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Three KDE security advisories have been released today that address minor problems that were brought to the attention of the KDE security team over the last few months. All these issues have been fixed in KDE 3.4, for older KDE versions patches are available. Read More

LinuxQuestions.org announced this week the results of their annual Members Choice Awards. Just like in previous years KDE proved once more to be the most popular desktop environment. In the individual categories KDE applications made a strong presence as well. Read More

Trolltech, maker of the Qt toolkit which forms the basis for KDE, announced today that the Qt version for Microsoft Windows will be available under the GPL in addition to its current commercial license offerings for that platform. This change will take place with the release of Qt 4. The Qt version for Linux has been available under a similar dual licensing scheme for several years already. The availability of a GPL'ed Qt for Microsoft Windows will make it much easier to distribute KDE applications that run on the Microsoft Windows platform. Read More

Three security advisories have been issued this week. The first two are due to a vulnerability that was discovered in xpdf. Both KPDF and the KOffice PDF import filter include their own version of xpdf and as a result they too will require some updating. The third advisory involves Konversation in which several security issues where discovered. Read More

A security advisory was issued today for a vulnerability in Konqueror's handling of Java applets. The issue was reported to security@kde.org by heise Security after a report of a similar vulnerability in the Opera web browser. All versions of KDE up to KDE 3.3.1 inclusive are affected. KDE 3.3.2 is not affected. Read More

Three security advisories have been issued by the KDE Security Team over the last few days for three distinct vulnerabilities that have been found in KDE: Plain Text Password Exposure, KFax libtiff Vulnerabilities and a Konqueror Window Injection Vulnerability. Read More

As part of its Grumpy Editor series, LWN.net looks at PDF viewers including the KDE applications KGhostview and KPDF. The author was impressed by KGhostview and sees a bright future for KPDF. Read More

KDE::Enterprise is featuring an interesting new article [pdf, 2Mb] from Novell consultant Adrián Malaguti in which he explains step-by-step how to apply restrictive policies to a Novell Linux Desktop 9 KDE desktop, manage Linux users from eDirectory, authenticate through LDAP and store user's data and profiles in a remote NFS server for centralized management. A must-read for anyone who wants to roll out KDE in their organisation. Read More

A security advisory has been issued for a cross-domain cookie injection vulnerability. The vulnerability is limited to hosts under certain country specific domains such as the British .ltd.uk domain and the Indian .firm.in domain. KDE 3.3 already contains a fix for this issue. Read More

Three security advisories have been issued today for KDE. The first advisory concerns the unsafe handling of KDE's temporary directory in certain circumstances. The second advisory relates to the unsafe creation of temporary files by KDE 3.2.x's dcopserver. The third advisory is about a frame injection vulnerability in Konqueror as earlier reported by Heise Online and Secunia. Read More

You may have noticed that your beloved KDE news site experienced availability problems during the last two weeks. The reason for the outage was a scheduled server movement followed by some unscheduled problems. We hope to have everything under control again and would like to thank Pierre-Emmanuel Muller of leVillage for hosting dot.kde.org and for helping us out with the recent problems. Read More

iDEFENSE identified a vulnerability in the Opera Web Browser that could allow remote attackers to create or truncate arbitrary files. The KDE team has found that similar vulnerabilities exists in KDE. Read More

KDE's main CVS server received a memory upgrade today bringing its total memory to 2.5 GB RAM. The CVS server forms the heart of KDE's technical infrastructure and is responsible for providing KDE developers world wide with up to date versions of the KDE software. Due to the increasing number of KDE developers and KDE hosted projects the previous configuration reached its limits. With the new memory we expect to be able to provide reliable operation for quite some time to come. The memory upgrade has been financed from the generous donations that KDE has received. Thank you! Read More

The Australian Linux/Open Source Magazine, linmagau.org, has an interview with George Staikos reflecting on the KDE 3.2 release. For those who have yet to try KDE 3.2, George has the following advice: "You have to experience KDE 3.2 to really understand how much KDE has improved since 3.1. The speed is clear. Give Konqueror a try, it's more stable, more compatible, and again, faster. KDevelop 3 is a whole new application and will quickly become your IDE of choice." Read More

