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Happy Birthday
by hoju on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @15:31
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My I be the first to say happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KDE!!!
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Congrats.
by acm on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @15:37
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...and may I be the second. Happy birthday KDE! Apparently you share the same birthday as <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/14/2024232&mode=nested">OpenOffice</a>, although OpenOffice is only 1 year old.
Keep up the good work KDE developers, its most appreciated.
acm
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Congratulation!
by Thorsten Schnebeck on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @15:43
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(OK, 43 minutes too late ;-)
Five years?! Really?! Never realised that it was such a long time.
But many things changed: I remember, when I installed my first 0.4 binary sometime in '97 (you know: Kalles famous c't-article): What a difference between this and fvwm95. This was the first thing I installed alone. I was used to _work_ with SunOS und Linux but installation-things??
These days I started learning Linux. My programming skills were not good enough to help the project - I was one of these silent users. Today I know much more about Linux and KDE. I try to help and try to promote KDE-Linux.
So:
Happy Birthday, KDE!
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Kool :) but...
by Asif Ali Rizwaan on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @16:47
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Why KDE is not referred as Kool Desktop Environment, even when It's name was chosen by Matthias E.? I find is very stupid in the tip of the day that "K" in "KDE" stands for nothing! Let me correct it, it stands for "Kool" (cool), the first posting of M.E. has the title "New Project: Kool Desktop Environment (KDE)".
Happy Birthday to KDE and every one cheers! BTW I like the new slogan "KDE 3.0: ready for the Desktop". I appreciate KDE teams' hard work and dedication. Thank you!
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Happy Birthday
by Timothy R. Butler on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @17:58
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Haaapppyyyy Birthday to Yoooou, Haaaapppyyy Birthday to Yooou, Haaapppyyy Birthday Dear KDE, Haaapppyyy Birthday to Yooooou. And many mooooooore! :-D
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Pictures of the celebrations!
by Rob Kaper on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @18:35
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A couple of dutch KDE developers including yours truly decided to celebrate this big day together. It wouldn't be a true KDE event without my digital camera, so here's an impression. Enjoy!
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All good wishes to you....
by Frank Seidel on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @20:15
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Congratulations!!! Happy Birthday, KDE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You changed my live to the better side... !!!!
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Happy Birthday, but...
by Jens Moller on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @21:09
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I use KDE on most of my Linux systems (including my Dell Laptop). Its great, however, its hard to figure out how to do an upgrade - The install information points me all over the place and what worked for a previous update doesn't seem to work for newer updates. I use KDE almost everyday and have for the last 2 1/2 years. I really like it and want to keep it current. Help me do that!
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KDE 1.92
by Charles Samuels on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @21:14
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attached is a screenshot of an early pre-2.0 release. :)
snapshot4.png
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GNOME.....
by a guy who likes GNOME on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @21:18
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.... is still better
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grow up to Mac OS X
by Rene on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @22:01
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I love KDE! A pity nobody has succeeded yet in porting it to Mac OS X... Therefor, I 'have to' run windowmaker now...
Congratulations KDE, and I hope you may grow up to Mac OS X desktops (and later perhaps even the majority of Windows desktops?)
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Re: Happy Birthday, KDE!
by Whitehawk Stormchaser on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @22:57
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Five years already? Whoa! Who's got the cake?
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Happy birthday
by Sander on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @23:17
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Only 5 years and already this good. That is amazing !
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Happy Birthday!!
by Anonymous Coward on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @00:35
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To KDE!!
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wouweeee .. 5 (in words f i v e) years ?
by Thomas on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @00:53
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Irre.... crazy, in 5 years it has come so far.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY KDE !
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Cheerz!
by Divine on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @00:54
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congratulation to all the coders, designers, developers and their girlfriends! lotsa great work, guyz! Keep it going, and windoze is gonna be history soon
but please, please please... it's so unfriendly to install/upgrade...
