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KDE Turns 19

Posted by samzenpus on from the age-is-just-a-number dept.

prisoninmate writes: Believe it or not, it has been 19 long years since Matthias Ettrich announced his new project, the Kool Desktop Environment (KDE). "Unix popularity grows thanks to the free variants, mostly Linux. But still a consistent, nice looking free desktop-environment is missing. There are several nice either free or low-priced applications available so that Linux/X11 would almost fit everybody needs if we could offer a real GUI," wrote the developer back in October 14, 1996.

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  1. K in KDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I stopped using kDE because of its name. The K in kDE has political meanings in Argentina. K is synonym of corruption.

    Change its name. Delete all traces of K in kDE and I will return. Until then, I prefer to use Unity, Gnome, Xfce, even WindowMaker.