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List:       kde-announce
Subject:    PRESS RELEASE: KONQUEROR.ORG LAUNCHES
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       2000-05-02 10:41:38
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DATELINE MAY 2, 2000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                           KONQUEROR.ORG LAUNCHES

NEW WEBSITE DEDICATED TO USERS OF KDE'S NEXT-GENERATION
FILE MANAGER/BROWSER/UNIVERSAL VIEWER

May 2, 2000 (New York, New York). The KDE Team (http://www.kde.org) is
pleased to announce the launch of Konqueror.org (http://www.konqueror.org),
a website devoted to Konqueror, KDE's next-generation, full-featured,
powerful, flexible, modular and Internet-transparent file manager,
web browser and universal document viewer.

Konqueror, which has been widely acclaimed as a technological break-through
for the Linux desktop, has a component-based architecture which combines the
features and functionality of Internet Explorer®/Netscape Communicator® and
Windows Explorer®. Konqueror supports all major Internet technologies,
including JavaScript(tm), Java®, HTML 4.0, CSS-2 (Cascading Style Sheets), SSL
(Secure Socket Layer for secure communications) and, in the near future,
Netscape® plugins (for viewing Flash(tm), RealAudio(tm), RealVideo(tm) and
similar technologies). In addition, Konqueror's network transparency offers
seamless support for browsing Linux® NFS shares, Windows® SMB shares and FTP
directories. Konqueror will ship as part of the highly anticipated release
of KDE 2.0, targeted for mid-summer 2000.

Konqueror's developers created Konqueror.org to serve as Konqueror's
official website. There users can learn about Konqueror's many powerful
features, keep abreast of the latest Konqueror news and developments, learn
how to download and install Konqueror and submit comments and questions to
Konqueror developers. Developers can learn how they can use Konqueror to
web-enable their applications, how they can enable their applications to
serve as a Konqueror component and how they can contribute to Konqueror's
ongoing development.

"While the site offers rich content already - including a number of
mouth-watering screenshots - it is a work in progress and we will certainly
continually improve it", said Chris Lee (nytehorse@inficad.com), webmaster
and principal architect of the site. "We plan to add tutorials and FAQs for
users, include a plug-in and component directory and supplement the
developer's news and tutorials.  This will be the site to go to for official,
as well as unofficial, Konqueror news and information."

"Konqueror is an extremely promising technology which is poised to
revolutionize Linux not only on the corporate and consumer desktops but also
on networked appliances and personal digital assistants", said Andreas Pour
(pour@mieterra.com), President of MieTerra LLC. "With the new web site, the
Konqueror developers are again demonstrating their deep commitment to support
their users, assist third-party developers and create the world's premier
browser."

ABOUT KDE

KDE is a collaborative project by hundreds of developers worldwide to create
a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop environment employing a
network-transparent, intuitive user interface. Currently development is
focused on KDE 2, which will for the first time offer a free, open source,
fully-featured office suite and which promises to make the Linux desktop as
easy to use as Windows® and the Macintosh® while remaining loyal to open
standards and empowering developers and users with open source software. KDE
is working proof of how the open source software development model can
create technologies on par with and superior to even the most complex
commercial software.

For more information about KDE, please visit KDE's web site
(http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/).

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PRESS CONTACTS:

              United States:  Kurt Granroth
                              granroth@kde.org
                              (1) 480 732 1752

Europe (French and English):  David Faure
                              faure@kde.org
                              (44) 1225 471 300

Yours,
-- martin

// Martin Konold, Stauffenbergstr. 107, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany  //   
KDE:  The most advanced GUI for a reliable OS.

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