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The KOffice team is happy to bring you the fifth bugfix release of KOffice. KOffice 1.3.5 features a new language (Breton), the PDF import filter includes a stronger security fix and there are also a few fixes for the OpenOffice.org Impress Export Filter. See the release notes and the list of changes for full details. Read More

K3b is a CD and DVD burning program for Linux. This online chapter from the book 'Point & Click Linux!' by Robin Miller will help you get started with this useful program right away. Read More

KDE::Enterprise is featuring an interesting new article [pdf, 2Mb] from Novell consultant Adrián Malaguti in which he explains step-by-step how to apply restrictive policies to a Novell Linux Desktop 9 KDE desktop, manage Linux users from eDirectory, authenticate through LDAP and store user's data and profiles in a remote NFS server for centralized management. A must-read for anyone who wants to roll out KDE in their organisation. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest (experimental layout): Kicker rewrite merged into HEAD for further testing. New Kontact summary plugin for dates and holidays. kttsd adds support for Festival 2.0 MultiSyn voices. KDevelop has a new Ruby source code debugger. Read More

Sirtaj Singh Kang and I will be presenting talks at this year's Linux Bangalore conference at the Indian Institute for Science. The fair runs December 1 - 3 and will feature tracks on various topics including Linux on the desktop. I'll be doing a talk on searching and contextual linkage and Taj will be presenting a roadmap for KDE's future. Read More

Gone are the days when KDE users would lament for an XMMS replacement. With the likes of amaroK (down) and JuK on the scene, it would seem that KDE Multimedia is gaining new fans. Which brings us to this user's opinion piece on amaroK (coral). It may be illogical... but at least it has screenshots. It'll be interesting to see what KDE Multimedia 4.0 looks like. Read More

Ian Geiser and I traveled to Monterrey, Mexico to attend the KDE booth in the ExpoLinux 2004 Business Summit (1st to 3rd November). The Expo was located in a place called Cintermex, specially adapted for conferences and expos. There were like 25 booths with local business showing business solutions. The biggers being Novell, IBM and Hewlett Packard. We were in a normal booth, and the fact that ours was one of the most visited was very interesting. Read More

Some time ago an icon contest was hosted on KDE-Look.org to find a new icon for KPDF. Since then, we have interviewed the jury, and mentioned KPDF Coolness here on the dot. The jury had a tough time deciding on a winning icon, but they have finally chosen the icon to be used in the next version of KPDF. However, before we reveal to you the winner we would like to mention some of the other runners-up. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest (experimental layout): KJSEmbed Qt events now work on Windows. kdm adds themes. Media kio slave now can use HAL. Kate improves Java and Perl syntax highlighting. KWallet adds search, empty password support, and XML data import. Read More

Germany/France-based publishing house bomots.de announced this month the German book "K3b kompakt - das offizielle Anwenderhandbuch". This book talks about the famous CD and DVD burning application K3b which is part of the Extra Gear collection. *** Read More