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This week's edition of KC KDE is out. Read about the huge scary number of KDE3 bugfixes that have emerged from the low-profile KDE III gathering, everaldo's Crystal project (with plenty of screenshots), Kicker's menu sidebar, an aRts update, the new kde-promo FAQ, Karbon moving into KOffice, and more. Read More

St. Mary's Catholic School in Rockledge, Florida has demonstrated the obvious: that KDE/GNU/Linux (KGL) is great for kids and schools. Working with volunteers from the Melbourne Linux Users Group (that's Melbourne, Florida), I.D.E.A.L. Technology (press release) and IXC Telecom, the school deployed the K12 Linux Terminal Server Project (press release), a thin client enterprise solution. The school's KGL network consists of one beefy server (dual 1-GHz Intel^®), which services 36 workstations (16 of which are dual-boot). Apparently the school has opted for KDE as the desktop, and can use rdesktop, a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client, to access MS Windows-based applications from an MS Windows terminal server. The school's report notes that "the cost per workstation was $50.00 using donated Pentium class computers". Time to talk to the local school board about saving some tax bucks! Read More

Klaus Stärk informs us that the German KDE website has announced the March 2002 App of the Month: Kate (appsy entry). As usual, the useful (German) review includes a screenshot-laden description of Kate, as well as a note by, and an interview with, its maintainer, Christoph Cullmann. Find out more about your favorite editor and the talent behind it. Read More

Come sit along our campfire, kids! In this week's installment of The People Behind KDE, we finally meet someone who not only isn't afraid to sing, but who even brought his own guitar with him! So come join us and learn a thing or two about Falk Brettschneider, famous for QextMDI and his contributions to KDevelop. Read More

For those of you waiting for KDE news from FOSDEM, Rob Kaper wrote in with a photo impression of the event. In addition, Philippe Fremy and Thomas Capricelli have provided us with their own report including links to their interviews with FOSDEM organizer Raphael Bauduin, Python author Guido van Rossum, the KOffice team, and more photos. Enjoy. Read More

Aaron J. Seigo delivers again with Kernel Cousin KDE #33. This week's summary includes talk of the KDE Usability Project, adding a mini-golf game to the KDE Games package, a resolved problem with animated GIFs, a new KConfig backend based on XML, inclusion of an improved malloc into CVS, work to include SVG icon support (konqi, 128 icons, more SVG) into KDE, and KMail configuration migration. Read More

OSNews is featuring an interesting interview with David Faure, the French KDE developer who works for Mandrake, and whose code and contributions can be found in many core elements of KDE. In this article, David talks about KDE 3's enhancements and speed improvements, the future of KWord, Konqueror, the debugging tools under Linux, and even brushes on topics such as GNOME 2, .NET, MacOSX and Mozilla. "I do think that Linux will make it on the desktop. I think it has already made it to some desktops, and will continue to improve... Read More