The Dot reports that KDE 3.2 Alpha-1 is available on the main FTP and more mirrors will be picking it up soon. This source release includes KDevelop 3.0a6 among other goodies. Use Konstruct to build.
A recent study by analyst Evans Data concluded that KDE has a small edge, preferred over Gnome among Linux developers 65% vs 56% (with some respondents using both).
Submitted by C. Graham & C. Drane 2003-07-29KDE41 Comments
The KDE Project announced KDE 3.1.3 today. It's the third maintenance release of the successful KDE 3.1.x series and ships with many bugfixes and improved translations. KDE 3.1.3 also contains a fix for a possible http authentication leak in the http referrer header. Info, changelog.
Matthias Ettrich is the creator of the KDE desktop environment. At LinuxJournal, Aleksey Dolya interviews Matthias about the process of creating KDE and what he's up to these days.
According to Ralf Nolden, the maintainer of KDevelop, Kiosk mode allows an administrator to "lock down KDE so much that it is practically impossible for the users to mess up their configuration." Read the article at NewsFactor.
"Variety is the spice of life for the Linux desktop of today. For sheer speed and few features you can run a minimalist desktop like BlackBox. At the upper end of the scale is KDE 3.1. This full-blown desktop offers advanced features, extreme customization and tight application integration."At LinuxPlanet.
Vendors working to parlay the server room successes of Linux into a spot on the mainstream corporate desktop have a powerful ally in KDE Project developers, who've been hard at work extending the performance, polish and functionality of KDE. Read the mini-review at eWeek. Update: Ammai just published their own review about KDE 3.1 under Knoppix.
An effort has been started for closer cooperation between the KDE and GNOME usability teams. Additionally, you can read this long article about the corporate KDE. Also, several companies have joined to launch a consortium to promote Linux for desktop computers. The consortium's goal will be to raise awareness of desktop Linux and to speed its adoption, the organization plans to announce today.
Submitted by Wheaty, Philipp Frenzel 2003-01-27KDE96 Comments
KDE 3.1 is out, announcement here, the source packages are linked on the 3.1 info page, and are also available in stable/3.1 directory on the KDE FTP site.
"As the second victim in the TinyMinds interview series we have picked the SlicKer project as our target. SlicKer aims to someday replace Kicker in KDE with its own more task-oriented approach. Today we talk to one of it's developers; keyboard cowboy Shamyl Zakarika." Read the interview here. Our Take: I worked with Shamyl back in the early BeUnited days, just right after Deej and myself founded it (the goals for BU were different back then), and Shamyl was one of the very few developers (a total of 130+) who actually delivered what he said he would. I have faith on Shamyl's ability to deliver great apps.
A creative team has posted some concept art and mockups about the creation of an alternative to Kicker, the KDE desktop and taskbar, named Slicker. In the meantime, KDE 3.0.5a was released, incorporating the latest security fixes.
"The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice 1.2.1. KOffice 1.2.1 is a stability and enhancement release, with the principal improvements over KOffice 1.2, released last September, occurring in the spreadsheet program (KSpread)" Read more at KDE.org.
The much-anticipated release of KDE 3.1, originally scheduled for this week, has been delayed, most likely until early next month. In the meantime, what was to have been KDE 3.1 (with some of the security audit completed) has been re-tagged as KDE 3.1 RC5 and is now available for testing.
The KDE Project just released KDE 3.0.5. According to the SuSE README file for KDE 3.0.5, this is not exactly a full release of its own, as only the kdebase and kdelibs packages were affected from the (mostly security) updates (the rest of the packages have very minor changes). Users who already have 3.0.4 installed, will only need to re-install these two packages, while users using older versions, will have to do a complete installation.
