From: Gorkem Cetin (gorkem@gelecek.com.tr)
Date: Tue 27 Feb 2001 - 10:19:44 EET
Merhaba
Linux'un (ve diger pek cok UNIX'in) uzerinde calisabilen, Linux
masaustunde %70'e varan bir oranda kullanilan KDE Masaustu Ortami (K
Destkop Environment) surum 2.1 cikartildi. Duyuruyu bu surumun basindaki
kisi olan David Faure yapti. Cok kisa bir zamanda Turkce haber bultenini
de KDE'nin web sayfasindan alabileceksiniz.
Web baglantilari icin www.kde.org sitesi ziyaret edilebilir.
Iyi calismalar
Gorkem
Gelecek A.S
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:38:53 +0000
From: David Faure <faure@kde.org>
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Subject: [kde-promo] KDE 2.1 released
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DATELINE FEBRUARY 26, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New KDE Desktop Ready for the Enterprise
KDE Ships Leading Desktop with Advanced Web Browser for Linux and Other UNIXes
February 26, 2001 (The INTERNET).
The KDE Project today announced the release of KDE 2.1, a powerful and
easy-to-use Internet-enabled desktop for Linux. KDE features Konqueror, a
state-of-the-art web browser, as an integrated component of its user-friendly
desktop environment, as well as KDevelop, an advanced IDE, as a central
component of KDE's powerful development environment. This release marks a
leap forward in Linux desktop stability, usability and maturity and is
suitable for enterprise deployment. The KDE Project strongly encourages all
users to upgrade to KDE 2.1.
KDE and all its components are available for free under Open Source licenses
from the KDE server and its mirrors and can also be obtained on CD-ROM. KDE
2.1 is available in 33 languages and ships with the core KDE libraries, the
core desktop environment (including Konqueror), developer packages (including
KDevelop), as well as the over 100 applications from the other standard base
KDE packages (administration, games, graphics, multimedia, network, PIM and
utilities).
"This second major release of the KDE 2 series is a real improvement in terms
of stability, performance and features," said David Faure, release manager
for KDE 2.1 and KDE Representative at Mandrakesoft. "KDE 2 has now matured
into a solid, intuitive and complete desktop for daily use. Konqueror is a
full-featured and robust web browser and important applications like the mail
client (KMail) have greatly improved. The multimedia architecture has made
great strides and this release inaugurates the new media player noatun, which
has a modular, plugin design for playing the latest audio and video formats.
For development, KDE 2.1 for the first time is bundled with KDevelop, an
outstanding IDE/RAD which will be comfortably familiar to developers with
Windows development backgrounds. In short, KDE 2.1 is a state-of-the-art
desktop and development environment, and positions Linux/Unix to make
significant inroads in the home and enterprise."
"KDE 2.1 opens the door to widespread adoption of the Linux desktop and will
help provide the success on the desktop that Linux already enjoys in the
server space," added Dirk Hohndel, CTO of Suse AG. "With its intuitive
interface, code maturity and excellent development tools and environment, I
am confident that enterprises and third party developers will realize the
enormous potential KDE offers and will migrate their workstations and
applications to Linux/KDE."
"KDE boasts an outstanding graphical design and robust functionality," said
Sheila Harnett, Senior Technical Staff Member for IBM's Linux Technology
Center. "KDE 2.1 significantly raises the bar for Linux desktop
functionality, usability and quality in virtually every aspect of the
desktop."
KDE 2: The K Desktop Environment. Konqueror is KDE 2's next-generation web
browser, file manager and document viewer. The standards-compliant Konqueror
has a component-based architecture which combines the features and
functionality of Internet Explorer/Netscape Communicator and Windows
Explorer. Konqueror supports the full gamut of current Internet technologies,
including JavaScript, Java, XML, HTML 4.0, CSS-1 and -2 (Cascading Style
Sheets), SSL (Secure Socket Layer for secure communications) and Netscape
Communicator plug-ins (for Flash, RealAudio, RealVideo and similar
technologies).
In addition, KDE offers seamless network transparency for accessing or
browsing files on Linux, NFS shares, MS Windows SMB shares, HTTP pages, FTP
directories, LDAP directories and audio CDs. The modular, plug-in nature of
KDE's file architecture makes it simple to add additional protocols (such as
IPX, WebDAV or digital cameras) to KDE, which would then automatically be
available to all KDE applications.
