KDE 2.1-beta2 Release Announcement
Wednesday, 31 January 2001New Beta Version of Leading GNU/Linux Desktop Offers New Theme Manager, Image Viewer and IDE Read More
KDE 2.1-beta1 Release Announcement
Saturday, 16 December 2000KDE 2.1 will be the second major release of the KDE 2 series, the next generation of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. Read More
KDE 2.0.1 Release Announcement
Tuesday, 5 December 2000The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 2.0.1, KDE's powerful, modular, Internet-enabled desktop. KDE 2.0.1 is a translation, documentation and bug-fix release and follows six weeks after the release of KDE 2.0 Read More
KDE 2.0 Release Announcement
Monday, 23 October 2000The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 2.0, KDE's powerful, modular, Internet-enabled desktop. This highly anticipated release constitutes the next generation of the award-winning KDE 1 series, which culminated in the release of KDE 1.1.2 just over a year ago. KDE 2.0 is the work product of hundreds of dedicated developers originating from over 30 countries. Read More
KDE 2.0 Release Announcement
Tuesday, 10 October 2000Final Release Candidate of Leading Desktop for Linux® and Other UNIXes® October 10, 2000 (The INTERNET). The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 2.0 RC2, the second and (barring any unforeseen problems) final release candidate for Kopernicus (KDE 2.0), KDE's next-generation, powerful, modular desktop. The KDE team has previously released five Beta versions -- the first on May 10 of this year -- publicly; the sole prior release candidate was released internally only. RC2 is based on Trolltech'stm Qt® 2.2.1 and includes 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. This release marks the last opportunity for developers and users to report problems prior to the official release of Kopernicus (KDE 2.0) slated for this October 23.
Read MoreLinux Congress Documentation and Localization Workshop
Monday, 2 October 2000The first meeting of KDE translation and documentation teams has been a success. (...) This success demonstrates that there are strong energies willing to bring Unix Operating Systems and Free Software to the citizen with a documented, easy-to-use graphical interface, in their own language. This is an approach that proprietary operating systems are unable to sustain consistently. Now that computers have come to everyday life, this is putting a threat on cultural independance of many countries with respect to American language. On the contrary, all the people attending the workshop are committed to making computers - even using powerful Operating Systems like GNU/Linux - more easy to use for everyone. Read More
KDE 1.94 Release Announcement
Friday, 15 September 2000The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 1.94, the fifth and final beta preview of KDE 2.0, KDE's next-generation, powerful, modular desktop. Following the release of KDE 1.93 on August 23, 2000, the release, code-named "Kandidat", is based on Trolltech's Qt 2.2.0 and will include the core KDE libraries, the core desktop environment, the KOffice suite, as well as the over 100 applications from the other core KDE packages: Administration, Games, Graphics, Multimedia, Network, Personal Information Management (PIM), Toys and Utilities. The release is targeted at users who would like to help the KDE team make usability, speed and feature enhancements and fix the remaining set of bugs before the release of KDE 2.0, scheduled for early-fourth quarter 2000. Read More
KDE Official Response to Stallman Editorial
Tuesday, 5 September 2000KDE 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. Read More
KDE Official Response to GNOME Foundation
Thursday, 31 August 2000The 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 Read More
KDE 1.93 Release Announcement
Wednesday, 23 August 2000Fourth 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'stm 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.
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