KDE celebrates 20 years [LWN.net]

KDE.news notes the 20th anniversary of the KDE project. "In the 20 years since then so much has happened. We released great software, fought for software freedom and empowered people all over the world to take charge of their digital life. In many ways we have achieved what we set out to do 20 years ago - 'a consistent, nice looking free desktop-environment' and more."

For those feeling nostalgic, there is a new version of the KDE 1.1.2 desktop ported to contemporary systems.

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KDE celebrates 20 years

Posted Oct 14, 2016 15:09 UTC (Fri) by Tara_Li (guest, #26706) [Link] (2 responses)

I wonder how KDE 1.1.2 runs on a modern desktop machine?

KDE celebrates 20 years

Posted Oct 14, 2016 15:48 UTC (Fri) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link] (1 responses)

That's easy enough to test now: http://jriddell.org/2016/10/14/kde-1-neon-lts-20-years-of... :-)

KDE celebrates 20 years

Posted Oct 14, 2016 16:23 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Wow. It looks very modern - flat interface, minimalist design. I'm going to switch.

KDE celebrates 20 years

Posted Oct 14, 2016 15:50 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

Being bugged in equal measure of KDE, GNOME and Unity, I am currently running a combination of xfce and i3. But am sorely tempted to try out KDE 1.1.2!

Heroic effort!

Posted Oct 14, 2016 16:05 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]

I was at one point interested in efforts to make CDE work with modern tooling, but bringing KDE 1 up to date is heroic. Maybe it should be spun out into its own project: Unity Desktop Environment. ;-)