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Trolltech announced a successful round of funding and the end of their "relationship" with SCO and Canopy. Read more on Scott Colin's blog. *** LWN.net has an article on KHTML and Apple featuring KDE e.V. board member Harri Porten. *** Open Source Versus did a screenshot comparison of KDE's Kontact against two of its rivals. *** We've been notified of a couple of promising looking Qt/KDE based Internet telephony programmes, OpenWengo and Twinkle phone. *** MEPIS has announced a low-resources version of their distribution using KOffice and if you haven't tried the recent KOffice 1.4 beta there are now packages available for Kubuntu, Mandriva, SuSE and Slackware plus a special KOffice edition of Klax Live CD. *** KDE Brilliant Buttons are available for almost every KDE application, add to your blog or website to show your allegiances. Read More

MusE is an extensive Open Source MIDI and audio sequencer for Linux, based on Qt. The developers have been interviewed by O'Reilly. For those interested in some background information about MusE, MIDI and audio development on Linux, be sure to check it out. A progress report for the coming 0.7.2 and 1.0 releases has also been posted to the MusE website. Read More

Following the move to Subversion, KDE CVS Digest, our weekly review of the code changes to KDE, was renamed to KDE Commit Digest; this week we also have a new domain at commit-digest.org. In this week's digest (all in one page): KNode rewrites article viewer, KViewShell adds basic printing support, Juk adds a cover manager and KDE4 porting continues apace. Read More

Will Stephenson is one of the attendees at the KDE PIM Event. 4 years ago he started with contributing to Kopete, the instant messaging client for KDE. His recent contributions made it possible to let Kopete communicate with Kontact. In this interview, he will tell you about Kopete and his exciting plans for the upcoming meeting. Read More

The G System is a free and open source simulation framework and virtual reality, using Qt and KDE. The recent 0.5 release adds multi-user capability, an important milestone in the history of this project. Using the G System many users can now join in the same virtual universe. Read More

Till Adam only started hacking on the KDE mail client, KMail, because he wanted some features implemented from the command-line client Mutt. Now he is one of the main developers of the KDE-PIM project, which KMail is part of. KDE Dot News caught up with Till to talk about e-mail protocols, groupware and implementing them in KDE. Read More

The wiki of QtForum.org has opened its doors again. After a long period of downtime because of spam, the QtForum.org team decided to switch to more robust wiki software. The result is that the wiki is now based on a modified version of Mediawiki. Read More

The Dutch KDE team has released a fully Dutch localized live-CD assembled jointly with the Dutch Mandriva Club. The live-CD allows you to try out KDE without installing anything and loads in Dutch by default, making it useful to demo to all those parents and business people. The CD comes shipped with a full KDE 3.3.2 release plus it includes extra applications like KMplayer. Where the CD really shines is that it includes the full set of HOWTOs and tips from the KDE Dutch documentation website. This rich set of documentation on everything KDE users of various levels will appreciate is fully localized for a Dutch speaking audience. Read More

If you've been following the news surrounding Apple's relationship with KDE developers and Apple's implementation of KHTML into Safari, then it's almost inevitable that you've developed your opinion based on false or misleading news or comments surrounding the issue. Kurt Pfeifle has authored an 18 point article (blog version), which clarifies the issue in hopes that the confusion will stop and that people will generate their opinions based on the facts... rather than a whole lot of conjecture as is currently the case. Read More

The KDE-Forum.org team has interviewed KDE developer Christian Nitschkowski (original PDF). In the past he has written a lot of software for KDE but now his focus is on something which should be very interesting for every KDE user... a feedback wizard, soon to be integrated with Kexi. Since this is KDE-Forum.org, you can comment on the interview in the forum. Read More