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List:       kde-announce
Subject:    [kde-announce] KDE 3.1.5 released
From:       Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-01-14 22:49:25
Message-ID: 200401142349.25680.mueller () kde ! org
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DATELINE JANUARY 14, 2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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

January 14, 2004 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate
availability of KDE 3.1.5, a maintenance release for the third generation of
the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. 
KDE
3.1.5 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 3.1.5 is a maintenance release which provides corrections of problems
reported using the KDE bug tracking system and a vulnerability in the .VCF 
file
information reader.

For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.1 release in late
January, please refer to the KDE 3.1.5 Changelog.


Read the full announcement online at 

   http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.1.5.php

Take a look at the (incomplete) Changelog:

   http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog3_1_4to3_1_5.php

Or go directly to the KDE 3.1.5 Info Page with the Download links:

   http://www.kde.org/info/3.1.5.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 Tu:bingen 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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                              889 Bay St. #205                  
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                              Brazil                            
                              helio@kde.org                     
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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                  

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