Interviews

KDE and Business: Intevation Interview

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In the first in a series of articles, KDE Dot News will cover businesses with past and present involvement that are vital to KDE's ongoing success. Today, we interview Bernhard Reiter and Bernhard Herzog of Intevation, a company
that has long been helpful with KDE application development and quality
assurance.

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Jes Hall on Linux Link Tech Show

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Following last week's interview with Zack Rusin the Linux Link Tech Show will be interviewing Jes Hall. The interview starts at 21:00EST Wednesday which is 02:00UTC Thursday. She will be discussing KDE 4, Plasma, her work on KDE documentation and photography. Update: Episode 126 now available for download, Jes starts 42 minutes in.


Zack Rusin on Linux Link Tech Show

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Zack Rusin, KDE graphics and X developer, will be on the audio streamed Linux Link Tech Show this US-time evening. Zack will be talking about the latest developments in X and how we can make best use of the up-coming new technologies in KDE. The show starts at 0200 Thursday UTC (2100 Wednesday evening Eastern Standard Time) and will last for about 45 minutes, streaming in MP3 format.


People Behind KDE: Boudewijn Rempt

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Tonight's People Behind KDE interview is with the author of the most active program in KDE, Krita. Not only has he made the premier free software painting application he has also added the vital vertical-maximise feature to KWin. Find out what the most inspirational thing is for a hacker fixing his bugs in our interview with Boudewijn Rempt.


Interview with Valgrind Author Julian Seward

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Valgrind is a CPU simulator which is used by KDE and many other projects to profile and debug our programmes. In the interview below Valgrind author Julian Seward talks to KDE Dot News about why he developed Valgrind, how you can use it and, most importantly, where the name comes from. Julian will be giving a talk on Valgrind next Sunday at FOSDEM.

Julian Seward, Valgrind lead

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People Behind KDE: Görkem Çetin

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Tonight's interview on People Behind KDE is with one of the heros of KDE localisation. This man leads the KDE Turkey group and translates KDE into Turkish. For KDE 4 he plans to get 100% Turkish support but how did he get a t-shirt with Che on it and why does he feel an affiliation towards the KDE Run Command dialogue? Find out as People Behind KDE presents Görkem Çetin.


Interview with kde-redhat Project Leader Rex Dieter

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Rex Dieter has been making the unofficial KDE Red Hat packages for some years now. Since this is a service depended upon by thousands of Red Hat users to get their required latest build of KDE, KDE Dot News interviewed Rex to find out how he got started, why the need for the project exists and how he makes the packages. Read on for the interview.

Rex with some of his packages

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People Behind KDE: Sebastian Trüg

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Welcoming in the new year is People Behind KDE bringing us one of the little known stars of KDE development. Sebastian Trüg is the man behind one of KDE's most successful applications, K3b. Read the interview to find out how K3b started, what KDE needs to conquer the world and what keeps Sebastian motivated to work on the premier CD burning application.