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In his column "KDE: From the Source" at O'Reilly's OSDir.com George Staikos details in the current issue what is to be expected from the upcoming 3.4 version of KDE and includes a few screenshots. KDE 3.4 Alpha 1 is planned to be published within the next days. Read More

I have started a series of KDevelop related articles. I call them "KDevelop TechNotes" and plan to publish all useful information about the IDE - tips and tricks, use cases, tutorials, etc. Everyone is welcome to share KDevelop knowledge by writing their own issues of technotes. I will be pleased to publish them on the project website. Read More

After months of heavy development we are pleased to announce the release of Konversation 0.15! Konversation is a simple and easy to use IRC client. New features include a brand-new Kontact integration, better KDE HIG compliance, DCC rewritten with KIO, support for SSL IRC servers and much more! Read More

During this summer while aKademy was filling our minds and consuming our time other things were cooking in the Dutch KDE community. Some people from KDE-NL, the Dutch KDE community, were offered the opportunity to write a book about Linux and KDE. This month the book 'Linux in 10 minuten' was published and officially launched by Pearson Education Benelux and KDE-NL. Read More

In its last and upcoming issues Linux Magazine has again published several KDE articles of which are many available online in PDF format: aKregator is a RSS/Atom feed reader and introduced to their readers. KHotKeys allows to add mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts to your desktop. Another story details how to configure your login environment with KDM and GDM. Finally, don't miss Konqi's horoscope for 2005. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest (experimental layout): Extended password dialog can define length and strength thresholds. Dell laptop buttons plug-in for KMilo. As-you-type spellchecking with aspell. KAddressbook import/export filter GMX addressbook format. X-Face support for KMail and KNode. New blogging resource for KOrganizer. Read More

OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 with KDE integration is now available for download. It also features a lot of other improvements over the stock OOo (including the GNOME integration bits; but do not be afraid, it does not link against Gtk+ in KDE, and vice versa), because it is built from the ooo-build codebase. Read More

KDE-Look has just completed our Distro Wallpaper Challenge. We are pleased at the level of involvement as we have seen 42 distro themed wallpapers submitted in just 11 days. The KDE-Look community voted for their favorite wallpaper for each distro. We had 12 winners and a ton (907,184.74 grams) of great new artwork. Read More

The Kst development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kst 1.0.0, the first mature release of the advanced data viewing application for KDE. In addition to data viewing and plotting, Kst features real-time support for streaming data, and also includes basic analysis functionality. Kst is presently used by a variety of scientific and industry projects worldwide. Read More

Open for Business associate editor Eduardo Sánchez interviewed Scott Wheeler, creator and lead developer of JuK and a member of the KDE Multimedia team to find out where the KDE multimedia department is headed in general, and concerning a replacement for aRts, more specifically. Read More