KDE in the News

FedoraNEWS.ORG: KDE 3.2 Installation and Review, K3b Tutorial

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FedoraNEWS.org features a Quick Introduction to KDE 3.2 Installation and a positive Review of KDE 3.2: "My first impression is 'wow'." The author confesses that he hadn't the time to review every improvement and new application of KDE 3.2 yet but concludes "To sum it up, with so many enhancement


OSNews.com: The KDE 3.2 Beta 2 User Review

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Rahul Gaitonde has written a fairly comprehensive review of KDE 3.2 Beta 2 for OSNews based on his 3 week trial. "The target machine - my only computer - is a Pentium II 266 MHz with 384 MB RAM, with an Intel i810E chipset. [...] The first thing you notice when you start up a few apps is - 'Boy, this is Fast!'. KDE 3.2 is significantly faster than 3.1, and certainly way faster than Gnome 2.4 on my machine.


TechCentral on KDE and Novell/SUSE Acquisition

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With the KDE development and user communities flourishing more than ever, some people are anxious to drum up panic and drama surrounding corporate plays such as the acquisition of SUSE by Novell. As you might know, SUSE has thus far been a huge KDE believer and by using KDE has benefited from a loyal and enthusiastic Linux desktop userbase of its own.


Trouw: Snowflake Becomes Avalanche

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If you can still get your hands on a copy of Trouw from last Friday, you might be thrilled to find half of page 16 dedicated to an interview with KDE contributors Charles Samuels, Rob Kaper and, myself, Fabrice Mous. The three of us met in The Hague with Vincent Dekker and the result is a long article in the Dutch newspaper. A translation of the article follows with the permission of the paper.


2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards

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Voting for the 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards has begun. There are awards for Distribution of the Year, Browser of the Year, Multimedia App of the Year and many other categories. KDE related projects up for awards include KDE, Konqueror, KWin, KOffice, KSpread, KWord, Quanta, KMail and Kate.