In this week's KDE CVS-Digest:
Valgrind gets a heap profiler.
KStars can show the sky objects' distance from earth.
Kopete has refactored password and KWalletManager code.
Many bugfixes in khtml, Kopete and KMail.

Skolelinux
is an ambitious project that aims to provide schools
with a flexible and low-cost IT solution based on Linux and KDE.
I interviewed
Bart Cornelis, Kurt Gramlich, Conrad Newton and Knut Yrvin to
learn more about Skolelinux and the role that KDE plays in it.
You can meet developers from Skolelinux at
FOSDEM and

OSNews is featuring a detailed guide written by Carlos Leonhard Woelz on how to use CVS, a version control system also used for developing KDE, using KDE's CVS client Cervisia. It is a seven page long well-described article with many screenshots useful to both newbies and experienced users.

LinuxCult has published an interview with Everaldo, discussing career, graphic tools, creation process, Linux and KDE. Everaldo is not one of the most communicative guys in the open source community. But not many words are necessary, his work speaks well for him.

As the leading Open Source desktop, many from the private and public sectors have expressed interest in KDE and are currently using it on a daily basis. A message consistently received from those users has been that KDE's usability could be better. While the need for greater usability is not unique to KDE, what is unique is our ability to directly and positively affect the usability processes in KDE via the same Open Source methods that have been at the core of its success.

In a TechDOT.com interview, MEPIS Linux founder Warren Woodford explains their choice of desktop and toolkit: "The bottom line is that I believe KDE gives a better user experience and that Qt is a better application building framework." No arguing with that.

With the release of Qt 3.3 some days ago, IT Manager's Journal recently featured an interesting article on Trolltech. "How's this for a backhanded yet powerful endorsement of a company's products?

Unixreview.com has a nice article about Kuake, a Konsole application with the look and feel of that in the Quake engine.

We're pleased to announce that the Fosdem website has published
a nice interview with Gunnar Schmi Dt
of the KDE Accessibility Project.
Fosdem is a two-day summit taking place February 21 and 22, and will bring together leading developers
in the Free Software community. Contrary to a Linux Expo, Fosdem is an event held by developers, for developers.

Marcel Gagne, very famous for his "Cooking with Linux"
columns in Linux Journal, has informed us about his