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KDE will be present at the Ohio LinuxFest 2005. Aaron Seigo, KDE developer, will be talking at the conference and KDE will have an exhibit in the .org section of the expo area. The Ohio LinuxFest 2005 is a free conference and event for free software enthusiasts in Columbus, Ohio on October 1, 2005. See the schedule and registration page for more information.

At the build system BoF at aKademy it was decided to start moving the KDE 4 build system from unsermake to the SCons/Python based system bksys. To find out more about this important future technology, KDE Dot News talked to its lead developer Thomas Nagy about the reasons behind the change and what it will mean for KDE developers.

Trolltech has released Qt 3.3.5, a new maintenance release to the Qt 3.3 series which incorporates over 200 bug fixes as well as support for new platforms. In related news, a new website "A Qt Blog" has been started whose goal is to summarize happenings in the Qt and KDE worlds.

The preview release of Kubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) has been released. The release announcement lists the new features and where to download. Kubuntu Breezy includes the latest KDE 3.4.2. Although this is a beta release it should be quite safe for everyday use, so give it a shot and let us know how you get on.

Linux Today points to an interview with Zack Rusin which was conducted at aKademy 2005. Topics include his employment by Trolltech, his contributions to X.org and upcoming technologies and eye-candy Zack demoed at the conference. A German version of the article was published by Golem.de.

GNUman.com has published a review of KMyMoney, the personal finance manager for KDE. The author is impressed: "KMyMoney is a great program, I’ve tried GnuCash previously and had a heck of a time learning it, but not with KMyMoney."

NewsForge summaries the activities at the recent KDE Developers and Users Conference 2005 "aKademy". Thanks again to our conference sponsors who made it possible, spearheaded by premium sponsor Trolltech and followed by the gold sponsors Novell/SUSE, Hewlett-Packard, Costa de Sol and Junta de Andalucia.

The amaroK developers are currently working on the 1.3 release of their live CD. If you are an Open Source artist and are interested in creating the amaroK 1.3 live CD artwork then join the 7 day artwork challenge. Excellent prizes await the winner. The CD will include songs from Magnatune, the "open music record label". These songs are "free as in free music". In other artwork-related news the logo contest for Kontact has come to an end with over 60 individual pieces of artwork submitted by 24 artists. The winner, who will receive a Wacom Graphic tablet, will be announced soon.

The KDE security team has published a security advisory concerning a local root vulnerability: kcheckpass can, in some configurations, be used to gain root access. All KDE releases starting from KDE 3.2.0 up to including KDE 3.4.2 are affected.

With its Issue #6, TUX Magazine published the winners of its first annual Readers' Choice Awards, placing KDE in the first place in the "Favorite Desktop Environment" category and digiKam first in the "Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool".