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KDE a los 30 años

¡KDE cumple los 30 este año!

Three decades of passionate community effort against all odds; delivering control, privacy, and freedom to our users; and tons and tons of software.

CHECK BACK OFTEN!

We will be updating this page frequently with new content, exciting 30th Anniversary news, things you can participate in, updated merch you can get, and much more!

Sigue leyendo y descubre datos interesantes que seguramente desconocías, nuevos productos que no sabías que necesitabas (¡aunque ahora sí!) y cómo también puedes ayudarnos a prosperar durante los próximos 30 años, y dónde y cómo puedes celebrar el cumpleaños de KDE.

Empecemos por ahí…

Plan your party🎉

Únete a un evento que tenga lugar cerca de ti. Si no hay ninguno, ¡organiza uno propio!

Whether it is a meetup over drinks, a nice meal with friends, an installfest, or a full conference, let us know what, where, and when you are celebrating KDE's birthday.

Incluiremos tu evento en nuestra lista para que aparezca en el siguiente mapa.


CÓMO PUEDES AÑADIR TU EVENTO: Visita nuestra página wiki y añade tu evento usando la plantilla.

Ayuda a KDE…

Most of our funds (70%!) come from private end users just like you. Become a Supporting Member and help ensure we receive a regular amount of money we can count on. This helps us plan and know what to expect for the next month, quarter, or year.

Usa el cuadro que hay al principio de esta página y selecciona Convertirse en miembro para convertirte en miembro de apoyo.

Or make a one-time donation and provide us with emergency funds to get us through the following year.

Usa el cuadro que hay al principio de esta página y selecciona Un único donativo al hacer tu aportación.

Por qué hacer un donativo

  • Producimos software de primera clase y tu donativo nos permite «seguir operando» y garantiza la sostenibilidad de nuestro software para las generaciones venideras.

  • Te mantenemos al mando y tu donativo permite que KDE siga siendo verdaderamente independiente.
  • Llegamos a las personas que la industria tecnológica ha dejado atrás y tu donativo contribuye a servir a aquellos que son ignorados por la industria, así como a incorporar a los usuarios marginados a la comunidad para que podamos hacer crecer el proyecto para todos.
  • Impulsamos la introducción del software libre en las instituciones públicas y tu donativo nos ayuda a adaptar nuestro software a las necesidades de las instituciones públicas, para que tus impuestos se destinen a financiar Software Libre y no a alguna gran corporación tecnológica.

Cómo usamos el dinero

Our goals are ambitious and we need funds to carry them out. We need:

  • una infraestructura sólida para desarrolladores, traductores y otros colaboradores
  • contratistas (comercializadores, organizadores de eventos, abogados, contables) para llevar a cabo tareas especializadas
  • para financiar los gastos de viaje de los colaboradores para que todos tengan la oportunidad de participar en la comunidad
  • para pagar la asistencia a eventos y para el material para los stands
  • para encargar arte gráfico y diseños
  • desarrollo dirigido.

… y salva el mundo.

KDE contribuye a limpiar el mundo y tú también puedes hacerlo.

KDE contributor Farid inspired us to take on the "30 for 30" challenge: for our 30th birthday, we are asking you to do something to help the environment and make the planet a nicer place to live in. Farid is planting 30 trees and we want you to come up with something similar.

Grábate a ti y a tu equipo llevando a cabo vuestra labor y promocionaremos vuestro proyecto en las redes sociales.

Aquí tienes algunas ideas más:

  • Rescata 30 computadoras (¡o más!) de acabar en un vertedero.
  • Reutiliza con creatividad 30 teléfonos con un sistema operativo móvil libre.
  • Limpia 30 hectáreas de bosque.
  • Convierte a 30 personas a un sistema operativo libre.
  • Lleva a juicio a 30 magnates tecnológicos para que dejen de construir centros de datos de IA.

KDE's history

KDE has had a long and exciting history. Here we present a brief summary of what has happened over the last few decades, but if you want to see all the details, visit our timeline website, which gets updated every time something important happens.

