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The KDE Project is proud to announce an exclusive preview of the book 'Practical Qt' written by Jesper K. Pedersen and Matthias Kalle Dalheimer at the KDE World Summit - aKademy. Read More

George Staikos is away at the moment but today I published the first of a bi-weekly column at O'Reilly's OSDir.com of what I hope are many insightful and informative articles by George on issues and happenings from the KDE project. Naturally, the first concerns the release of KDE 3.3. Read More

The Conference of KDE Developers and Contributors finished a few days ago, and we are now happy to announce a collection of reports, videos, slides and notes from presentations, as well as plenty of photo galleries from those attending the KDE World Summit - aKademy. There are full reports on day one (Saturday) and day two (Sunday) on Newsforge. You can also find transcripts and slides from many of the talks on the schedule (thanks go to Jonathan Riddell for the transcripts). The video stream archives can be found here, courtesy of Fluendo. Attendees have also started to add their photo albums to this wiki page. Those attending aKademy are invited to add notes to this wiki page, their photos to the other wiki page, and speakers are asked to send their slides to the press team with the word "press" in the subject of your email. Also a lot of developers seem to blog about aKademy as well. Read More

To celebrate the start of the CodeMarathon event at the KDE World Summit 2004, the KDE Project and Knoppix proudly announce Knoppix 3.6, dubbed 'aKademy Edition'. Last-minute bugs were fixed, and the finished version demonstrated exclusively in an aKademy tutorial on Knoppix, indicative of the strong relationship between the Knoppix and KDE developer and user communities. Read More

A security advisory has been issued for a cross-domain cookie injection vulnerability. The vulnerability is limited to hosts under certain country specific domains such as the British .ltd.uk domain and the Indian .firm.in domain. KDE 3.3 already contains a fix for this issue. Read More

The aKademy Team is excited to announce a set of live audio and video streams covering the KDE Community World Summit 2004, code-named "aKademy", taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany from August 21st to 29th. Those who cannot attend in person can now watch or listen to what is going on over the Internet, thanks to Fluendo, a GStreamer-based streaming media company. Read on for full details. Read More

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the first release candidate for the upcoming Scribus 1.2. The Scribus team urges all users and distros to use this latest release and test thoroughly. The Scribus 1.2 stable release, planned for later this summer, encapsulates over a year of development building on the original 1.0 release. Already, Scribus is being used in commercial settings including a new weekly newspaper launched this spring. The Scribus Team will be presenting at aKademy on using KDE and Scribus. Read More

The KDE Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of KDE 3.3, the fourth major release of the award-winning KDE3 desktop platform. Over the past six months, hundreds of applications and desktop components have been enhanced by a community of developers, with a particular focus on integration of components. Read More

In his latest "Cooking with Linux", Marcel Gagné covers a number of applications for monitoring and connecting to wireless access points, including KWiFiManager, the wireless LAN manager for KDE. Read all about it in "The Wireless Kitchen". Read More