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Title: KDE Launches Version 4.0

Author: Taft, Darryl K Article Type: Company
Source: eWeek, v25 n5 pD1(2) Publication Date: Feb 11, 2008
  ISSN: 1530-6283
URL of Publication: http://www.eweek.com

Developers from the KDE Community made news with Release 4 of its K Desktop Environment in January, and plans for future releases will keep the international technology team busy. The team plans to have minor releases every month, starting with KDE 4.0.1 at the end of January. Perhaps most significantly, developers say support for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X are on the horizon, which could end up being a huge shift for open-source software. KDE 4.1 is expected to be ready by July, and by then, it should be a finished release with libraries and applications KDE can port to Mac OS X. With KDE 4.1, it should be possible to run Apple OS X desktop widgets inside Linux. KDE 4 Desktop sports some new capabilities including a new desktop interface, support for advanced graphical effects via the KDE Windows manager, a new file manager (Dophin), and a new document viewer (Okular). Users of KDE 3.5 are not being left behind, and an upgrade that contains an enterprise version of Kontact will be made available as KDE 3.5.9.

Companies:
Apple Inc KDE Project
Microsoft Corp

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