KDE.news
Torvalds Lauds KDE
Thursday, 30 August 2001
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Dre
During a panel discussion at LinuxWorld Expo here in San Francisco, CA, Linus Torvalds said that the biggest development in Linux this past year has been the desktop, as reported in this story. "Within the last year, it's progressed past the eye-candy stage," he said during a panel discussion at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, praising the KDE user interface and higher-level applications such as KOffice. Another happy KDE user :-).
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KOffice 1.1 Rolls Out
Wednesday, 29 August 2001
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Dre
After a series of three betas and one release candidate, the KDE
Project used the occasion of the first day of the Linux World Expo
in San Francisco, CA to
announce
(alternate with fixed
table) the much-anticipated stable release of KOffice 1.1. KOffice
is a free, Open Source,
integrated office suite demonstrating the richness and power of the KDE
development environment. The announcement contains links to the
source and binary packages as well as a good deal of information about
the current features of the KOffice packages. A candid assessment by
yours truly follows.
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New IOSlave To Access Freenet In Konqueror
Tuesday, 28 August 2001
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Mmoeller-Herrmann
A new KDE IOSlave enabling easy access to Freenet has been announced by Jay Oliveri in this message to kde-devel.
Freenet is a large-scale peer-to-peer network which pools the power of member computers around the world to create a massive virtual information store open to anyone to freely publish or view information of all kinds. Screenshots of the IOSlave in action can be found here and here.
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KC KDE Issue #20
Saturday, 25 August 2001
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Dre
Aaron J. Seigo is back with
another issue of Kernel Cousin
KDE, Issue #20 for Aug. 10. Due to Zack's vacation, the issue
is temporarily being hosted
here. Check it
out for stories on continuing efforts to improve
Konqueror's support for EMCAScript (JavaScript),
security issues when using webform completion, efforts to create SCP and
SFTP KIOSlaves, and much more.
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First review of KDE 2.2
Friday, 17 August 2001
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Mmoeller-Herrmann
There is a nice and favorable review of KDE 2.2 available here.
The author does make some mistakes and some propositions that do not seem too clueful (Gecko instead of KHTML? Try KMozilla..), but it's still a nice read.
Read MoreKDE 2.2 Ships (Visit an FTP Server Near You)
Wednesday, 15 August 2001
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Dre
After some delay caused by a severe hardware failure on KDE's ftp server,
the KDE Project has announced
the official release of KDE 2.2. This release brings a lot of goodies,
including: faster startup times (using the experimental
objprelink
method) and performance; numerous improvements to HTML rendering
and JavaScript support; the addition of IMAP support (including SSL and
TLS) to KMail; a new plugin-based print architecture with integrated
filter and page layout capabilities; a number of new plugins for Konqueror
(including a Babelfish translator, an image gallery generator, an HTML
validator and a web archiver); native iCalendar support in KOrganizer; and
a new personalization wizard. Compaq
has also announced the addition of KDE to
Tru64. Time to tell the boss to forget XP, and use KDE (hmmmm, back in my college days that would have made a nice chant: 'Forget XP, use KDE', . . .).
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Dot Down, Master Down, Newsforge on Largo
Tuesday, 14 August 2001
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Numanee
The dot was down again this weekend as many of you had noticed,
and while I myself was blissfully enjoying Halifax. This time it was the result of somebody exploiting a security hole in our apache configuration and DoS'ing us in the process. We've closed up the problem, and hopefully we will go forward with our plans to provide better availability in the future. In worse news, master.kde.org, one of the key KDE servers that handles mail, mailing lists, KDE FTP, several websites, and some other duties has been unreachable for some time now -- word on the street is that the machine has suffered a big harddrive crash over at Uni-Tuebingen. As a result of this, primary KDE communications have been cut, packagers can't upload the binary packages for KDE 2.2, and inevitably the KDE 2.2 official release has been delayed. Hang in there folks, hardworking KDE people are busy migrating essential services over to other servers. In more fun news, Newsforge is running some interesting coverage of the Linux/KDE deployment by the City of Largo, Florida, that we featured on the dot some time ago. (as seen on Slashdot)
Other tidbits that may be of interest: KMonop has now been renamed to Atlantik, and Otter wrote in with the good news that kde.themes.org is not dead but simply undergoing a big upgrade. Get ready to submit those KDE2 themes!
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KDE Kiosk Mode HOWTO
Tuesday, 14 August 2001
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Pfehrenbacher
After two years of working with KDE, we think it is now time to share the results of our efforts to create a restricted KDE as part of our Linux-based thin client project that is now nearing completion. A write-up of our design and strategy is available as well as the patches that we used to customize KDE to our needs.
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KC KDE Issue 19 is Out
Saturday, 11 August 2001
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Tbutler
It looks like Aaron J. Seigo is at it again with another interesting double issue of Kernel Cousin KDE. This issue covers the KDE Usability Project, speed enhancements, Konqi improvements, what's ahead for KDE 3.0, and more. Check it out here.
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KDE 2.2 Tagged, KDE 3.0 Branch Opened
Monday, 6 August 2001
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Dre
Waldo Bastian, the KDE
2.2 release coordinator, has tagged KDE 2.2 for final release. Though
KDE 2.2.0 was scheduled for release today, it has been
slightly delayed to increase stability and speed. The current
schedule is to release KDE 2.2.0 next Monday, August 13. Future plans
include a KDE 2.2.1 bugfix/translation release, scheduled for September
2001. But the main development activity will occur in the KDE 3.0 branch,
which will be based on Qt 3.x and is scheduled for release early next year. Congratulations to all KDE developers for reaching yet another important milestone. Waldo's
announcement follows.
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