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This article, part of the Cooking with Linux series, covers several security related topics starting with steganography (take any message, encode it inside another message or a graphic image). The article then discusses password safes (so you don't have to remember a thousand passwords), including a detailed tutorial on KDE's own KWalletManager. Read More

Solutions Linux trade show is the French annual rendez-vous of Free Software technologies and their commercial applications. This year, it ran from February 1st to February 3rd. Like preceding years, KDE-France was present and benefited of a free booth in the "Associative Village". Read More

On February 26th 2005, the KDE Project announced the first release candidate of KDE 3.4. Compile the sources (KDE 3.4 requirements list, "Konstruct" build script), download the "Klax" i486 GNU/Linux Live-CD (375 MB) or the first contributed binary packages. More packages may follow later. Please test the new features and report all bugs so that we can identify the show-stoppers to be fixed before the final release planned for 16th March. OSdir.com is the first to have screenshots of KDE 3.4 RC 1 and tuxmachines.org shows how customizable its look is. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest (all on one page): digiKam adds a film grain plugin. Kexi adds scripting bridge and startup shortcut files. KDE 3.4 is being prepared for release. Read More

The KDE project is looking for a great new logo for our biggest event of the year: The KDE Developers and Users Conference 2005, also known as aKademy 2005. This logo will be seen everywhere including websites, on t-shirts and in magazines. kde-look is hosting the contest to find the new aKademy logo. Read More

With bug number 100,000 reported, the hard-working KDE bug tracking system reached a milestone today. However, not everyone knows what goes on behind the scenes and how to help. In this article, I take a short look at using the bug reporting system, and how you can help KDE improve. Read More

The schedule for the KDE developers room talks at FOSDEM is now online. Our final interview with the speakers is with Scott Wheeler who will be giving a talk titled "KDE 4: Beyond Hierarchical Data, The Desktop as a Searchable Web of Context". FOSDEM is this weekend, see you there. Read More

The Yzis team is glad to announce the Milestone 3 release of Yzis, the fast moving vi-compatible editor from the authors of KVim. A lot has happened since the M2 release in August 2004: many new features have been added and bugs fixed, getting us closer to the full Vim feature set. Check for yourself on the screenshots. Read More

The March 2005 Issue of Linux Magazine has a story written by our own Chris Howells about KWifiManager (PDF format). It introduces KWifiManager, tells you how to find and connect to wireless networks and how to use it for monitoring your wireless connection. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest (all on one page): Kttsd adds support for Italian Festival voices. Umbrello improves import from ArtisanSW, Visio, ArgoUML, Fujaba and NSUML. KSpread has a new insert calendar plugin. Konqueror loses its Cut/Copy/Paste buttons. KDE begins move to Subversion and discusses future roadmap. Read More