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Subject:    [kde-announce] Announcing KDE 3.3 Beta 1 ("Klassroom")
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-07-07 16:25:24
Message-ID: 200407071825.24413.coolo () kde ! org
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Below you find the announcement text of
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.3beta1.php

Please give it a good testing, so that KDE 3.3 will become as solid
as former releases.

Greetings, Stephan

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KDE Project Ships First Beta of Next Major Release

July 7, 2004 (The Internet) - The KDE Project is pleased to announce the 
immediate availability of KDE 3.3 Beta 1. As another step towards the aKademy 
in late August, this release is named Klassroom. 


Getting Klassroom

KDE 3.3 Beta 1 can be downloaded over the Internet by visiting 
download.kde.org. Source code and vendor supplied binary packages are 
available.For additional information on package availability and to read 
further release notes, please visit the KDE 3.3 Beta 1 information page.

This beta release shows astonishing stability, so the KDE team asks everyone 
to try the version and give feedback through the bug tracking system. 


Supporting KDE

KDE is supported through voluntary contributions of time, money and resources 
by individuals and companies from around the world. To discover how you or 
your company can join in and help support KDE please visit the Supporting KDE 
web page. There may be more ways to support KDE than you imagine, and every 
bit of support helps make KDE a better project and a better product for 
everyone. Communicate your support today with a monetary donation, new 
hardware or a few hours of your time!


Especially for beta releases, we can need any helping hand that is offered us 
to categorize and fix problem reports 


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. 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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