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List:       kde-announce
Subject:    [kde-announce]KDE 3.1.3 Release
From:       Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-07-29 9:52:00
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DATELINE JULY 29, 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KDE Project Ships Third Translation and Service Release for Leading Open Source
                                    Desktop                                    

KDE Project Ships Third Translation and Service Release of Third-Generation GNU
/Linux - UNIX Desktop, Offering Enterprises and Governments a Compelling Free
and Open Desktop Solution

July 29th, 2003 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate
availability of KDE 3.1.3, a maintenance release for the third generation of
the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE
3.1.3 ships with a basic desktop 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 52 languages.

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 http://download.kde.org and can also be obtained on CD-ROM or with
any of the major GNU/Linux - UNIX systems shipping today.

Enhancements

KDE 3.1.3 is a maintenance release which provides corrections of problems
reported using the KDE bug tracking system.

For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.1 release in late
January, please refer to the KDE 3.1.3 Changelog.

Additional information about the enhancements of the KDE 3.1.x release series
is available in the KDE 3.1 New Feature Guide and the KDE 3.1 Announcement.

Installing KDE 3.1.3 Binary Packages

Packaging Policies. Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary
packages of KDE 3.1.3 for some versions of their distribution, and in other
cases community volunteers have done so. Some of these binary packages are
available for free download from KDE's http://download.kde.org. Additional
binary packages, as well as updates to the packages now available, may become
available over the coming weeks.

Package Locations. For a current list of available binary packages of which the
KDE Project has been informed, please visit the KDE 3.1.3 Info Page.

- Full Announcement online: 

  http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.1.3.php

- KDE 3.1.3 Info Page with download links for source code and binary 
  packages:

  http://www.kde.org/info/3.1.3.php

- KDE 3.1.3 Changelog:

  http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog3_1_2to3_1_3.php

KDE Sponsorship

Besides the superb and invaluable efforts by the KDE developers themselves,
significant support for KDE development has been provided by MandrakeSoft, 
TrollTech and SuSE. In addition, the members of the KDE League provide
significant support for KDE promotion, IBM has donated significant hardware to
the KDE Project, and the University of Tübingen and the University of
Kaiserslautern provide most of the Internet bandwidth for the KDE project.
Thanks!

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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Trademark Notices. KDE and K Desktop Environment are trademarks of KDE e.V.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered
trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other
trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are the property of
their respective owners.

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Press Contacts:                                          

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                              889 Bay St. #205           
                              Toronto, ON, M5S 3K5 Canada
                              staikos@kde.org            
                              (1) 416 925 4030           

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           

 - Press Contacts in your country: 

   http://www.kde.org/contact/

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