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After a few months of quiet activity, the Appeal desktop project has rolled out a new project website that documents what everyone has been up to and discussing. Since the the last public announcement many things have occurred, including another Appeal meeting being held in Germany. The project is looking forward to sharing its experiences and gathering input from the general KDE developer community at aKademy 2005 later this month. Read More

DesktopBSD is a custom FreeBSD-based desktop focussed on stability, usability and simplicity. In developing an easy to use desktop operating system, DesktopBSD has chosen to use KDE. Screenshots showing the desktop tools in action are available. Read More

It looks like the first part of my KDE 3.5 previews was extremely popular. Much more than I could ever anticipated. I even got Slashdotted. Anyway, here is the second part of the look into the KDE's near future. Enjoy the tour! Read More

The KMyMoney development team is proud to announce the availability of the newest stable release of KMyMoney, version 0.8. A lot of progress has been made since version 0.6 was released. Existing features have been improved and many new features have been added. The following article gives you a short overview of them. Read More

To begin the KDE 3.5 release cycle, I uploaded KDE 3.5 Alpha 1 to the FTP servers. We're facing some trouble that is typical for an Alpha release, but it also brings some nice KDE 3.5 features to your desktop. The easiest way to try it is the KDE 3.5 Alpha Live CD or compile it yourself with the Konstruct build script. Read More

With all the excitement surrounding KDE 4 development at the moment people are starting to ask why they have not seen any updates on what KDE 4 will look like. KDE 4 - Understanding the Buzz answers these increasingly common questions by explaining the current status of KDE 4 development and why the exciting work so far is only visible to developers. "Before any new features can be added to KDE and projects like Plasma can get underway, the porting of KDE to Qt 4 has to be completed." Read More

Even though the TaskJuggler Team considers the just released 2.1.1 version of their Project Management software mostly a bug fix release, this release is a major milestone with respect to KDE integration. But before I dive into the details, let me give you some background on the TaskJuggler project. Read More

The current DistroWatch Weekly is guest-edited by Adam Doxtater, of Mad Penguin. His Tips and tricks section takes a look at Konqueror and Kate and lets us know that "Konqueror and Kate make an excellent remote admin team... and a killer casserole". He covers Konqueror's split view and the power of kioslaves to edit directly from a remote server. Read More

KDE-Artists.org has interviewed KDE's Konqi artist Bastian Salmela. Basse talks about how he got involved in KDE artwork when he updated the model our maskot Konqi the Dragon. He also reveals his next project to be Orange, the first Open Source animated film. Meanwhile the Kollaboration forum for artist/developer communication has some exciting projects on the go, read on for more. Read More

The latest People Behind KDE interview is with Nuno Pinheiro. Nuno has been working hard making the KDE OpenOffice icon set. The Portugese civil engineer is also working on the promised new Oxygen icon theme. As usual we find out about the non-geek side too and meet his two dogs. Read More