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To the next five years!
by Uwe Thiem on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @00:54
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I've missed that original posting because there wasn't a usable news feed here in Namibia. I remember discussing LyX with a friend in Austria in the begin of 1997 by email and then he mentioned that Matthias started another project: KDE. I wasn't much impressed at first but after going to www.kde.org and downloading KDE (note: compiled it on a 486-66 with 16MB) I tried it out and was hooked immediately. It completely changed my view of X programming. I had tried it a coupla times before but always gave up on it. Now, with KDE and Qt, it was so easy to write applications with a pretty GUI. Thanks to TT and the handful of original KDE developers who took this up!
To the next 5 years of KDE development after which, I guess, this beast will no only be able to notify me when my tea is ready but to make the tea.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
by gunnar on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @01:51
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i am so impressed by the great kde-community. you are so great.
i love kde and i am using it every day as my default method, handling my machine :-)
and...of course... i am using kde in my trainings as well.
so keep up the goog work.
- gunnar
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We love you!
by mofo on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @05:22
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Just wanted to say that everyone in my office loves KDE! Not to do any gnome bashing, but you guys are far, far ahead of the game.
We wish you all the best of luck!
Happy well deserved birthday KDE!
-mofo
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Great Job!!!
by Alex on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @07:33
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I'm your fan.
Thanks a lot.
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Gnotices
by AC on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @08:09
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They even congratulate KDE on the Gnotices web page. I think this is great as it shows that the people really involved with these two desktop projects are much more mature than the trolls on both sides. Very honorable move, Gnotices!
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Happy birthday....now just
by Jeremy on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @10:33
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All KDE needs to do now is to slow it a bit, or perhaps do it like th linux kerneland have a bunch that maintainsa branch to get it a bug free as possible. then new features can be added in the experimental tree and when it is released, move into a temporary bug crushing mode, once it has gotten pretty stable move to the next experimental and give old branch into maintanence.....the old way has definatly given KDE all it has but it has also made it buggy. I think that the move could be done after 3.0 and all you would need is to give the maintanence to one person on each subproject.
good job anyway guys, we just need it more stable.
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congratulations...
by Jamin P. Gray on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @10:53
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I cheer for all free software projects. Here's to another five years and the opportunity for more cooperation between the GNOME and KDE projects.
jamin p. gray
Fifth Toe Coordinator, GNOME 2 Release Team
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You made Linux possible for this newbie.
by Bob Buick on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @12:32
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I looked at Red Hat Linux several years ago, but it was too hard for this newbie. Then I heard of KDE, but Red Hat had religion and didn't support it, so Linux was still a hard option. When I discovered Mandrake, with KDE included, all of my Christmasses had come at once and I've loved Mandrake with KDE ever since.
I can't thank all of the good people involved in these projects enough. They're making great history.
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Congratulations!! Great Job guys!
by Trevor on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @12:43
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KDE is my desktop of choice!!
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Congratulations!
by Androgynous Howard on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @12:46
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Hi,
it's obvious that KDE has come a long way in those five years. I have got a debian box with KDE, and recently I noticed that my only browser is konqueror!
A few years ago this would not have been possible, since you always had to have netscape 4.7 available just in case something did not work. But now I do not need another browser anymore. It is great that I do not have to rely on bloated motif or ugly xforms or athena widget library applications.
The only thing I am missing is klyx. I really loved it in kde 1.*, but now there is no up-to-date version available. The current version of lyx still uses xforms, and it is so ugly that I just can't bear it...
I understand that lyx will be toolkit-independent soon, but since kde will soon be a defacto standard one wonders wether this is really nessecary.
What I would like to see for the future: I would *love* to see KDE and Qt move to a platform-independent binary format so that you could have a binary of a KDE application for all platforms supported by KDE. It does not have to be C#, but I think it might be a good idea to move to some kind of virtual machine execution. This does not mean big performance losses, and it would make distributing, installing and upgrading kde applications so much more convenient.
regards and keep up the good work,
Androgynous Howard
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Feliz cumpleaños
by cheli on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @15:19
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Felicidades, llevo con kde practicamente desde que empecé con linux y de eso ya hace + de 3 años. Siempre instalo las últimas versiones y puedo decir que cada día os superais, seguid en esa linea.
cheli
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Original Vision
by Adam Wiggins on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @16:23
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I think what's amazing is how closely KDE today resembles Matthias' original vision as outlined in this posting. It's rare for a project so expansive to stick so closely to its original goals, especially in the Bazaar.
