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A brand new alpha of the breath-taking KDE 3.1 development branch has been announced. This release sports everything from wonderful new eye candy to tons of popular new features including new and exciting "easter eggs" (aka bugs) just waiting to be discovered. Remember, this is not a stable release -- those of you concerned with stability should use KDE 3.0.2, whereas those of you who want to help KDE 3.1 be the best KDE ever should use this alpha. Kudos to Dre for writing the announcement and to the tireless Dirk Mueller for coordinating this release. Party! Read More

Kernel Cousin KDE Issue 40 is out, covering a myriad of news from the KDE mailinglists. This new issue covers KOffice Clipart, new artwork for Atlantik, printing issues, new OpenGL screensavers and the upcoming website on debunking KDE Myths. Enjoy! Read More

MozillaQuest is running a nice little story on the upcoming Tabs feature in Konqueror. "The K Desktop Environment (KDE) certainly has done lots to narrow the gap between the Linux desktop and the Microsoft Windows desktop. And the addition of tabbed-browsing to KDE's Konqueror browser is one more large step in closing that gap. In our opinion, the K Desktop Environment already is just as good as, if not better than, the MS Windows desktop." Stay tuned for the next alpha! Read More

Tux Reports is featuring a brief review of KWord 1.2beta2 particularly highlighting the popular WYSIWYG feature. "KWord launched into a beautiful layout. Since I hadn't seen any screenshots of the new layout, it caught my attention. Nice job!" The review includes some nice screenshots. Read More

A possible local root exploit affecting all versions of artswrapper (introduced in KDE 2 pre-releases) was posted late Sunday to some of the well-known security websites. The exploit only affects installations which have installed artswrapper setuid "root". A patch (GPG signature) against KDE 3.0.2 was released almost immediately (thanks to George Staikos and Dirk Mueller), and new packages are being built. In the meantime, it is strongly recommended that system administrators unset the setuid bit on artswrapper (e.g., chmod ug-s artswrapper), particularly on multi-user machines. More details, as they arise, will be posted to the KDE 3.0.2 Info Page. Read More

KDE-nl was present at Linux@work 2002 last June and they've written up an nice bilingual report on the event, complete with annotated photos. "In the morning at 8.00 AM we arrived at the Radisson Hotel. Fabrice and Rob already arranged the booth(table): at the wall you could find a poster of Konqi in A0-format, on the table there was one laptop, some Linux and KDE mascottes, KDE-flyers, a SuSE 8.0 box and a giant Tux. We also had a bust for displaying T-shirts. The laptop showed an installed SuSE 8.0 with the standard out-of-the-box KDE 3.0-desktop along with KOffice 1.2-beta1." Nice job, guys. Read More

The KDE Project today announced the availability of KDE 3.0.2, the second maintenance release of the KDE 3.0 series. Dirk Mueller, the KDE 3 release coordinator, explained that "a number of stability and useability enhancements have been backported from the active KDE 3.1 branch to the KDE 3.0 codebase and bundled in this update. We recommend that all KDE 3 users update to this newest, stable release." More details are in the announcement, or jump directly to the download directory. Congratulations to the KDE developers on another great release! And stay tuned: the first KDE 3.1 alpha release, this one complete with a slew of cool new features (such as the widely requested tabbed browsing in Konqueror), is due out next week already! Read More

As scheduled, the KWinTV rewrite has left the vapourware stage with the first alpha now available. It looks great already, and should become a killer application for those of you owning a TV card. " This release is intended as a basic demonstration of the design of the application. It provides functionality in the form of support for Xv video streams, OSS mixer (/dev/video, mixer 0), and XML channel files. It most likely only works on Linux, and in fact may only work on ia32 hardware. Camera devices may or may not work." See the Alpha 1 announcement for full details on what is and what isn't working at this point. Read More

In what started as a series on KDE versus GNOME, columnist Nicholas Petreley has concluded the run with an article that details why he feels the future for KDE/Qt is so bright. He points out a few shortcomings in KDE (like the lack of tabbed browsing in Konqueror or underlining of typos in KWord -- both in CVS!) and says he feels confident that the KDE developers will fill those gaps. "Put simply, the KDE class libraries and examples are a brilliant testimony to reusable objects done right. Features such as the sophisticated file dialog and toolbar functions are obviously a part of the standard KDE class library, which is why most KDE applications now include them. If you upgrade the file dialog, all applications that use it get upgraded automatically." Basically, it's a essay for the layman explaining why a good foundation of coding tools is important for the final product. Read More

A new information and discussion hub for KDE has been launched, called KDEnews.UNIXcode.org, or simply KDEnews. A major difference from other KDE-related sites is the publically available submission queue. Registered users decide most of the content, not the administrators. KDEnews is currently featuring a couple of announcements including a call for a new KDE Multimedia strategy meeting, and information on the upcoming LWCE 2002. Read More