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Rosegarden 1.0pre1 has been released. Musicians and tuxedoed noise-makers, please give it a try and help iron out the last few nasty bugs so we can release 1.0 and have a party. To coincide with this is an interview of its authors on oreilly.com by Howard Wen. We discuss the problems of sound on Linux and the choice to use KDE. "KDE provided us with a development framework that let us concentrate on Rosegarden issues, not KDE ones." Read More

A security advisory was issued today for a vulnerability in Konqueror's handling of Java applets. The issue was reported to security@kde.org by heise Security after a report of a similar vulnerability in the Opera web browser. All versions of KDE up to KDE 3.3.1 inclusive are affected. KDE 3.3.2 is not affected. Read More

A new issue of the series "Application of the Month" has been released. It covers an application from the KDE PIM suite called KPilot. Besides the application review we interviewed its current maintainer Adriaan de Groot. KPilot is a replacement for the Palm Desktop software from Palm Inc, which makes your Palm/Palm Pilot/Visor handheld capable of exchanging information with your KDE powered computer. If you want to help us creating this monthly series or you want to translate it to your own language please contact us. Enjoy App of the Month in Dutch, English and German. Read More

As you might have heard, KDE 3.4 will support SVG wallpapers. That's why KDE-Look.org has announced the SVG Wallpaper Challenge, where 4 wallpapers will be selected to be bundled with the KDE 3.4 release. There are actual prizes to be won, and the first place winner will be able to chose between a nVIDIA GeForce FX5700LE video card or a 120GB hard drive, graciously provided by Core Function. The second place winner will receive a t-shirt featuring their wallpaper, provided by Revelinux Gear. Be sure to check the KDE-Look.org website for the guidelines and rules. This contest closes on December 31st. Read More

The speakers list for FOSDEM 2005 has been released with many great names including some prominent KDE developers like Matthias Ettrich, Alexander Dymo and Harald Fernengel. This year you can again submit your questions for interviews to be published later on the FOSDEM website. Read More

In the latest addition to an interesting series of long articles called "Free as in Freedom" Adam Engel discusses the "New Linux", a Linux that is no longer just for 'hackers'. Included is an extensive email interview with George Staikos about KDE and its contribution to this development. Read More

With great pleasure I would like announce creation of the kde-graphics-devel mailing list. The list is developer oriented and will be the central place for all eye-candy development within KDE. Developers and researchers from the computer graphics field are welcomed and strongly encouraged to subscribe. Everything computer graphics related will be on topic - that includes developments within the X.org community, uses of OpenGL within a desktop environment or simply sharing your latest computer graphics research findings with others. Read More

Three security advisories have been issued by the KDE Security Team over the last few days for three distinct vulnerabilities that have been found in KDE: Plain Text Password Exposure, KFax libtiff Vulnerabilities and a Konqueror Window Injection Vulnerability. Read More

As part of its Grumpy Editor series, LWN.net looks at PDF viewers including the KDE applications KGhostview and KPDF. The author was impressed by KGhostview and sees a bright future for KPDF. Read More