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+title: "Kate on all Platforms - 2024"
+date: 2024-04-14T19:25:00+02:00
+draft: false
+categories: [kde]
+tags: [kde]
+url: /posts/kate-on-all-platforms-2024/
+author: "Christoph Cullmann"
+---
+
+## Unix like systems with X11 or Wayland
+
+All Unix like systems with either X11 or Wayland are well supported since ever.
+
+Linux with X11 and now Wayland is for a long time the primary system on that Kate work happens.
+
+Over the years it was (like most of the KDE applications) ported to the most BSD variants.
+
+Be it some mainstream Linux distribution like Fedora or a niche one like NixOS, Kate is available as binary package.
+You love BSD?
+FreeBSD or OpenBSD, you can get a Kate package via your normal package system.
+
+And in the normal case, you can just build it from source on your own, all needed patches should be in our repositories upstream.
+If that is not the case for your system, please help to upstream them.
+
+Below the current state of the master branch compiled on NixOS unstable with Wayland.
+
+<center><a href="/posts/kate-on-all-platforms-2024/images/2024-kate-linux-wayland.png" target="_blank"><img width=700 src="/posts/kate-on-all-platforms-2024/images/2024-kate-linux-wayland-small.png"></a></center>
+
+## Windows
+
+Since several years there are activities in the KDE community to provide our libraries and applications for Windows.
+
+Even if that is a non-free platform, we can reach out to new users and developers that might later be then even interested to switch a full open platform.
+
+Progress is slow, but steady.
+We have some applications in the official Windows Store (including Kate) and nightly build for more of them.
+With reasonable effort you can develop Kate on Windows with Craft.
+
+Below the current state of the master branch running on Windows 11 inside VirtualBox.
+
+<center><a href="/posts/kate-on-all-platforms-2024/images/2024-kate-windows.png" target="_blank"><img width=700 src="/posts/kate-on-all-platforms-2024/images/2024-kate-windows-small.png"></a></center>
+
+## macOS
+
+Beside Windows, the major other non-free platform Kate tries to support is macOS.
+
+We have nighly build available for that and you can, like on Windows, develop Kate with the help of Craft.
+
+Below the current state of the master branch running native on my M2 ARM Mac Mini.
+
+<center><a href="/posts/kate-on-all-platforms-2024/images/2024-kate-macos.png" target="_blank"><img width=700 src="/posts/kate-on-all-platforms-2024/images/2024-kate-macos-small.png"></a></center>
+
+## Others
+
+Naturally there are more operating systems out there then mentioned above.
+
+Beside the mobile ones like Android and iOS that are not that interesting for Kate, many other small open desktop operating systems exist.
+
+Even if the Kate team itself doesn't put active work it them, that doesn't mean Kate can't run there.
+
+Without any active work on our side, for example a Kate port for Haiku was done.
+Some one-liner patches for that got even upstreamed.
+
+If you work on some port of our stuff and need to upstream stuff, please contact us.
+Even if you work on a non-mainstream system, as long as the patches are not too intrusive, we are interested to have them.
+
+## Help us!
+
+Naturally the most of our developers are working on the Linux or some BSD.
+
+That means the other systems are always in need of more people to help out, both on the programming and testing side.
+
+For Kate, testing should be easy, grab a nighly build for Windows or macOS for example.