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PC-BSD is one of the newest additions to the BSD family. The focus for this project is to create a user-friendly desktop experience based on FreeBSD and it has quickly garnered attention from media and the community. Kris Moore founder and lead developer of PC-BSD took some time off to answer a few questions about the past and current state of the project in general and its relation to KDE in particular. Read More

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Kickoff, the experimental application menu alternative developed by SuSE, is imported into KDE SVN. Import of the work to support SVG scalable tilesets in KMahjongg. KViewShell gets support for LZW compressed fax files. Strigi gets support for the D-Bus Inter-Process Communication service, KBFX, a prospective element of Plasma, gets full support for Strigi. Kaffeine gets DVB plugin support. Amarok sees fundamental changes in a key statistics technology, along with a name change of the technology to "Amarok File Tracking (AFT)". Development of SafeSite, a network-aware phishing protection service proceeds. Interface changes in KTorrent. Read More

Last Wednesday was Konqueror Bug Day. The aim was to either confirm or close as many unconfirmed Konqueror bugs as possible, known as bug triage. About 150 bugs were dealt with. Collaboration happened on IRC (#konq-bugs), and on the wiki page. #kde-bugs on irc.freenode.net is already proving fertile ground for planning similar events in near future. Read More

10 years ago, on October 14th 1996, Matthias Ettrich announced a project to create a complete and consistent GUI for the prospering Linux operating system. The project grew and matured and now it is 2006 and KDE is one of the largest Free Software projects. To celebrate this anniversary the KDE project encourages the community to organise events all over the world, to meet and party and celebrate Free Software. The main event will take place in Stuttgart, Germany on October 13th (we'll party into October 14th) when the KDE e.V. invites the community, business partners and friends of KDE to celebrate this outstanding achievement. Other events are scheduled in the Netherlands (Nijmegen) and Portugal. For further information and questions you can visit #kde-anniversary on irc.kde.org or subscribe to kde-promo. Read More

Trolltech has released a second preview of Qt Jambi - a prototype version of Qt that allows Java programmers to use the popular cross-platform development framework. This release incorporates the feedback of over 1700 beta testers, and features new additions like Web Start functionality, improved integration with Eclipse and single JAR file deployment for Qt Jambi-based applications. Technical details are available in the Qt Jambi Whitepaper. To try it out, sign up for the preview license and download. Read More

NewsForge reports on how Kalzium was created. 'As a teacher in Lower Saxony, Germany, one of Niehaus' main goals when developing Kalzium (the German word for Calcium) was to write an application that was both a teaching and a learning tool. "I want to be able to demonstrate things and I also want my students to be able to learn things from Kalzium and to use it as a reference," he says.' Read More

Today's People Behind KDE features the American lass who is forging the KDE 4 Human Interface Guidelines. Find out the advantage of a hobby against job, what is wrong with Fruit Salad plus the good fortune of one KDE convert as we interview Celeste Lyn Paul. Read More

Ten days ago we got the first snapshot of KDE4. If you already played a bit with it, now you can continue discovering more interesting things playing with the unstable package of Okular, a universal document viewer for KDE4 based on the KPDF code. *** Desktop Linux has finished its annual desktop survey with KDE as the most popular desktop once again. *** Krusader released 1.70.1 last month fixing a security issue. *** Finally congratulations to KDE e.V. president Eva Brucherseifer who married the charming Matthias Welwarsky. Read More

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: as the Summer Of Code draws to a close, a mass code import in the Physiks project, and other notable commits for several of the other affiliated projects. Work begins on a Kexi importer for KSpread. Numerous improvements for displaying data in forms and table view in Kexi, including support for default values and tooltips for large content. Lots of work on the Kross scripting framework. Improved functionality in Konversation and KFTPGrabber. Speed and memory optimisations in KDevelop and Filelight. An experimental project begins to integrate the Orca Screen Reader into KDE 4 using D-Bus. Read More

KDE's legal body KDE e.V. has published its second 2006 quarterly report. Topics covered include progress organising Akademy 2006, activities from the working groups and sysadmins, events organised and attended and seven new members. If you have been helping KDE for a while, do consider joining the e.V. membership. Read More