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List:       kde-announce
Subject:    [kde-announce]KDE 3.1 released
From:       Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-01-28 5:48:43
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DATELINE JANUARY 28, 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    KDE Project Ships Major Feature Release of Leading Open Source Desktop,
                         Improves Enterprise Usability

KDE Project Ships Major Feature Upgrade of Third- Generation Linux/UNIX
Desktop, Offering Enterprises and Governments a Compelling Free and Open
Desktop Solution

January 28, 2003 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate
availability of KDE 3.1, a major feature upgrade to the third generation of the
most advanced and powerful free desktop for Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.1
ships with a basic desktop, an integrated development environment and seventeen
other packages (PIM, administration, network, edutainment, utilities,
multimedia, games, artwork, web development and more). KDE's award-winning
tools and applications are available in 47 languages.

Consistent with KDE's rapid but disciplined development pace, the release of
KDE 3.1 heralds an impressive catalog of feature enhancements and additions. As
has been typical in recent KDE major releases, a great many of the new features
provide welcome news particularly to private and public enterprises.

"We are delighted to see the KDE Project placing such a strong emphasis on
Enterprise Desktops," noted Markus Rex, Vice President of Research and
Development at SuSE. "Features like the kiosk mode, the improved
Mail-encryption and the new remote Desktop operation are key components of
SuSE's upcoming office and enterprise product lines."

"People interested in deploying KDE in the enterprise will be pleased with the
kiosk features that have been added to KDE 3.1," explained Waldo Bastian, a
lead developer in the "KDE Kiosk" initiative. "These new features make it easy
to lock down parts of the KDE desktop, precluding users from making unapproved
configuration changes or even running unapproved applications."

"Recent additions to KDE's email security and groupware functionality,
implemented at the initiative of the German federal government, will bring KDE
a long way towards general use not only on the corporate desktop, but also in
governments across the European Union and elsewhere," noted Matthias Kalle
Dalheimer, President of KDE e.V. as well as Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, one
of the companies contracted by the German government to implement the new
functionality in close cooperation with the KDE community.

"KDE 3.1 is easily the best overall Open Source desktop ever released," added
Andreas Pour, Chairman of the KDE League. "From enterprise support to eye candy
to security, this release is a testament to the success of Internet
collaboration."

KDE, including all its libraries and its applications, is available for free
under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and numerous binary
formats from the KDE http or ftp mirrors, and can also be obtained on CD-ROM or
with any of the major Linux/UNIX systems shipping today.

Please read the full announcement at

        http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.1.html

Learn more about KDE 3.1 enhancements in the KDE 3.1 New Feature Guide:

        http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php

Download KDE 3.1:

        http://www.kde.org/info/3.1.html

About KDE

KDE is an independent project of hundreds of developers, translators, artists
and other professionals worldwide collaborating over the Internet to create and
freely distribute a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop and office
environment employing a flexible, component-based, network-transparent
architecture and offering an outstanding development platform. KDE provides a
stable, mature desktop, a full, component-based office suite (KOffice), a large
set of networking and administration tools and utilities, and an efficient,
intuitive development environment featuring the excellent IDE KDevelop. KDE is
working proof that the Open Source "Bazaar-style" software development model
can yield first-rate technologies on par with and superior to even the most
complex commercial software.

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Press Contacts:                                             

                          United States:  Andreas Pour      
                                          KDE League, Inc.  
                                          pour@kdeleague.org
                                          (1) 917 312 3122  

            Europe (French and English):  David Faure       
                                          faure@kde.org     
                                          (33) 4 3250 1445  

            Europe (German and English):  Ralf Nolden       
                                          nolden@kde.org    
                                          (49) 2421 502758  

Southeast Asia (English and Indonesian):  Ariya Hidayat     
                                          ariya@kde.org     
                                          (62) 815 8703177  

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