The People Behind KDE series is back from a long vacation thanks to overwhelming popular demand. In this first interview, KDE's ever so charming Tink gets back with Matthias Ettrich to see what has changed since the previous interview now more than three years ago. Read More

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 the FreeEDEM-conference in Brussels, Belgium this weekend (February 21-22, 2004) and later this year at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tag in Germany (March 6-7, 2004). Read More

kdenonbeta is KDE's source repository for code that is not ready yet to be included in KDE's beta releases. It can be considered a nursing ground for new software. Unfortunately not all software reaches adolescence. Below you find a list of programs that have been removed from kdenonbeta due to lack of development. If you are the author of a program in kdenonbeta that is still there after this cleanup, now is a good time to think about the future of your code. Read More

The LinuxWorld Magazine 2003 Readers' Choice Awards, often referred to as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," recognizes excellence in the solutions provided by the top Linux vendors in the market. We are therefore very proud that KDE 3.1 has won first place in the "Best Linux Desktop Manager" category. Read More

Dirk Mueller released today KDE 3.1.5, the latest and final release in the KDE 3.1 series. The release was triggered by a security issue that was discovered in the VCF file information reader. The ChangeLog lists the other fixes contained in this release. KDE 3.2 is expected to be released early February. Read More

KDE won the Award for Desktop Environment of the Year in the 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards with a convincing 55% of the votes. Quanta also won an award in the Web Development Editor of the Year category with 49% of the votes. Congratulations go to everyone who has helped to make this software such a success and a big "Thank You" goes to all of our users who have taken the time to vote for their favourite desktop. With KDE 3.2 coming out soon we hope that we can make 2004 an even bigger success for KDE than 2003 has proven to be! Read More

Thanks to the hard work of Frank Karlitschek during the holiday season, we are proud to welcome KDE-Apps.org amongst our midsts. KDE-Apps.org is the new online database for KDE applications. Since the site is still very new, Frank would like to hear your suggestions for improvements. The database is also still a bit empty but you can change that by submitting the KDE applications that you have written to the site. Read More

KDE received a pleasant surprise this week when an anonymous well-wisher donated $1000 to KDE e.V. On behalf of everyone in the KDE community we would hereby like to thank our generous friend. KDE e.V. uses donations to maintain the various KDE servers, to reimburse travel expenses for KDE related activities of KDE developers and for other activities that help to advance the goals of KDE. If you too wish to show your appreciation for the KDE project by making a donation you can use the donation form on our website. Happy Holidays! Read More

Stefan Teleman reported today to the kde-solaris mailinglist that KDE 3.1.4 packages for Solaris 8 are now available. The packages have been build with the Sun Forte 8 compiler. Before rushing off to try the packages it is strongly recommended to read the installation instructions first. If you still encounter problems after you have followed the instructions you are welcome to report them to the kde-solaris mailinglist where Stefan will try to help you. Read More

NEWS ALERT: In tonight's edition of the The Linux Show our beloved KDE desktop will be featured and KDE developers George Staikos and Aaron J. Seigo will join in. It all starts LIVE at 6pm PST / 7pm MST / 8pm CST / 9pm EST at www.thelinuxshow.com. Update: The archived version of the show is now available for download. Read More

After gathering a bit of dust due to some server changes KDE::Enterprise has recently received a face lift and is now fully operational again. To freshen up the contents we would like to invite you to share your KDE Success Stories with us. Has your company made a succesful switch to KDE? Tell us about it! Read More

The KDE Security team has issued an advisory on a vulnerability present in all versions of KDE that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands under your account. KDE 3.0.5b and KDE 3.1.1a have been released to address this problem. For KDE 2.2.2 patches to the KDE 2.2.2 sources have been made available. Read More

Shawn Gordon of theKompany has found a new and innovative way to support KDE development: a new line of KDE-themed merchandise has been made available and each month a random KDE developer will be awarded with the profits from the sale. Read More

The KDE Project is happy to announce the release of KDE 3.0.3, an update for KDE 3.0 with further bugfixes and an important security fix. Read more in the announcement and on the KDE 3.0.3 Info Page. Credits go to Dirk Mueller for his tireless work as release coordinator. Thank you Dirk. Read More

