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Thanks to the hard work of Frank Karlitschek during the holiday season, we are proud to welcome KDE-Apps.org amongst our midsts. KDE-Apps.org is the new online database for KDE applications. Since the site is still very new, Frank would like to hear your suggestions for improvements. The database is also still a bit empty but you can change that by submitting the KDE applications that you have written to the site. Read More

In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: KMail gains a basic anti-spam wizard. A new version of the SSLIODevice and SSLServerSocket code. An alpha version of the Debian KDE LiveCD was imported. Speedups in khtml and kjs. And many bugfixes. Read More

Three reviews recently joined the list of KDE 3.2 reviews with most having an emphasis on the applications being new in KDE 3.2: Francesc tried it on Gentoo and states in this blog "This release is the best KDE I've ever tried". Pycs writes about his first impressions and likes it too. Finally, gooeylinux.org published a rather controversial article about the good and bad sides of KDE 3.2 Beta 2. Read More

A few days ago Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick and Benjamin Meyer, a.k.a. icefox, succeeded in making Konqueror, the KDE swiss army knife, run natively on Mac OS X. Now they have an update: KOffice, Kate, Konsole, and a few other KDE applications work natively on Mac OS X. That means, they don't use an X server, like the GUI apps such as those ported from Unix and Linux to Mac OS X by the Fink project do, but they base on the native Qt/Mac library to run KDE in the native Aqua environment. They have solved all major porting problems, with only a few rough edges left to polish. Congratulations on this milestone achievement! Read More

SLAX is a Slackware-based LiveCD. The latest release, available as a 177 MB ISO, features KDE 3.2 Beta 2 and KOffice 1.3 Beta 2. As a LiveCD similar to Knoppix in operation, you can simply boot off the CD to safely try out these new releases without disturbing your existing installation and see the future of the KDE desktop. As a dogfood exercise, I am posting this using SLAX right now! Read More

eWEEK is currently featuring an article on the UserLinux and KDE debacle. Indeed, exciting times are ahead as we forge on with our plans for both KDE::Enterprise in general and the KDE/Debian project. You've heard of cool hacks to make KIO slaves accessible on a system-wide basis, you've heard of GTK/KDE integration (don't be surprised if KDE Gimp, a.k.a. Kimp, makes an effortless return), you've heard of the new Debian tools in development, you've heard of a KDE/Debian live CD. All of this and more is coming to fruitation. See you next year! Read More

The last issue of KDE Traffic for 2003 is out: KDE Traffic #73 comes to you at the last day of the year, bringing you news ranging from the minimum necessary resolution to run KDE to displaying GNOME applications in the KMenu. Check it out! Read More

Corey Liu has written an article about running KDE 3.1 on Solaris based workstations. He covers installing KDE, using KDE and running KDE apps under the CDE environment. The article is available over at Sun's website. Some screenshots are also included. Read More

In a background article Aryan Ameri and Arash Zeini (KDE Farsi) explain the benefits of FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) for Iran and developing countries. For a trade show Knoppix 3.1 was modified in order to demonstrate KDE in Farsi language. Overall an estimated 100 million people speak this language. With the release of KDE 3.1 in January 2003, Farsi became an official language in KDE. KDE looks very interesting in Persian. Read More

In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: Java bindings are now auto-generated by the build process. You can now mount KIO slaves on the filesystem with the fuse_kio module. Karbon now has snap to grid and curve smoothing. Initial import of the new theme manager. You can now create application configuration files with KConfEdit. Read More