A VMware Player image of KDE 3.5.4 with KOffice 1.5.2 that runs on SUSE Linux 10.1 has been made available by the KDE Developers: "A VMware Player image of KDE 3.5.4 with KOffice 1.5.2 running on SUSE Linux 10.1 is now available. The image is fully functional and can be upgraded and tweaked as needed. The VMware Player necessary to run it can be downloaded for free and is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux."

About VMware Player:
VMware Player is a free software that can easily be installed on the PC and can be used by anyone to run a virtual machine shared by a colleague or friend. For example, customer support and development teams can share a customer scenario encapsulated within a virtual machine, exactly like the one we are presenting here.

VMware Player is ideal for safely evaluating pre-built application environments, beta software, or other software distributed in virtual machines. With VMware Player, anyone can easily experience the benefits of preconfigured products rapidly without any installation or configuration hassles.

About KDE Project:
KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system. KDE is a network transparent contemporary desktop environment for UNIX workstations. KDE seeks to fill the need for an easy to use desktop for Unix workstations, similar to the desktop environments found under the MacOS or Microsoft Windows.

To run this virtual image it is necessary to have 2.5GB HDD space for archive download, uncompressing and running,
and more than 256MB memory for running host OS, VMware Player and virtual machine.

You can download the compressed images (tar.bz2 or zip) here.

You need to decompress the archive and open the .vmx file with VMware Player. The virtual machine will start to boot and the "guest" user will be logged in automatically to the KDE 3.5.4 desktop.

The password for the "guest" user is "guest", for the "root" administrator the password is "toor". As "root" you can start the "YaST" system configuration, add users and install more applications of KDE 3.5.4 and SUSE Linux 10.1. The installation sources for both are preconfigured.