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KDE Official Response to Stallman Editorial

KDE Response to Stallman Editorial In a recent editorial on Linux Today, Richard Stallman claimed that KDE is still in violation of the GPL even though Qt is now covered under the GPL and all KDE code is compatible with the GPL. His rather absurd reasoning is that since KDE once violated the GPL, it will always be in violation unless the individual copyright holders "grant forgiveness. Mehr dazu

KDE Official Response to GNOME Foundation

The recent announcements regarding the formation of a GNOME Foundation coupled with the Sun/Hewlett Packard decision to use GNOME as their standard desktop has resulted in a deluge of requests to the KDE Core Team asking what our "position" is. Well, this is it. We offer this position paper in the hope that we can put this behind us and get back to coding Mehr dazu

KDE 1.93 Release Announcement

Fourth Beta Preview of Leading Desktop for Linux^® and Other UNIXes^® August 23, 2000 (The INTERNET). The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 1.93, the fourth beta preview of Kopernicus, KDE's next-generation, powerful, modular desktop. Following on the heels of the release of KDE 1.92 on July 27, 2000, the release, code-named "Kooldown", is based on a beta of Trolltech's^tm upcoming Qt^® 2.2.0 and will include the core libraries, the core desktop environment, the KOffice suite, as well as the over 100 applications from the other standard base KDE packages: Administration, Games, Graphics, Multimedia, Network, Personal Information Management (PIM), Toys and Utilities. Kooldown is targeted at users who would like to help the KDE team make usability and feature enhancements and fix the remaining set of bugs before the release of KDE 2.0 ("Kopernicus"), scheduled for early-fourth quarter 2000.

KDE Desktop Is Show Favorite at LinuxWorld Expo

August 22, 2000 (The INTERNET). KDE, the most advanced and user-friendly desktop for GNU/Linux - UNIX operating systems, was honored as Show Favorite in the Desktop category at the LinuxWorld Expo, held in San Jose, California last week. Mehr dazu

KDE 2 Launch Pad

In a modest attempt to assist new users as well as devoted supporters, the developers of KDE Team prepared a series of documents presenting the most interesting technologies and the most important improvements that the KDE code acquired. Mehr dazu

KDE 1.92 Release Announcement

Third Beta Preview of Leading Desktop for Linux^® and Other Unixes^® July 25, 2000 (The INTERNET). The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 1.92, codenamed "Korner", the third beta preview of KDE's next-generation, powerful, modular desktop. Following on the heels of the release of KDE 1.91 (Kleopatra) on June 24, 2000, Korner is based on a snapshot of Trolltech's^tm upcoming Qt^® 2.2.0 and will include the core libraries, the core desktop environment, the KOffice suite, as well as the over 100 applications from the other standard base KDE packages: Administration, Games, Graphics, Multimedia, Network, Personal Information Management (PIM), Toys and Utilities. Korner is targeted at users who would like to help the KDE team make usability and feature enhancements and fix the remaining set of bugs before the release of KDE 2.0, scheduled for early September 2000.

KDE 1.91 Release Announcement

Second Beta Preview of Advanced Linux^® Desktop June 14, 2000 (The Internet). The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 1.91, codenamed "Kleopatra", the second beta preview of KDE's next-generation, powerful, modular desktop. Following on the heels of the release of KDE 1.90 (Konfucious) on May 11, 2000, Kleopatra is based on Qt 2.1 and will include the core libraries, the core desktop environment, the KOffice suite, as well as most of the other standard base KDE packages: kdeadmin, kdegames, kdegraphics, kdenetwork, kdemultimedia, kdetoys and kdeutils. Kleopatra is targeted at developers and interested users. For those compiling from source, please consult the compilation instructions. "Kleopatra fixes many of the bugs which helpful users reported in Konfucious, the previous release," stated David Faure, a core KDE developer. "The core libraries are now frozen except for critical changes, so developers of KDE 1 applications can now safely port to KDE 2 without fearing any major changes in the core libraries." For the developer, KDE 1.91 provides a stable API which will enable developers to commence serious development of their application so they may time the release of their software to coincide with the release of KDE 2.0, scheduled for September 2000. It is anticipated that with the exception of aRts, the budding KDE 2.0 real time multimedia engine, and the KDE style engine, there will be few binary incompatible and fewer, if any, source incompatible changes in the core libraries through the 2.0 release. Further development will focus on finalizing aRts, fixing bugs, complying with the KDE Standards and Style Guides and maximizing performance. Kleopatra offers a large number of major technological improvements to developers compared to the critically acclaimed KDE 1.x series. Chief among these are the Desktop COmmunication Protocol (DCOP), the i/o libraries (KIO), the component object model (KParts), an XML-based GUI class, and the standards-compliant HTML rendering engine (KHTML).

KDE 1.90 Release Announcement

KDE Desktop Available for Linux^®

Beta Preview of Advanced Linux^® Desktop May 11, 2000 (world, Internet). The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 1.90, codenamed "Konfucious", a beta preview of KDE's next-generation, powerful, modular desktop. Following on the heels of the release of KDE 1.89 (Krash) in December 1999, Konfucious is based on Qt 2.1 and will include the core libraries, the core desktop environment, the KOffice suite, as well as most of the other standard base KDE packages: kdegames, kdenetwork, kdetoys and kdeutils. Konfucious is targeted at developers and interested users. For those compiling from source, please consult the compilation instructions.

SourceForge hosts KDE CVS

KDE and VA Linux announced at the recent Linux World Expo that the KDE development system (our CVS) will be hosted by VA Linux with their SourceForge setup. SourceForge is a Open Source project hosting site located at http://www.sourceforge.net Mehr dazu

KDE 1.89 Release Announcement

Gearing Towards 2nd Generation Desktop Environment

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) Team is happy to announce KRASH, an unstable developers release of the upcoming KDE 2.0 Desktop Environment.