Hong Feng, apparently a
former chief editor with O'Reilly & Associates in Beijing,
is preparing the first issue of the
Free Software
Magazine, a periodical intended to be by and for free software hackers. He is looking for some contributors
to the inaugural issue (slated for January 2002) who can write on
KDE development and/or
Qt/Embedded development (hmmm, an article about

Oliver Strutynski has a mission.
Frustrated by the fact that some online banks discriminate against
Konqueror, he has
announced
a website for promoting
Konqueror to banks. According to the site, "It is the purpose of

Those of you interested in the interoperability of KDE with handheld computers will already be familiar with KDE developer Adriaan de Groot, current maintainer of KPilot, and guest of this week's instalment of the People Behind KDE interviews.

Eric Laffoon reports that the stories of the demise of GPL'd Quanta have been greatly exaggerated, and to prove it, the Quanta Plus developers have released Quanta Plus 2.0. For those of you who don't know yet, Quanta Plus is a popular and rapid web development tool for KDE.

KDE developers are cordially invited to the Free and Open Source Software Development Meeting (FOSDEM) which is taking place in Brussels on February 16-17, 2002. A dedicated KDE room will be made available for development talks as well as presentations.

Aaron J. Seigo and
Juergen Appel have published the
27th issue of
KC KDE, and this is a good one.
Topics cover certain problems with using Qt-2.3.2, eliminating desktop icons,
preventing dialogs from stealing focus, the new

Chris Howells wrote in to inform us of the new KDEPrint site at printing.kde.org.

KDevelop's programmer
extraordinaire Ralf Nolden
has added cross-compilation support to KDevelop. As his initial motivation
was to support development for the
Zaurus
(as we reported earlier this month, Trolltech and

CRN today published an article destined
to give KDE/Linux naysayers food for thought regarding the viability of KDE
as enterprise desktop software. In this well-researched article by
Frank J. Ohlhorst, the
CRN Test Center built a Linux network consisting of a server and five
workstations, with the goal of creating a reliable network that

For this week's edition of "People of KDE", Tink interviews Rob Kaper, author of Atlantik, all-round KDE evangelist and one of the few KDE developers marked "up for adoption" (and he kindly includes his dishes in the for-adoption kit :-). Say hi to Rob.