 - K Desktop Environment (KDE) isan open source graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. Initially called the Kool Desktop Environment, KDE is anongoing project with development taking place on the Internet and discussionsheld through the official KDE mailing list, numerous newsgroups, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC)channels. KDE has a complete graphical user interface (GUI) and includes a filemanager, a window manager, a help system, a configuration system, tools andutilities, and several applications. The most popular suite of KDE applicationsis KOffice, which includes a word processor, a spreadsheet application, apresentation application, a vector drawing application, and image editing tools.KOffice was released with KDE version 2.0 October 2000. On December 5, 2000, KDE2.0.1 was released.Matthias Ettrich launched theKDE project in October 1996 with the goal of making the UNIX platform moreattractive and easy to use for computer users who are familiar with a graphicalinterface instead of typed commands. Today, KDE is used with Linux, Solaris,FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and LinuxPPC. Several hundred software programmers from all over the world contribute to the development of KDE.
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