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A VMware Player image of KDE 3.5.4 with KOffice 1.5.2 running on SUSE Linux 10.1 is now available. The image is fully functional and can be upgraded and tweaked as needed. The VMware Player necessary to run it can be downloaded for free and is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux. Read More

The final round of voting in the 2005 Linux Journal Readers' Choice awards has begun. The final ballot is based on the results of two previous rounds of open voting, and mostly the top two vote-getters in each category have made it to the final ballot. Eight KDE-related projects are still in the competition. The deadline for voting is July 28, the winners will be announced in the November 2005 issue of the magazine. Read More

Matt Harrison's blog features a rather interesting interview with two KHTML developers, Ivor Hewitt (of AdBlocK fame) and Allan Sandfeld Jensen (of ACID2 fame). They talk about how they got involved in KDE, the projects they've worked on and the situation between KDE and Apple. Read More

The Qt 4 Resource Center site has taken a look at the examples and demos supplied with the recent Qt 4 release candidate. The article is illustrated with many screenshots. Read More

In the 2004 Desktop Linux Market survey (concluded in January 2005), 3841 DesktopLinux.com readers weighed in with their choices for amongst others Linux distributions, email clients and web browsers. Particularly interesting are the result of the windowing environments poll: in just a year, KDE grew from 44% to 61%. Congratulations to the KDE team for such amazing results. Read More

Tuxmachines.org has one of the first reviews of KDE 3.4 (coral cache). From the article: "KDE 3.4 is a reflection of the many years of development invested into the project with more shine and polish than ever experienced with any desktop environment in existance today." Screenshots are also available (coral cache). Read More

What an exciting KDE summer! Release dude Coolo is planning the KDE 3.3 release for just 3 days before "aKademy" starts: The release plan was published on Saturday for discussion! Developers should make sure to get the stuff listed they plan to have ready for 3.3 in the planned-features document as soon as possible. KDE 3.3 Alpha is prepared around May 23rd and June 1st will see the first freeze (excluding outstanding listed features and i18n strings) kicking in. Read More

ZDNet reviews KDE 2.2.1, saying it provides a seamless migration from Microsoft platforms for business users and a comprehensive set of productivity applications, internet software and user management programs. They also mention, that "since KDE is merely running on top of the X Window System, you can perform remote administration of any KDE-enabled system by redirecting application output to another X server on the network." Read More

IBM developerWorks is featuring a positive review and introduction to KDE 2.1 by Sam Lantiga of Loki Software. Despite being slightly out of date, and having a few errors or misunderstandings (the author states that Konqueror supports neither Java, Javascript nor Flash) the article is generally positive with nice tips and screenshots, and is worth reading especially for users new to KDE. Read More