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KDE at USENIX 2004 Annual Technical Conference

Posted by Cornelius Schumacher on Wednesday 28/Jul/2004, @15:43
from the spreading-the-word dept.
From June 27th to July 2nd 2004 the USENIX Annual Technical Conference took place at Boston. The FREENIX track featured a refereed paper about Kontact and how it is used as an application integration framework which was presented by Cornelius Schumacher. You can find the paper and the slides of the presentation at the Kontact home page.

The conference also featured a lot of other interesting talks. To name only a few: Matthias Ettrich presented the technical changes in Qt 4, in the plenary session Bruce Schneier held a thought-inspiring talk about how security-tradeoffs influence our lives and how we might be able to handle this in a sensible way and Rob Pike gave some insight in the amazing technology Google uses to power their search engine. One of the talks which was awarded as best paper in the FREENIX track was about "Wayback, a versioning file system for Linux". This could be an interesting technology to be integrated with KDE, for example with the file dialog.

A BoF session about "Locking Down Enterprise KDE & KDE 3.3 Preview for Administrators" showed again the great interest in the KDE desktop lock-down features which are provided by the KIOSK framework and in particular the KIOSK Admin Tool.

The week after the conference code was put behind the talks. The KDE project released the first beta of Kontact 1.0 as part of KDE 3.3 Beta 1, Trolltech released the first technology preview of Qt 4 and Waldo Bastian released version 0.6 of the KIOSK Admin Tool.

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KDE 3.3.3??
by Inge Wallin on Thursday 29/Jul/2004, @00:29

You're *waaayyyy* ahead of me.

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Re: KDE 3.3.3??
by Cornelius Schumacher on Thursday 29/Jul/2004, @00:33

Well, you are right. KDE does a lot of things, but traveling in time unfortunately isn't included in the feature set yet. Has to be "KDE 3.3" of course.

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Re: KDE 3.3.3??
by superstoned on Thursday 29/Jul/2004, @01:56

aaah, but athene (http://www.rocklyte.com/athene/index.html) DOES feature KDE 3.3.3 ;-)

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Re: KDE 3.3.3??
by Vasilis on Friday 30/Jul/2004, @09:57

I think it is a typo. I should be KDE 3.2.3

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Re: KDE 3.3.3??
by superstoned on Saturday 31/Jul/2004, @02:14

duh

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Re: KDE 3.3.3??
by Inge Wallin on Saturday 31/Jul/2004, @02:45

And why aren't you? You can be anything you want, if you put your heart to it!

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Re: KDE 3.3.3??
by Richard Dale on Saturday 31/Jul/2004, @04:43

"Well, you are right. KDE does a lot of things, but traveling in time unfortunately isn't included in the feature set yet."

From what I can understand about the previous article 'Pushing KDE's Science: Evolution Sim', people seem to already be hard at work on closing that gap, by simply simulating the entire Universe :)

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Re: KDE 3.3.3??
by Raphael Langerhorst on Sunday 01/Aug/2004, @05:45

we will do our best *g*

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OT: KDE CVS digest
by MK on Saturday 31/Jul/2004, @08:53

Sorry for being offtopic, but have I missed anything concerning the cvs-digest?

Two-weeks without digest is a hard time for me ;-)

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Re: OT: KDE CVS digest
by Anonymous on Saturday 31/Jul/2004, @09:20

See http://cvs-digest.org for current status.

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Re: OT: KDE CVS digest
by Derek Kite on Sunday 01/Aug/2004, @08:41

This afternoon it should be ready (sunday).

Derek

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Re: OT: KDE CVS digest
by Anonymous on Sunday 01/Aug/2004, @10:27

Will it cover two weeks?

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Re: OT: KDE CVS digest
by Derek Kite on Sunday 01/Aug/2004, @12:57

Yes

Derek

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