Yesterday at 10:00 AM the president of the KDE e.V. Eva Brucherseifer welcomed the audience of the presentation track at the KDE anniversary event at the Technische Akademie Esslingen in Ostfildern near Stuttgart, Germany. Keynote speakers were Matthias Ettrich, founder of the KDE project, as well as Klaus Knopper of Knoppix fame. During their presentations they looked back at KDE's successful past 10 years and they offered their thoughts about the future of KDE and Free Software. Note: I'd like to congratulate KDE with their 10 year anniversary. Here's to another 10 years!
Post a Comment
Member since:
2005-07-06
Member since:
2006-01-02
KDE is by far the BEST DE to exist for the Linux/Unix world, so good, it even spawned the distant second DE - Gnome (although that was namely for philosophical/licensing reasons which are now complete mute points).
Keep up the great work KDE developers, I look forward to the next TWO years with where dreams will come true (KDE 4, Plasma etc...)
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-07-06
Distant second? The latest Desktop Linux Survey (2006) gives KDE a 37.7% of the market against Gnome's 35.1%. I would not speak of "distant second."
In the previous year KDE had about two thirds of all the votes. Maybe some Gnome users thought it would be a good time to vote ;-).
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:
2005-08-20
Cho Sung-Jae told us that the Korean KDE team had a party to celebrate KDE's 10th anniversary! His blog entry including pictures of the very nice birthday cake can be found at:
http://socmaster.homelinux.org/~jachin/57
I heard that other countries/local KDE groups were about to celebrate as well. I hope we'll see photos :-)
Member since:2005-07-12
Member since:2006-08-09
Member since:
2006-01-16
Member since:
2005-12-09
Member since:
2006-03-10
but anyway... Kongrats, KDE! Hope you don't wake up with a bad 'Kater' [=hangover... also means 'tomcat', bizarrely]
Personally I celebrated by installing KDE 3.5.5 (on Gentoo, which pretty much took up the whole day!) App startup is just blazingly fast now, and seems to get a little nippier with every release.
Kuestion: Why is the stock icon-set not called 'Krystal'?
'Crystal' never fit anyway, if you ask me. So bright, primary-coloured and cheerful - surely it should have been 'Kamp'?
Member since:
2005-07-06
Member since:
2005-07-06
Member since:
2005-07-28
Member since:
2006-08-18
Member since:
2005-12-31
Member since:
2006-09-21
Oh my god, KDE is going to start rebelling in a couple of years. 
I may not be a fan of desktop environments, but it is great to see that these complex open source projects are starting to measure their age in decade(s). It is a testament to the dedication to longevity and quality in the open source community.
Keep up the good work, and may you have more fruitful decades ahead of you.
Member since:
2006-05-28
Member since:
2006-06-01
Member since:
2006-08-15
Congratulations to KDE and Qt people!!! I can't believe how great they are, I been using KDE for years and developing Qt/C++ apps for years, is been a joy using KDE and developing apps for it and I can't wait for KDE 4 and all the benefits that will bring to us! Congratulations KDE!!!!!
Member since:
2005-07-06
Sometimes I just can't keep wondering how far and how nice KDE has become during these years. Thinking back how KDE looked and how KDE worked at the beginnings shows really how far they've come. And they keep on going, and all I can say is Good work, Nice job, Keep it coming !
