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The KDE Project is happy to announce a new major release of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. Many features have been added or refined, making KDE 3.5 the most complete, stable and integrated free desktop environment available. For a quick look at some of the new features see the visual guide to KDE 3.5. Packages are available now for ArchLinux, Kubuntu, Slackware and SuSE or try Konstruct to build it yourself. Read More

Nokia has unveiled their new web browser for its mobile phones, based upon the KDE Project's open source technology. The browser uses the KHTML and KJS rendering engines, also used by Apple in their Safari browser, to provide a fast and powerful web browser. The move follows a presentation given by Nokia engineers to the annual KDE conference, aKademy. Read More

Today NewsForge published the last of my daily articles from aKademy. To read more about what happened in Ludwigsburg each day, dig into the articles from Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd (the developers' conference), Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th, Wednesday 25th, Thursday 26th and Friday 27th (the coding marathon), and finally Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th (the users' and administrators' conference). Many thanks again to Giovanni Venturi, Stephan Binner, Sven Guckes, Michael Prokop, Peter Rockai and to anyone else whose photos I used in the series! Read More

John Terpstra, one of the long-term members of the Samba Team, never shies away from speaking his mind. He is known not only for his work on documenting Samba, and his long experience as a Senior Consultant, but also for his outspoken views on intellectual property. Intrigued by an article he published on Groklaw recently, I took his attendance at the KDE World Summit - aKademy - as an opportunity to talk to him about his thoughts on intellectual property, what problems the free software community faces, and how we (including KDE specifically) should respond. Read on for my reflections on our discussion. Read More

In his speech at aKademy, Bernhard Reiter of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) both celebrated Software Freedom Day and reminded the KDE community of what freedom in software means. The FSFE was founded in 2001 to promote and defend Free Software, and to coordinate national Free Software organizations, throughout Europe. Bernhard is the Chancellor of the German Chapter and has been involved since the FSFE's inception. Interested in what he had to say to the KDE community, I caught up with him after his talk to ask him a few questions. Read on for his responses. Read More

The Free Software community is constantly inundated with interesting new projects, but occasionally something crops up which is really special. Kst is just such a project. Started by Barth Netterfield, an astrophysicist, as a personal project to plot data from his experiments, it has now taken on a life of its own, being used in numerous academic projects, and finding funding from several government agencies. Intrigued by this project's success, and with a little prod from co-developer George Staikos, I interviewed Barth and George about kst, Free Software and physics. Read More

At the beginning of March, the KDE Project announced the launch of the Quality Teams Project, a new effort to help people contribute to KDE, whether you are a programmer or not. Lots of people showed interest, and we enjoyed an initial burst of activity, so read on to find out what has happened, and how you can get involved in your favorite desktop environment, and see your work being distributed around the world. Read More

Following the release of KDE 3.2, a friend and I have put together a series of articles promoting features of KDE that might change the way you work. We all know about the features of KDE that are promoted in press releases and demonstrated in screenshots, but the enormous power that lies "under the hood" of KDE in technologies like kioslaves, view profiles and kparts is often overlooked. So far we have three complete articles: Managing Websites, Extending Konqueror with View Profiles, and Using KPrinter in Any App. We hope to develop this into a decent series of promotional articles, beyond the "tips and tricks" already available, so comments and suggestions are welcome! Read More

QuickRip (screenshots) is a DVD backup utility for GNU/Linux, with a Qt interface as well as a command line interface. It makes ripping DVDs onto your hard drive quick and easy, and so is ideal for those who aren't bothered about framerates, clipping, and other (usually) unnecessary options. Version 0.7 has just been released, bringing the basic list of features close to completion, but we'd like to see more feature requests, bug reports (or less!) and code submissions before we hit the 1.0 milestone to make QuickRip the best DVD backup utility for KDE. Read More