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John H. Terpstra, Samba core developer and author of many books including "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide", and Martin Konold from the KDE project offer during the
KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy" in Ludwigsburg, Germany, tutorials about the deployment of the multi-location groupware solution Kolab 2, the OpenLDAP directory server and Samba 3. Read More

Enjoy this week's KDE CVS-Digest: Mostly bugfixes this week, including fixes for the 3.3 release. Digikam implements EXIF based rotation in image editor. Krita adds gradient support. KOffice can now save styles to OASIS.
Security fixes in khtml. Read More

For the third interview in our series previewing aKademy we approached Waldo Bastian, whose most recent major project has been the Kiosk framework. Tom Chance and Fabrice Mous talked to him about Kiosk, the new Kiosk Admin Tool, Linux on the corporate desktop and what we can expect from his talk at aKademy. Don't miss the previous interviews with Matthias Ettrich and Nils Magnus. Read More

Three security advisories have been issued today for KDE. The first advisory concerns the unsafe handling of KDE's temporary directory in certain circumstances. The second advisory relates to the unsafe creation of temporary files by KDE 3.2.x's dcopserver. The third advisory is about a frame injection vulnerability in Konqueror as earlier reported by Heise Online and Secunia. Read More

We have already received a lot of feedback to our KDE 3.3 Betas, so we can release a public Release Candidate. We want to have this tested as soon as possible, so we didn't wait for vendor binaries. So please test the sources if you have experience in this (or use Konstruct). You can download the Release Candidate from download.kde.org. Read More

Continuing the series of articles previewing KDE's World Summit, aKademy (running from August 21st to 29th), Tom Chance interviewed Matthias Ettrich, the founder of the KDE project, the creator of the LyX document-processor, and an employee of Trolltech. At aKademy he will be talking about how to design intelligent, Qt-style APIs. I asked him for his thoughts about the status of the KDE project, its achievements, and what he is looking forward to in aKademy. You can read the previous interview with Nils Magnus of LinuxTag here. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: KTracer, a realtime execution path tracer was committed to kdenonbeta. Kexi can save table design changes, and the MySQL driver was reintroduced. KFormDesigner, part of Kexi, is now a KPart. Krita adds dynamic brush scaling. kdetv includes a number of new filters: color inversion, chromakill, mirror image, sharpness. Kifi now shows found network details in real time. Read More

Another LinuxWorldExpo has ended in the lovely San Francisco, and the KDE project was proud to have a booth and present the equally lovely desktop environment. Also available is a small photo gallery of the event. Read More

A new issue of the series "Application of the Month" has been released. It covers Konversation and interviews its maintainer Dario Abatianni. Konversation is a user friendly IRC client for KDE. You can read it in Dutch, English and German. Read More