KDE Success Story

KDE Terminals in Rural South Africa

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South African news site Tectonic is reporting how KDE terminals are Giving South African Farmers a Leg-up. Limpopo's Digital Doorways project are installing computers running KDE in rural community centres to assist farmers. KDE language modules have been added for isiZulu, isiXhosa, tshiVenda, Setswana, and Afrikaans. The government's IT manager said "People's perception of open source is that everything is command-based, text-based.


Dutch Record Shop Chain Migrates 1000 PCs to KDE on Novell Linux Desktop

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At first glance, a shop is not a place where you would expect to
find KDE in the workplace. Yet the Dutch Free Record Shop is
deploying it on a large scale as the operating system for
their point of sale systems. According to the supplier Novell,
it is one of the application areas where simple and restricted functionality is
required, leading to a breakthrough for GNU/Linux on the PC. An article from


Brazil Starts Deployment of Low Cost KDE Computers

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A new inititive by the Brazillian government will see low cost KDE based computers on sale throughout the country from next week. The Computers for All scheme will bring "cheap and accessible" computers following a recent law cutting taxes and encouraging affordable financing for low income buyers of computers preinstalled with Free Software operating systems. Several companies are involved in the scheme with most using KDE desktops.


KDE and Qt Projects Take Top Honors In TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005

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Werner Heuser from TuxMobil announced
this year's winners of the TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award
2005
, which honors projects improving the Linux experience on mobile
computers.
Two of the five awarded projects have ties to KDE: KDE-Pim/Pi (Pi-Sync) and KWlanInfo, while


KDE Desktop Trial in US Schools

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Linspire has announced that their KDE based operating system is being trialed for use by schools in Indiana state. The Indiana Access Program will provide every classroom with computers for all their pupils. There are already several thousand Linspire machines running KDE in use in dozens of classrooms across the state to explore the benefits of one-to-one classroom computing.