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KDE Software Compilation 4.5.4 / 4.6 Beta 1
KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations.
It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system.
KDE is a network transparent contemporary desktop environment for UNIX workstations. KDE seeks to fill the need for an easy to use desktop for Unix workstations, similar to the desktop environments found under the MacOS or Microsoft Windows.
We believe that the UNIX operating system is the best operating system available today. In fact UNIX has been the undisputed choice of the information technology professional for many years. When it comes to stability, scalability and openness there is no competition to UNIX. However, the lack of an easy to use contemporary desktop environment for UNIX has prevented UNIX from finding its way onto the desktops of the typical computer user in offices and homes.
UNIX dominates the server market and is the preferred computing platform for computing professional and scientists. Without UNIX the internet would not be. But UNIX did not address the needs of the average computer user.
This fact is particularly unfortunate since a number of implementations of UNIX (Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD etc.) are freely available on the internet. All of which are of exceptional quality and stability.
KDE The Desktop Environment
With KDE there is now an easy to use contemporary desktop environment available for UNIX. Together with a free implementation of UNIX such as GNU/Linux, UNIX/KDE constitutes a completely free and open computing platform available to anyone free of charge including its source code for anyone to modify. While there will always be room for improvement we believe to have delivered a viable alternative to some of the more commonly found and commercial operating systems/desktops combinations available today. It is our hope that the combination UNIX/KDE will finally bring the same open, reliable, stable and monopoly free computing to the average computer user that scientist and computing professionals world-wide have enjoyed for years.
KDE The Application Development Framework
Authoring applications under UNIX/X11 used to be an extremely difficult and tedious process. KDE recognizes the fact that a computing platform is only as good as the amount of first class applications available to the users of that particular platform. In view of these circumstances the KDE Project has developed a first rate compound document application framework, implementing the latest advances in framework technology and thus positioning itself in direct competition to such popular development frameworks as for example Microsoft's MFC/COM/ActiveX technology. KDE's KParts compound document technology enables developers to quickly create first rate applications implementing cutting edge technology.
KDE The Office Application Suite
Leveraging the KDE application development framework a great number of applications have been built for the K Desktop Environment. A selection of those applications is contained in the KDE base distribution. At this moment KDE is developing an office application suite based on KDE's KParts technology consisting of a spread-sheet, a presentation application, an organizer, a news client and more. KPresenter, KDE's presentation application was successfully used at many presentations.
What's New in This Release:
Price: Free
Size: 700MB
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KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations.
It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system.
KDE is a network transparent contemporary desktop environment for UNIX workstations. KDE seeks to fill the need for an easy to use desktop for Unix workstations, similar to the desktop environments found under the MacOS or Microsoft Windows.
We believe that the UNIX operating system is the best operating system available today. In fact UNIX has been the undisputed choice of the information technology professional for many years. When it comes to stability, scalability and openness there is no competition to UNIX. However, the lack of an easy to use contemporary desktop environment for UNIX has prevented UNIX from finding its way onto the desktops of the typical computer user in offices and homes.
UNIX dominates the server market and is the preferred computing platform for computing professional and scientists. Without UNIX the internet would not be. But UNIX did not address the needs of the average computer user.
This fact is particularly unfortunate since a number of implementations of UNIX (Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD etc.) are freely available on the internet. All of which are of exceptional quality and stability.
KDE The Desktop Environment
With KDE there is now an easy to use contemporary desktop environment available for UNIX. Together with a free implementation of UNIX such as GNU/Linux, UNIX/KDE constitutes a completely free and open computing platform available to anyone free of charge including its source code for anyone to modify. While there will always be room for improvement we believe to have delivered a viable alternative to some of the more commonly found and commercial operating systems/desktops combinations available today. It is our hope that the combination UNIX/KDE will finally bring the same open, reliable, stable and monopoly free computing to the average computer user that scientist and computing professionals world-wide have enjoyed for years.
KDE The Application Development Framework
Authoring applications under UNIX/X11 used to be an extremely difficult and tedious process. KDE recognizes the fact that a computing platform is only as good as the amount of first class applications available to the users of that particular platform. In view of these circumstances the KDE Project has developed a first rate compound document application framework, implementing the latest advances in framework technology and thus positioning itself in direct competition to such popular development frameworks as for example Microsoft's MFC/COM/ActiveX technology. KDE's KParts compound document technology enables developers to quickly create first rate applications implementing cutting edge technology.
KDE The Office Application Suite
Leveraging the KDE application development framework a great number of applications have been built for the K Desktop Environment. A selection of those applications is contained in the KDE base distribution. At this moment KDE is developing an office application suite based on KDE's KParts technology consisting of a spread-sheet, a presentation application, an organizer, a news client and more. KPresenter, KDE's presentation application was successfully used at many presentations.
What's New in This Release:
Code:
kdelibs [ all SVN changes ]: Bugfixes: · Avoid an infinite loop in KCategorizedView. Fixes bug 226631. See SVN commit 1181739. · Prevent that the wrong page in a KPageView is shown. Fixes bug 249706. See SVN commit 1185518. · Workaround an issue causing KSharedDataCache to mysteriously crash when changing the system time (including timezones for dual-boot users). Fixes bug 253795. See SVN commit 1187999. · Fix support for big ZIP archives in KZip. Fixes bug 216672. See SVN commit 1187160. kdebase [ all SVN changes ]: Bugfixes: · Prevent that icons overlap in Details View when the zoom level is changed. Fixes bug 234600. See SVN commit 1182798. plasma: Bugfixes: · Nowplaying dataengine: do not get confused by applications exporting MPRIS2 interfaces. See SVN commit 1184471. kdegames [ all SVN changes ]: Bugfixes: · Rebuild board when difficulty level has changed. Fixes bug 230241. See SVN commit 1182107. · Fix logical error in "unsolvable games" option. Fixes bug 145953. See SVN commit 1182109. kdeedu [ all SVN changes ]: Bugfixes: · Fixed handling of the zoom value. Fixes bug 249628. See SVN commit 1185602. · Corrected broken painting of the atmosphere. Fixes bug 254154. See SVN commit 1185965. KGeography: Bugfixes: · Update the name of a place in Azerbaijan. See SVN commit 1188209. kdeutils [ all SVN changes ]: Bugfixes: · Do not follow symlinks when creating tar archives. Fixes bug 253059. See SVN commit 1186377. kdemultimedia [ all SVN changes ]: Bugfixes: · Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD. Fixes bug 247643. See SVN commit 1188014. kdegraphics [ all SVN changes ]: Bugfixes: · Save the visibility of menu bar and toolbar when closing as full screen. Fixes bug 250370. See SVN commit 1185956. · XPS backend: support also application/oxps, which is the new MIME type name for XPS documents. See SVN commit 1187569. · DjVu backend: do not crash when handling links pointing to pages not in the document. Fixes bug 254610. See SVN commit 1189016.
Price: Free
Size: 700MB
Download:
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