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The primary goals of the 2.1.1 release are to improve documentation and provide additional language translations for the user interface, although the release includes a few bugfixes, and improvements to the HTML rendering engine Read More

KDE Ships Leading Desktop with Advanced Web Browser for GNU/Linux and Other UNIXes. [...] This release marks a leap forward in GNU/Linux desktop stability, usability and maturity and is suitable for enterprise deployment. Read More

New Beta Version of Leading GNU/Linux Desktop Offers New Theme Manager, Image Viewer and IDE Read More

KDE 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

The 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

The 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

Final Release Candidate of Leading Desktop for Linux® and Other UNIXes® October 10, 2000 (The INTERNET). Read More

The 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

The 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 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