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I really had a good time reading A leap back from Rob Weir. Its about how Ms let an implementation bug live on for years in the application and now its proposing that that mistake be standardized in the new (as of yet unused) fileformat! Read More

After a long waiting, KDEBluetooth 1.0 beta2 got released! Release hilights include compilation fixes, and now works with lastest versions of bluez and openobex Including also some stability fixes, and header exporting to allow other application to use kdebluetooth libraries. KMobileTools 0.5 will use them. Release notes Download files

Ten years ago tomorrow, I was sitting in my office at the university, at 1AM, and, tired of many hours of difficult coding, I decided to take a break and read some of my building up mailing list subscriptions. Read More

Last weekend we had a nice celebration based on the date of the first post about KDE. When we think about birthdays of humans we don't take the first "lets create one" message, but the date its "released" into the world. Which is more practical for several reasons. Read More

Seems it's up to me as nobody else blogs about it: SUSE Linux 10.1 "Remastered" CD and DVD ISOs are now available (if you have still the original ISOs around, there exist delta ISOs against them). These have all the online patches which were released since the original 10.1 "goldmaster" release already integrated. This means no more three times restart of YOU during installation. :-) And also a more stable, slightly faster and delta-rpms for online updates supporting package mananagment. Of course all security and other released fixes are also integrated. And because first people already asked: this doesn't include newer application/desktop versions. You have to wait for openSUSE 10.2 (soon entering the Beta phase) for that or adventure the unsupported build service repositories for that.

It's been quite a while since I've blogged. You know, life gets in the way... But this is a good time as any to say it: Happy Birthday KDE. May the next 10 years be more groundbreaking and memorable than the last 10. Read More

It's party time. Today we celebrate the tenth birthday of KDE. It all started with the famous post by Matthias Ettrich on October 14th 1996 calling for programmers to create a piece of free software he called KDE. The mission: "The idea is to create a GUI for an ENDUSER. Somebody who wants to browse the web with Linux, write some letters and play some nice games." Ten years later we have grown an amazing community of hundreds of developers and millions of users which made big parts of Matthias' original vision become reality. Read More

Yesterday at 10:00 AM the president of the KDE e.V. Eva Brucherseifer welcomed the audience of the presentation track at the KDE anniversary event at the Technische Akademie Esslingen (TAE) in Ostfildern near Stuttgart, Germany. Keynote speakers were Matthias Ettrich, founder of the KDE project, as well as Klaus Knopper of Knoppix distribution^wfame. During their presentations they looked back at KDE's successful past 10 years and they offered their thoughts about the future of KDE and Free Software. Jono Bacon, Canonical's community manager of Ubuntu / Kubuntu, congratulated KDE with his own presentation about Kubuntu and KDE. Jan Mühlig from Relevantive and Daniel Molkentin, KDE e.V. talked about Usability and KDE 4. In the afternoon the audience of the presentation track met for a group photo and celebrated the event with sparkling wine and a big birthday cake. Even the dragon mascot of the project was present - this time made of marzipan, right on the top of the birthday cake. Right after the afternoon break the presentation track continued with a speech from Heinz-M. Gräsing from the city of Treuchtlingen who gave some insights about the successful migration of Treuchtlingen to KDE. The presentation part of the anniversary was concluded by Knut Yrvin, community manager at Trolltech, who surveyed the KDE 10 Years raffle together with Eva Brucherseifer. As prizes Trolltech offered a Qtopia Greenphone and Open Source Press offered Daniel Molkentin's new book about Qt4 programming. Further KDE people arrived at the TAE in the evening when people met in the cottage for a delicious big "italian" dinner. People clinked glasses later at midnight when the party started to last into the actual anniversary. The KDE project would like to thank the speakers of the presentation track, the Technische Akademie Esslingen, Trolltech and Open Source Press for their support of the whole event. A special "thank you" goes to the confectioner who created that awesome marzipan dragon for the cake ;-) And of course we would like to thank all the people who were not able to attend the event and who sent their nice wishes to the KDE Project.

Today ten years ago the KDE project was founded. It certainly influenced the life of many people including mine. :-) The party at the 10 Years KDE event to celebrate this anniversary started yesterday and ended today. At the end I was continously awake around 23 hours as I didn't want to miss any part of the event and had to arrive to Stuttgart in the morning first. Tackat wrote a nice report about the whole day. Trolltech congratulated giving every attendee a t-shirt with the imprint "KDE - Defining the Linux Desktop for Ten Years!" increasing my geek t-shirt collection (how many do you have?). Also nice to meet some early involved people who are not actively contributing to KDE today anymore like Matthias Hölzer-Klüpfel and Jono Bacon and to recognize how many people from KDE's first weeks are still active and have now their own or are leading employees of companies earning their money with Qt/KDE related development.

I was interested to read this article on how Sun have set up a pavilion in Second Life, and are using it for virtual meetings: Tuesday, Sun became the first Fortune 500 company to hold an 'in-world' press conference to show off its new pavilion in Second Life, the popular 3D online world. Sun said it plans to invest in the Sun Pavilion as a place for developers to try out code, share ideas and receive training. Read More