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KDE is an international technology team that creates Free Software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE4's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. More...

Latest Announcements

KDE 4.1.2 released.
On 3rd October 2008, the KDE community released KDE 4.1.2 codenamed "Codename", KDE 4.1.2 is the second bugfix, translation and performance update to the KDE 4.1 series, featuring numerous improvements in various parts of KDE's applications and workspace.

KDE 3.5.10 released.
On 26th August 2008, the KDE community released the tenth update for the stable version of KDE. This release features updates to Kicker, KDE3's panel, fixes for KPDF and as with every stable KDE release, translation updates.

KDE 4.1 Released
On 29th July 2008, The KDE Community released KDE 4.1.0. This release is the second feature release of the KDE 4 series, sporting new applications and newly developed features on top of the Pillars of KDE4. KDE 4.1 is the first KDE4 release to contain the Personal Information Management suite KDE-PIM with its E-Mail client KMail, the planner KOrganizer, Akregator, the RSS feed reader, KNode, the newsgroup reader and many more components integrated into the Kontact shell. Furthermore, the new desktop shell Plasma, introduced in KDE 4.0, has matured to the point where it can replace the KDE 3 shell for most casual users. Like with our previous release much time has been devoted to improving the framework and underlying libraries on which KDE is built.

KDE and Wikimedia Collaborate
On 4th April 2008, the KDE e.V. and Wikimedia Germany announced their collaboration. At the same time, KDE e.V. opened its first office in Frankfurt, Germany.

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