Submitted by 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!
Well done to everyone who has every helped out with KDE. I’ve enjoyed using KDE ever since I finally discovered Linux and am excited at what the future holds
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…)
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.”
However, congratulations to KDE developers for their work, I’m eager to try KDE4.
Edited 2006-10-15 12:28
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 ;-).
Or some kde users no longer care about the votes.
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 🙂
The cake looked good. What the heck is that stuff on the last pic? Maybe a cultural thing, but I’d skip that too and go straight for the cake! j/k
>> The cake looked good. What the heck is that stuff on the last pic? Maybe a cultural thing, but I’d skip that too and go straight for the cake! j/k
If I read it well it’s pork (samgyeobsal).
Under it is some kind of pink rice cake. (punhongsaik tteok).
…was Klaus Knopper named after KDE or otherwise?
Kongratulations, KDE!
Congrats to KDE…
But I m a GNOME fan…
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’?
Congratulations to the KDE development teamn. I’d like to give a shout out to the KDE developer who created KSokoban. If there is one game that will have me occupied for hours in a love/hate relationship it has to be KSokoban.
Viva La Free software!
Kongratulations to KDE and specially to Trolltech for making it possible.
I tip my hat to Trolltech and KDE team for 10 years of excellence. May their next 10 years be as bright and successful.
that’s a big sucsess for an open source project!
Go on KDE! Go on Gnome, go on every open source project.
I’m sure, open source is our all future
… And here we go with the 4th installement
Get the Penguin Going!
Happy birthday!
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.
KDE goes from strength to strength. Thank you so much KDE team for all the joy you have given to me in desktop computing
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!!!!!
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 !