And, looking at this post, you can see why KDE is the best desktop for UNIX: it's original goals had nothing to do with technical whizbang, and everything to do with creating a usable, useful interface that was both attractive and practical. And that's exactly what KDE is, which is why I love it.
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Congratulations, and THANK YOU!
by Joerg Sauer on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @16:32
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Been using KDE since 1.1 (well, not exactly an "early adopter") and continue to be amazed at the fast progress, the professional approach to software design and user orientation, the great localization support, .... the sheer BEAUTY of it!
Thank you for bringing this not only to the Linux community but to the world in general!
I do think that Linux is not quite ready for the masses (you just can't tell the average user to _recompile_ stuff to resolve an issue or even expect him to understand what a "package dependency" is), _but_ KDE is one of the main ongoing efforts that will eventually help to reach that goal.
And Linux _has_ to be become usable for everyone because it's our only chance to maintain freedom in the software world.
Thank you to all KDE developers.
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For 5 years
by ... on Tuesday 16/Oct/2001, @04:39
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Yoy made very very good work and don't stop .
I Started with 1.0.
Use only (almost) aplication with K before rest.
I love KDE i will for ever.
Run KDE, Run ;-)
Best Regards
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Happy Birthday!!
by John on Tuesday 16/Oct/2001, @06:35
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Happy Birthday KDE, I am now a Gnome user, but I have always loved both desktops. I first used kde when Gnome was in alpha. Once Gnome stabalized I switched over. I've gone back to KDE briefly off and on, and am always impressed with new progress you give us gnome people something to work towards (we are coming pretty close). I love the give and take from the two projects, and without the other one, I don't think either one of the projects would be where they are today. Happy Birthday once again!!
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Competition between KDE & Gnome
by MacPlus on Tuesday 16/Oct/2001, @18:03
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I don't understand when people say that their is no need for competition between Gnome and KDE. Their obviously has to be -- it's only natural. Their market the same *Nix people who are looking for a GUI. True, most (including myself), have both Gnome and KDE. But their's just something is GNOME that's overly repulsive (another story on that ;).
Currently, we can estimate that the *Nix desktop environment is divided at the moment (no one really knows for sure). But what if it was a different story? Say 9 out of every 10 *Nix GUI users used Gnome exclusively?
Face it, deep down inside everyone wants to be a winner. Ultimately, only one project will be sucessfull based quality of code, financials, and other unknown variables.
Remember, heathly compeition is good.
In 9-11 years, which one will be still around? KDE or Gnome?
I want back some KDE Pride! Note that I'm not saying integeration is good -- like say have one audio toolkit instead of esound and ARTS.
Whats wrong with saying 'KDE Rulez, Gnome SUX' ?
How about a little loyalty for a change people?
Thanks,
my 0.02€
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Happy Birthday
by Markus Pietrek on Tuesday 16/Oct/2001, @22:35
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You folks have done a very nice job all over the last years. KDE is my favourite desktop environment since pre releases of 1.0.
Thank you very much.
Markus
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Thank you very much !
by Carsten Ziepke on Thursday 18/Oct/2001, @12:04
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Hello KDE Team,
Congratulation !
I have just upgraded from KDE 1.12 ( Yes, I mean 1.12 ) to 2.21
and I just can say: Wow !
I love the Konqueror. It is so fast.
I love the KDE Tools: e.g. Kate, KDevelop
KOffice is great.
Keep up your great work.
Bye,
Carsten
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Thank you very much !
by Carsten Ziepke on Thursday 18/Oct/2001, @12:04
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Hello KDE Team,
Congratulation !
I have just upgraded from KDE 1.12 ( Yes, I mean 1.12 ) to 2.21
and I just can say: Wow !
I love the Konqueror. It is so fast.
I love the KDE Tools: e.g. Kate, KDevelop
KOffice is great.
Keep up your great work.
Bye,
Carsten
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None - King
by Bill Berggren on Saturday 20/Oct/2001, @11:53
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Well I have used it for 5 weeks and a like it already better that Windows 98. Any improvement will just widen the gap.
Bill
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