1995
Qt Created
In 1995, the Norwegian company Troll Tech created the cross-platform framework Qt, with which KDE would be created in the following year. Qt became the basis of the main KDE technologies in these 20 years. Learn more about Qt History.
Qt logo
1996
KDE Announced
In 1996, Matthias Ettrich announced the creation of Kool Desktop Environment (KDE), a graphical interface for Unix systems, built with Qt and C ++ and designed for the end user. The name "KDE" was a pun on the graphic environment CDE, which was proprietary at the time. Read the original announcement of the KDE Project.
Matthias Ettrich
1997
KDE One Conference Held in Arnsberg
In 1997, about 15 KDE developers met in Arnsberg, Germany, to work on the project and discuss its future. This event became known as KDE One.
Cornelius Schumacher's Archive
KDE e.V. Founded
In 1997, KDE e.V., the nonprofit that represents the KDE community financially and legally, was founded in Tübingen, Germany.
KDE e.V. logo
1998
KDE 1 Released
KDE released the first stable version of its graphical environment in 1998, with highlights as an application development framework, the KOM/OpenParts, and a preview of its office suite.
KDE 1
1999
Konqi Adopted
In April 1999, a dragon is announced as the new animated assistant to the KDE Help Center. It was so charming that it replaced the previous project mascot, Kandalf, from version 3.x on. See the KDE 2 Screenshot showing Konqi and Kandalf.
Konqi
2000
KDE 2 Released
KDE released its second version, featuring as main news Konqueror web browser and file manager; and the office suite KOffice. KDE had its code almost entirely rewritten for this second version.
KDE 2
2002
KDE 3 Released
KDE released its third version, showing as important additions a new print framework, KDEPrint; the translation of the project for 50 languages; and a package of educational applications, maintained by the KDE Edutainment Project.
KDE 3
2008
KDE 4 Released
In 2008, the community announced the revolutionary KDE 4. In addition to the visual impact of the new default theme, Oxygen, and the new desktop interface, Plasma; KDE 4 also innovated by presenting the following applications: the PDF reader Okular, the Dolphin file manager, as well as KWin, supporting graphics effects. See KDE 4.0 Visual Guide.
KDE 4.0
2009
1 Million Commits Reached
The community reached the mark of 1 million of commits. From 500,000 in January 2006 and 750,000 in December 2007, only 19 months later, contributions reached the 1 million mark. The increase in these contributions coincides with the launch of innovative KDE 4.
Active contributors at the time
2014
Plasma 5 Released
Release of the first stable version of Plasma 5. This new generation of Plasma has a new theme, Breeze. Changes include a migration to a new, fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack centered around an OpenGL(ES) scenegraph. This version of Plasma uses as base the Qt 5 and Frameworks 5.
Plasma 5 screenshot
Plasma Mobile Announced
The community announced Plasma Mobile, an interface for smartphones that uses Qt, Frameworks 5 and Plasma Shell technologies.
Plasma Mobile photo
2021
Valve Chooses KDE Plasma for Steam Deck
Valve, the creators of Steam, announced their portable gaming computer called Steam Deck has KDE Plasma as the default desktop experience. KDE developers have been working with Valve to make Plasma work well with Steam Deck.
KDE Plasma running on Steam Deck
2024
KDE Launches Plasma 6
With Plasma 6, our technology stack underwent two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of our application framework, Qt, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland. The launch was dubbed "MegaRelease", as new versions of KDE's apps and Frameworks, along with a new version of Plasma Mobile were all published at the same time.
The default Plasma 6 desktop environment.
2025
KDE Linux is born
KDE Linux is a free, open-source, user-focused operating system being built by KDE to include the best implementation of everything KDE has to offer, using the most advanced technologies.
Project Banana was the code name for KDE Linux.

KDE trivia

¿Sabías que…

… KDE ha ayudado a poner robots en Marte?

¡Lo hemos hecho! Y tenemos una evidencia gráfica para probarlo:

Screengrab from "Good Night Oppy" on Amazon Prime

That is from the documentary Good Night Oppy, about the Opportunity Mars rover. In the scene you can see a NASA engineer troubleshooting the rover while in flight towards Mars from a KDE 3 workstation.

You can watch Good Night Oppy on Amazon Prime.

Enviado por Paul Brown


… KDE ha creado el motor HTML que impulsa a la mayoría de los navegadores web?

¡Es cierto!

KDE's web engine was written back in 1998 - 1999 and was subsequently used as the basis for Apple's Webkit and Google's Blink engines. This means that most modern browsers, including Safari, Chrome, Chromium, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave, use KDE software at their core.

De hecho, si alguna vez revisas los registros de acceso de tu servidor web, verás «KHTML» en casi todas las líneas.

Y sí, la «K» de «KHTML» significa «KDE».

Enviado por Paul Brown


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