From kde-announce Tue Oct 12 17:41:01 2004 From: Stephan Kulow Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:41:01 +0000 To: kde-announce Subject: [kde-announce] KDE 3.3.1 Release Announcement Message-Id: <200410121941.01523.coolo () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-announce&m=109760288320199 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-3.3.1.php In the name of the KDE team, Stephan Kulow ==================================================================== DATELINE October 12, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KDE Project Ships First Translation and Service Release for Leading Open Source Desktop KDE Project Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 3.3 Generation GNU/Linux - UNIX Desktop, Offering Enterprises and Governments a Compelling Free and Open Desktop Solution October 12, 2004 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.3.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.3.1 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 50 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 3.3.1 is a maintenance release which provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and greatly enhanced support for existing translations and new translations. For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.3 release in August, please refer to the KDE 3.3.1 Changelog. Additional information about the enhancements of the KDE 3.3.x release series is available in the KDE 3.3 Announcement. Installing KDE 3.3.1 Binary Packages Packaging Policies. Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE 3.3.1 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 3.3.1 Info Page. Compiling KDE 3.3.1 Source Code. The complete source code for KDE 3.3.1 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE 3.3.1 are available from the KDE 3.3.1 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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. Press Contacts Africa Asia Uwe Thiem Sirtaj S. Kang P.P.Box 30955 C-324 Defence Colony Windhoek New Delhi Namibia India 110024 Phone: +264 - 61 - 24 Phone: +91-981807-8372 92 49 info-asia@kde.org info-africa@kde.org Europe North America Matthias Kalle George Staikos Dalheimer 889 Bay St. #205 Rysktorp Toronto, ON, M5S 3K5 S-683 92 Hagfors Canada Sweden Phone: (416)-925-4030 Phone: +46-563-540023 info-northamerica@kde.org Fax: +46-563-540028 info-europe@kde.org South America Oceania Helio Chissini de Castro Hamish Rodda R. Jose' de Alencar 120, apto 11 Eucalyptus Road 1906 Eltham VIC 3095 Curitiba, PR 80050-240 Australia Brazil Phone: (+61)402 346684 Phone: +55(41)262-0782 / +55(41) info-oceania@kde.org 360-2670 info-southamerica@kde.org _______________________________________________ kde-announce mailing list kde-announce@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-announce