Available here are my KDE 3.5.x and Trinity packages compiled for Mandriva 2010.0 and later. The packages are provided as-is and they haven't all been tested. If you find a problem let me know and i'll see what I can do. (Please note the URL's for the 2010.0 packages changed as of May 17th 2010)
Since KDE 3.5 is no longer maintained by kde.org, there won't be any updates to the core packages unless a packaging problem is found, so this is not tagged as an update medium. However, you may want to manually update the repository from time to time to pick up additional packages.
I'm hoping that these packages can be incorporated into the official contrib archives, if this happens then this download site will be removed in favour of the official archive.
If these packages prove to be too popular then they may have to move to a new download site, if this happens, an announcement will be placed here and on the Mandriva forums. If you intend to use these packages on a large number of computers in a single organisation, please create your own local mirror.
The Trinity KDE project aims to revive and support the KDE 3.5 branch of KDE and will be used for all future packages.
I want to make it clear that I believe KDE 4 has great potential and would like to thank the KDE team for all the hard work that they have put into KDE 4. However, as a desktop for day to day use, KDE 4 simply isn't ready. Simple features I like are missing and the performance on my own computers is very poor compared to KDE 3. KDE 4 is still a 'beta quality' desktop at best and as such, support for KDE 3 has been dropped far too early. Therefore I am prepared to put my money (and time) where my mouth is and do the necessary work to ensure a working KDE 3 desktop is available for my favourite distro.