A problem has been discovered in the way in which the KDE webbrowser Konqueror handles SSL certificates. SSL certificates are used by websites to prove that they are indeed the website the user thinks they are. The following advisory has been released to bring this issue under the attention of all KDE users. Read More

Open for Business has held its first annual OfB Open Choice Awards and KDE 3.0 has won in the category Best Desktop Environment: "If the KDE Project had been content to stick with KDE 2.x, this may very well have been GNOME's year to shine. Unfortunately for the younger project, KDE moved forward at such a rapid pace this year, some people thought the project's development process might crumble under its own weight. It did not, and KDE 3.0 emerged as the most polished, professional desktop available for Unix and Unix-like systems." Read More

Despite being up to her ears into the moving boxes, Tink managed to publish the last two interviews of this season today. You can learn more about Jason Katz-Brown who recently enriched KDE CVS with Kolf. And about Masaji Takeyama who brings KDE to the masses in Japan. Enjoy! Read More

Ever wonder what a KDE developer looked like in a Christmas party setting? Ever wonder if Mosfet had a good-looking sister? Hop on over to this week's interview with Lukáš Tinkl, on the People Behind KDE page, and find out why Lukáš likes it hot and if it's possible to be single AND have a girlfriend. Lukáš is co-maintainer of kde-i18n, is coding on KOffice, KPresenter, KSpread, the image gallery plugin for Konqueror and, he doesn't know for sure, perhaps more. Read More

KDE reached a milestone last week with the release of KDE 3.0, but that doesn't mean that KDE development is finished. Indeed, many things still need improvement and many exciting features have yet to be added to KDE. Fortunately, there are a number of different ways in which you can help make KDE better! Read More

In this week's episode of The People Behind KDE, we travel to Leopoldsburg in La Belgique where we meet Kristof Borrey. Although unknown to many, Kristof is an exceptional talented graphic artist and is author of the iKons icon theme. When Kristof doesn't spend his time drawing, he works on his thesis about the use of Linux in E-business. Read more about Kristof here. Read More

In this hectic week before the KDE 3.0 release, Tink found time to interview Eva Brucherseifer for this week's episode of The People Behind KDE. Eva is an electrical engineer from Germany and a driving force behind the KDE-Women and KDE-Edu projects and the KDE-Solaris mailing list. Read more about Eva in her interview, and don't forget to check out her favourite URL! Read More

Did you ever, without any particular reason whatsoever, wonder "Who is Neil?" Despair no longer, for in this week's installment of The People Behind KDE, Tink came up with a whole new set of questions to find out. To learn what Neil wears inside and outside his bed or what his plans are for Noatun, jump straight to the interview. Read More

Come sit along our campfire, kids! In this week's installment of The People Behind KDE, we finally meet someone who not only isn't afraid to sing, but who even brought his own guitar with him! So come join us and learn a thing or two about Falk Brettschneider, famous for QextMDI and his contributions to KDevelop. Read More

Sit back and relax! This week's episode of The People behind KDE takes you to Spain. It is of course no coincidence that it is here that Tink spoke with Jaime Robles, member of the Spanish KDE translation team. Learn a little Spanish yourself through this excellent interview. Read More

In this week's episode of The People Behind KDE, you can learn all about Dimitris Kamenopoulos. Dimitris provides internationalisation (i18n) and localisation (l10n) of KDE into Greek. Rush to the interview, if you want to find out how to spend time on KDE without having your girlfriend complain. Read More

Meni Livne, who lives in Israel, is KDE's Hebrew localization coordinator and the maintainer of the KDE Israel website. You can read all about him in this weeks episode of People behind KDE. On a snownote, Tink and Konqi have made a cute snowman this week for the snow-challenged among us. Read More

Ian Geiser alerted us that our friends over at ResExcellence have a very nice article about running KDE 2.1 on your PPC. When you are finished with this one, you might want to click Up to read some of the other interesting stories about KDE and Linux PPC that you can find on this site. A big thanks goes to Ian for his hard work on the KDE packages for PPC. Read More