[From nobody Sat Aug 10 21:38:48 2019 Received: from fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de (fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.40.152]) by suncom.rz.hu-berlin.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA24816 for <sebastian.krueger@student.hu-berlin.de>; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 04:12:31 +0100 (MET) Received: by fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de id <308430-24660>; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 04:10:46 +0100 Message-Id: <XFMail.980201220211.wuebben@math.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-010198 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 22:02:11 -0500 (EST) Organization: Cornell University Sender: wuebben@petit.cornell.edu From: Bernd Johannes Wuebben <wuebben@math.cornell.edu> To: kde-announce@fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de Subject: Announce: KDE Beta 3 released Old-Return-Path: <wuebben@math.cornell.edu> X-Orcpt: rfc822;kde-announce@fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de Resent-Message-ID: <"lR0RrB.A.ylD.GdT10"@fiwi02> Resent-From: kde-announce@fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de Reply-To: kde@fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de X-Mailing-List: <kde-announce@fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de> archive/latest/782 X-Loop: kde-announce@fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de Precedence: list Resent-Sender: kde-announce-request@fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de Resent-Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 04:02:35 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii T H E K D E S K T O P E N V I R O N M E N T http://www.kde.org Beta 3 February 1, 1998 An integrated Desktop Environment for the Unix Operating System We are pleased to announce the availability of the third public beta "Huesten" of the K Desktop Environment. KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix worksta- tions. The KDE desktop aims to combine ease of use, contemporary functionality and outstanding graphical design with the technologi- cal superiority of the Unix operating system. KDE is a completely new desktop, incorporating a large suite of applications for Unix workstations. While KDE includes a window manager, file manager, panel, control center and many other compo- nents that one would expect to be part of a contemporary desktop environment, the true strength of this exceptional environment lies in the interoperability of its components. Beta 3 highlights: o KDE now actively supports 18 different languages. o A number of new exciting applications where added to the base packages. o Automatic integration of legacy applications by means of kappfinder. o Improved proxy support. o Bug fixes. Key KDE features: o Transparent Network Access: Most KDE components are inherently Internet aware. KDE's folder windows are in fact web browsers. You can open URLs and view HTML pages, download files by dragging them from the folder windows onto your desktop or even edit remote documents by simply dragging them from a remote site opened in a folder onto KDE's editor. o Session management: KDE supports elaborate session management. You can leave documents and applications open when you log out and ses- sion management aware applications will be restored to their previous state on your next log in. KDE offers pseudo session management for legacy X11 applications. o Configurability: Most, if not all settings are configurable through intu- itive GUI dialogs rather then the traditional cryptic con- figuration files. The configuration files are of course human readable. o Vast pool of KDE applications: A great number of applications have already been written for the KDE project. Some are supplied with the base pack- ages available for download from http://www.kde.org, others can be found in the 'apps' directory on ftp.kde.org and its many mirrors. We proudly offer applications ranging from a postscript viewer to a CD player, a calculator to a sound system, and even a finite element analysis application. We are confident you will be pleasantly surprised by the broad spectrum of applications available today. o Internationalization: Most of KDE's core components and many of the KDE applica- tions are internationalized. That is, they will operate in many languages. We consider this a key feature in gaining acceptance among a wide audience. In fact, at present we support already as many as 18 languages. Please consider helping us translate more of our applications. Visit http://www.kde.org/i18n.html for more information on the internationalization project. Screen Shots: Screen shots of a typical K desktop and some of its core components can be found at: http://www.kde.org/kscreenshots.html We are certain you will like what you see. Where to get KDE: You can download the KDE base packages from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde or one of its many mirrors. Please visit our web site at http://www.kde.org for more info. The precise locations of the beta 3 packages are: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/Beta3/distribution/tgz/binary ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/Beta3/distribution/tgz/source ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/Beta3/distribution/rpm/binary ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/Beta3/distribution/rpm/source ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/Beta3/distribution/deb/binary ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/Beta3/distribution/deb/source Supported platforms: KDE was primarily developed under the Linux variant of the Unix operating system. However it is known to compile with- out, or with very few, problems on most Unix variants. At the moment we explicitely support Linux (Intel , Alpha, Sparc) and Solaris (Sparc) and we have success reports for FreeBSD, IRIX, OSF, SunOS, HP-UX. and others. KDE Development: KDE was developed by a world-wide network of programmers during the past 14 months. In fact the release of the first beta coincided roughly with KDE's first birthday, October 16th 1997. KDE development is open to everyone. Please consider join- ing the KDE project. If you are a programmer, consider writing applications for the KDE project. If you are a graphical design artist consider creating icon sets, color schemes, sound schemes, logo's and other supporting art. If you enjoy writing, you are invited to