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As a followup to our previous Novell/SUSE article, we have further good news. Following the completion of the acquisition of SUSE by Novell, SUSE CEO Richard Seibt, who had previously expressed a strong commitment to KDE, has been promoted to president of Novell-EMEA and is now in a position to not only to maintain SUSE's strong KDE support but also to help deploy it more widely around the world. Even more interesting, SUSE R&D Vice President Markus Rex will now be responsible for Novell's Linux desktop activities and not solely Miguel and Nat as previously hinted. com.com is reporting further details. Read More

FedoraNEWS.org features a Quick Introduction to KDE 3.2 Installation and a positive Review of KDE 3.2: "My first impression is 'wow'." The author confesses that he hadn't the time to review every improvement and new application of KDE 3.2 yet but concludes "To sum it up, with so many enhancements, an upgrade is worth your time." Besides news, HowTos, reviews and tips FedoraNEWS.ORG also offers tutorials like this nice Flash tutorial how to use K3b to burn CDs and DVDs. Read More

Two critical bugs crept into the just released version of KMail. One is related to POP filters and the other to spam filtering - both cause mail loss! They are fixed in CVS and patches are linked on the KDE 3.2 Info Page. The distributors have been asked to update their binary packages. Read More

Trolltech today released Qt 3.3 which among other things features improved .NET support, full 64-bit support, IPv6 and backend support for two more databases. Also new is the -dlopen-opengl configure switch, which is very useful for prelinking Qt and KDE apps against the -PIC compiled nVidia drivers and support for Xft2 client side fonts on X servers without the RENDER extension. In light of the release, OSNews features an article with TrollTech's CEO, Haavard Nord. Nord says that he sees Linux strengthen its position in both business computing and embedded systems, while he forsees Qtopia and Linux taking over PDAs and Smartphones in the next few years. Read More

Today the KDE Project released KDE 3.2. It is the result of a combined year-long effort by hundreds of individuals and corporations from around the globe. For packages, please visit the KDE 3.2 info page. At the moment binary packages for Conectiva Linux, Slackware (9.0, 9.1) and SUSE Linux (8.2, 9.0) are listed. Or compile the source either manually or with the help of Konstruct after reading the KDE 3.2 Requirements list. All changes can be found in the detailed KDE 3.2 change log or continue to read about the highlights. Read More

In this interview, Jan Holesovsky, author and leader of the KDE.OpenOffice.org project, now employed by SUSE, gives us a glimpse of what to expect in terms of OpenOffice.org integration on your KDE desktop. The future sure looks bright! Read More

We were notified about a small article about Kile in the recent issue of c't, Germany's largest IT magazine. Check the table of content online, and/or buy the magazine and check out page 55. The Independent Qt Tutorial has been updated with two completely new chapters about file handling and XML and numerous small fixes. Eric Laffoon, the project leader of Quanta Plus, has been asked by techDigest to do an interview. They are collecting some questions for this interview as well. Wilbert Berendsen reported that the website www.kde.nl has undergone a metamorphosis to serve the KDE community in Belgium and the Netherlands much better. More on websites: Shiyu Tang mentioned on the kde-www mailinglist about the launch of a KDE-China website. Read More

Thomas Diehl has created a new language project branch for a Plattdüütsch (Low Saxon) translation of KDE (ISO code: nds). The language is spoken in Northern Germany, the Netherlands and even in parts of the Mennonite Community in the United States and Paraguay. There are several millions of Plattdüütsch speakers, but Low Saxon -- stuck in the middle of German, English (Anglo-Saxons!) and Dutch -- is on the decline in favour of official languages such as German or Dutch. Read More

KDE has wrapped up another successful visit to Linux World Expo, this year at the Javits Convention Center in New York. For three days, 10 KDE developers and a few others helped deal with a huge amount of interest from the crowd, showing off the latest and greatest in KDE 3.2. This year's show was thought to be at least twice as good as last year's, and a great time was had by all. The fun didn't stop after the expo either, with several dinners providing plenty of time for spirited arguments and the occasional hacking session. A new application for KDE was conceived (rss syndication), as well as a 5-minute hack ("Google Klip") which allows a Google search on the current Klipper selection to be invoked with a single keyboard shortcut. Read More