The XFree86 Project has announced the XFree86 Technical Conference. The conference will take place on November 8th, 2001, in Oakland, California, in a concurrent run with the 5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference. The last call for papers was put out on July 5th. You have up to July 13th to submit an abstract.

It's finally official: KDE 2.2beta has been

This week in KC KDE, Aaron and Rob bring us news about SOAP and DCOP, KMonop vs Capitalist, a new Cervisia KPart (2), print services integrati

Kent Nguyen has written a very nice and entertaining review of KWord (dot mirror available) as part of a more extensive KOffice examination.

The KDE source code is now available under the LXR system, courtesy of our friends at nadmm.com.
Users and developers may now browse the KDE source code complete with cross-references, which should prove extremely useful. For those of you wondering about the difference between lxr.kde.org and webcvs.kde.org, read on for an explanation from Kurt.

Yesterday I started putting together
a list of operating
systems/distributions and architectures on which KDE 2.x compiles and runs. It is far from
complete but already lists three BSDs, eight Linuxes and four other
Unices, as well as nine architectures. If you know of a system that is not listed, please help us complete
the list. Instructions for contributing are
here.

Here's Rob Kaper's and Aaron Seigo's priceless KC KDE #15. Select your choice of mailing-list sublimate: style code maintainance rockades, PIM roadmaps, multithreading, GCC3 issues, and much more.

Trolltech, creators of the excellent cross-platform GUI library Qt on which KDE is based, announced today a new license for Qt/Windows. Called the Qt Non Commercial license version 1.0, it permits developers of non-commerical software to develop with and distribute the Windows version of Qt for free.

KOffice 1.1beta3 has been announced. Although only a beta, this version should be more stable and feature-complete than previous versions of KOffice. A changelog versus KOffice 1.0 is available as well as an incremental changelog since the last beta.

Long time follower and developer Michael Goffioul is our final guest on the People Behind KDE before the summer break. Michael is the one responsible for a very important new feature of KDE 2.2: the printing system. Thank you, Michael, for tackling this thorny issue.