join our documenta- tion project and help creating help documentation, tutori- als and other supporting documentation in the K documenta- tion project (KDP). Please visit our web site for further information on how you can help make KDE an even better environment than it already is. To the expert: KDE's development model differs deliberately from that of other known desktop projects in that it does not try to follow preconceived handed-down specifications. We have recognized the availablilty of an existing and usable desk- top at all stages of development as paramount to the suc- cess of the project. Only in this fashion we are able to attract the large number of developers necessary for a pro- ject of this enormous scale. KDE improves on an almost daily basis in an iterative cycle of design, coding, test- ing, revision, redesign, leading to constant excitement and concrete tangible results at any given time. We are convinced that we have chosen the right development model prerequisite to running a successful Internet project, and accommodating the special circumstances arising from the fact that all development is done on a strictly volunteer basis. Please give KDE a try, we believe that the results speak for themselves. Licensing: The KDE libraries are licensed under the LGPL, to allow for the development of commercial applications for KDE. KDE applications are licensed under the GPL. KDE is based on the Qt GUI library which is free for the X Window System, provided the applications developed with it are released under a free license such as the GPL. More information about Qt may be found at http://www.troll.no What does the 'K' stand for? Nothing. It is simply named the "K Desktop Environment". Lastly: KDE is NOT a Window Manager KDE is not just another window manager trying to imitate the look of an existing desktop environment, but rather an integrated environment of which the window manager provided with KDE is only a small part. In fact if you so desire you can continue to use your favorite window manger, however we strongly encourage you to use the KDE window manager and enjoy the functionality afforded by the interoperability of the KDE components. The KDE window manger provides all the functionality you need and more. Additionally, KDE is not a CDE, Windows or OS/2 clone. While some ideas may have originated from these systems, KDE is unique and we have no intentions of cloning another system. Bug Reports: Please submit your bug reports at http://buglist.kde.org . Consider subscribing to our mailing lists in order to stay in contact with the latest developments. Mailing Lists: kde-announce (announcements) kde (general discussion) kde-devel (development issues) kde-look (look and feel issues) kde-licensing (licensing issues) kde-user (end user discussion) kde-patches (daily patches) To subscribe (unsubscribe), send mail to [list]-request@fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de with: subscribe (unsubscribe) [your-email-address] in the Subject: line of the message. A mailing list archive is provided at: http://www.itm.mu-luebeck.de/~coolo/kde/ Thanks: We would like to thank Troll Tech AS http://www.troll.no for creating Qt and our sponsors for making KDE ONE http://www.kde.org/kde-one.html in Arnsberg, Germany possi- ble. Epilogue: We sincerely believe that we have initiated a new era for the Unix operating system and hope you will share our excitement. We hope that KDE will allow you to get your work done faster and more efficiently than ever. Please consider joining and supporting the project. The KDE Core Team APPENDIX: Mirrors: As during previous beta releases, expect ftp.kde.org to be rather busy. Please take note of the following list of official mirrors of ftp.kde.org. ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/hci/kde ftp://ftp.nllgg.nl/pub1/ ftp.kde.org/pub/kde ftp://ftp.shadowcom.org/pub/Systems/UNIX/X11/kde ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/kde ftp://ftp.mouk.s-jaani.ee/pub/kde ftp://beer.stampede.org/ ftp.kde.org ftp://ftp1.change-espace.fr/pub/Linux/kde ftp://ftp.tsc.uvigo.es/pub/linux/kde ftp://bromo.ptf.hro.nl/pub/mirrors/kde ftp://ftp.cised.unina.it/pub/kde ftp://ftp.sw.com.sg/pub/kde ftp://ftp.netlab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/pub/X/KDE ftp://ftp.arpanet.ch/pub/mirrors/kde/ ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/X11/gui/kde/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/mirrors/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde ftp://ftp.net.lut.ac.uk/kde ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/linux/kde ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming ftp://linux.unipv.it/pub/linux/kde ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/kde ftp://ftp.chialpha.org/pub/kde ftp://ftp.blaze.net.au/pub/kde ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/x11/kde/ ftp://ops.linux.co.za/pub/Linux/kde ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/MIRROR.KDE ftp://ftp.dataplus.se/pub/linux/kde ftp://ftp.tvnet.hu/pub/kde ftp://canine.resnet.gatech.edu/pub/kde ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/pub/mirrors/kde ftp://ftp.appl-opt.physik.uni-essen.de/pub/linux/kde ftp://ftp.dsnet.it/pub/internet/unix/Linux/kde ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/X11/Desktops/KDE ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/kde/ ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/mirrors/kde ftp://ftp.fh-dortmund.de/pub/unix/kde.mirror ftp://kde.flash.net/pub/unix/kde/ ftp://ftp.cs.us.es/pub/Linux/kde/ ftp://ftp.isis.nsu.ru/mirrors/kde/ ftp://belief.unix.cslab.tuwien.ac.at/pub/kde ftp://clio.unice.fr/ ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/kde/ ftp://ftp.lbi.ro/pub/Linux/KDE ftp://ftp.linux.org.au/pub/linux/kde/ ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/tools/X11/kde/ ftp://sundog.v-wave.com/pub/kde/ ftp://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/linux/kde ftp://ftp.fisica.ist.utl.pt/pub/mirrors/kde ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/kde ftp://ftp.linux.org.au/pub/linux/kde/ The packages will also be uploaded to: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/ ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/Incoming Expect the usual delays before all packages are available at all ftp sites. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bernd Johannes Wuebben wuebben@kde.org wuebben@math.cornell.edu wuebben@acm.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- ]