need-more-noble-gases/) for those willing to test the latest state of KDE software from the git master branches without having to break machines, causing a zombie apocalypse and so on. This post highlights the most recent developments in the area.

Up to now, we had 3 different media, depending on the base distribution (stable Leap, ever-rolling Tumbleweed) and whether you wanted to go with the safe road (X11 session) or the dangerous path (Wayland):

- Argon (Leap based)
- Krypton (Tumbleweed based, X11)
- Krypton Wayland (Tumbleweed based, Wayland)

So far we've been trying to build new images in sync with the updates to the [Unstable KDE software repositories](https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:KDE_repositories#Unstable_Frameworks.2C_Plasma_and_Applications). With the recent [switch to being Qt 5.7 based](https://plus.google.com/107083440433055844575/posts/D2tTMRxEzhk), they broke. That's when Fabian Vogt stepped up and fixed a number of outstanding issues with the images as well.

But that wasn't enough. It was clear that perhaps a separate image for Wayland wasn't required (after all, you could always start a session from SDDM). So, perhaps it was the time to merge the two...

Therefore, from today, the Krypton image will contain **both** the X11 session and the Wayland session. You can select which session to use from the SDDM screen. Bear in mind that if you use a virtual machine like QEMU, you may not be able to start Wayland from SDDM due to [this bug](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364740).

Download links:

- [Argon (x86_64 only)](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Medias/images/iso/?P=openSUSE_Argon.x86_64*.iso)
- <s>Krypton (i686)</s> (Currently not available)
- [Krypton (x86_64)](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Medias/images/iso/?P=openSUSE_Krypton.x86_64*.iso)

Should you want to use these live images, remember  [where to report distro bugs](https://bugzilla.opensuse.org) and where to [report issues in the software](https://bugs.kde.org). Have a lot of fun!
