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Schumacher: Fifteen years of KDE

[Posted October 14, 2011 by jake]

Cornelius Schumacher reflects on 15 years of KDE on his blog as well as looking to the future for the KDE "desktop" (which is moving well beyond the traditional desktop these days). "Fifteen years ago Matthias Ettrich started the KDE community. On 14th October 1996 he wrote his famous email to the de.comp.os.linux.misc group on Usenet. He called for other programmers to join him to create a free desktop environment for Linux targeted at end users. Many, many people joined. Thousands of developers wrote millions lines of code. We did 90 stable releases of our core set of applications alone, not counting all additional stuff and the thousands of 3rd party applications."

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Posted Oct 14, 2011 23:06 UTC (Fri) by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446) [Link]

15 years - well done!

I've only been using it for about 11 and I still haven't found every configuration feature presented in the GUI.

It was the first lump of code I felt compelled to compile from source on my old Slack based i486 system and with hindsight it must have been a pretty well managed lump because after several hours I had a working smart new WM.

Nowadays, my Gentoo boxen chomp though compile after compile and look and work better and better at the end of each upgrade.

Frankly, the more WMs the better: I personally want KDE on my general desktop but I also love using Gnome, LXDE, EvilWM and E.

This is what its all about: CHOICE - embrace, extend, enjoy!

Cheers
Jon

Schumacher: Fifteen years of KDE

Posted Oct 15, 2011 17:34 UTC (Sat) by bald (guest, #80816) [Link]

Yes!!!

I've been using KDE since 0.9 (13 yrs?), and still find it a fantasic thing.

4.* is an impressive achievement. I really hope it give KDE devs the edge to keep up the fiendish development pace of this day. Without KDE and it's ample configurability we'll all be locked into some other persons idea of the perfect desktop, instead of our vision.

Here's one for the next 15!