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Subject:    [kde-announce] KDE 3.2.2 Release Announcement
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-04-19 18:31:57
Message-ID: 200404192032.06485.coolo () kde ! org
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Dear KDE Enthusiasts!

We're happy to send out the following announcement. You can find the 
hyperlinked version of it at 
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.2.2.php

In the name of the KDE team,
Stephan Kulow

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KDE 3.2.2 Release Announcement

DATELINE April 19, 2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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

KDE Project Ships Second Translation and Service Release of the 3.2 Generation
GNU/Linux - UNIX Desktop, Offering Enterprises and Governments a Compelling
Free and Open Desktop Solution

April 19, 2004 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate
availability of KDE 3.2.2, a maintenance release for the latest generation of
the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. 
KDE
3.2.2 ships with a basic desktop and eighteen other packages (PIM,
administration, network, edutainment, utilities, multimedia, games, artwork,
web development and more). KDE's award-winning tools and applications are
available in 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese,
Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik).

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 3.2.2 is a maintenance release which provides corrections of problems
reported using the KDE bug tracking system and enhanced support for existing
translations.

For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.2 release in early
February, please refer to the KDE 3.2.2 Changelog.

Additional information about the enhancements of the KDE 3.2.x release series
is available in the KDE 3.2 Announcement.

Installing KDE 3.2.2 Binary Packages

Packaging Policies. Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary
packages of KDE 3.2.2 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 3.2.2 Info Page.

Compiling KDE 3.2.2

Source Code. The complete source code for KDE 3.2.2 may be freely downloaded.
Instructions on compiling and installing KDE 3.2.2 are available from the KDE
3.2.2 Info Page.

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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Press Contacts

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Sweden                        Canada
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Fax: +46-563-540028           info-northamerica@kde.org
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Oceania                       South America
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Eltham VIC 3095               Curitiba, PR 80050-240
Australia                     Brazil
Phone: (+61)402 346684        Phone: +55(41)262-0782 / +55(41)360-2670
info-oceania@kde.org          info-southamerica@kde.org

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