KDE's configurability and customizability touches every aspect of the
desktop. KDE offers a unique cascading customization feature where
customization settings are inherited through different layers, from global to
per-user, permitting enterprise-wide and group-based configurations. KDE's
sophisticated theme support starts with Qt's style engine, which permits
developers and artists to create their own widget designs. KDE 2.1 ships with
over 14 of these styles, some of which emulate the look of various operating
systems. Additionally KDE includes a new theme manager and does an excellent
job of importing themes from GTK and GNOME. Moreover, KDE 2 fully supports
Unicode and KHTML is the only free HTML rendering engine on Linux/X11 that
features nascent support for BiDi scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.
KDE 2 features an advanced, network-transparent multimedia architecture based
on aRts, the Analog Realtime Synthesizer. ARts is a full-featured sound
system which includes a number of effects and filters, a modular analog
synthesizer and a mixer. The aRts sound server provides network transparent
sound support for both input and output using MCOP, a CORBA-like network
design, enabling applications running on remote computers to output sound and
receive input from the local workstation. This architecture provides a
much-needed complement to the network transparency provided by X and for the
first time permits users to run their applications remotely with sound
enabled. Moreover, aRts enables multiple applications (local or remote) to
output sound and/or video concurrently. Video support is available for MPEG
versions 1, 2 and 4 (experimental), as well as the AVI and DivX formats.
Using the aRts component technology, it is very easy to develop multimedia
applications.
Besides the exceptional compliance with Internet and file-sharing standards
mentioned above, KDE 2 is a leader in compliance with the available Linux
desktop standards. KWin, KDE's new re-engineered window manager, complies to
the new Window Manager Specification. Konqueror and KDE comply with the
Desktop Entry Standard. Konqueror uses the XBEL standard for its bookmarks.
KDE 2 largely complies with the X Drag-and-Drop (XDND) protocol as well as
with the X11R6 session management protocol (XSMP).
KDE 2: The K Development Environment. KDE 2.1 offers developers a
sophisticated IDE as well as a rich set of major technological improvements
over the critically acclaimed KDE 1 series. Chief among the technologies are
the Desktop COmmunication Protocol (DCOP), the I/O libraries (KIO), the
component object model (KParts), an XML-based GUI class, and a
standards-compliant HTML rendering engine (KHTML).
KDevelop is a leading Linux IDE with numerous features for rapid application
development, including a GUI dialog builder, integrated debugging, project
management, documentation and translation facilities, built-in concurrent
development support, and much more.
KParts, KDE 2's proven component object model, handles all aspects of
application embedding, such as positioning toolbars and inserting the proper
menus when the embedded component is activated or deactivated. KParts can
also interface with the KIO trader to locate available handlers for specific
mimetypes or services/protocols. This technology is used extensively by the
KOffice suite and Konqueror.
KIO implements application I/O in a separate process to enable a non-blocking
GUI without the use of threads. The class is network and protocol transparent
and hence can be used seamlessly to access HTTP, FTP, POP, IMAP, NFS, SMB,
LDAP and local files. Moreover, its modular and extensible design permits
developers to "drop in" additional protocols, such as WebDAV, which will then
automatically be available to all KDE applications. KIO also implements a
trader which can locate handlers for specified mimetypes; these handlers can
then be embedded within the requesting application using the KParts
technology.
The XML GUI employs XML to create and position menus, toolbars and possibly
other aspects of the GUI. This technology offers developers and users the
advantage of simplified configurability of these user interface elements
across applications and automatic compliance with the KDE Standards and Style
Guide irrespective of modifications to the standards.
DCOP is a client-to-client communications protocol intermediated by a server
over the standard X11 ICE library. The protocol supports both message passing
and remote procedure calls using an XML-RPC to DCOP "gateway". Bindings for
C, C++ and Python, as well as experimental Java bindings, are available.
KHTML is an HTML 4.0 compliant rendering and drawing engine. The class will
support the full gamut of current Internet technologies, including
JavaScript, Java, HTML 4.0, CSS-2 (Cascading Style Sheets), SSL (Secure
Socket Layer for secure communications) and Netscape Communicator plugins
(for viewing Flash, RealAudio, RealVideo and similar technologies). The KHTML
class can easily be used by an application as either a widget (using normal
window parenting) or as a component (using the KParts technology). KHTML, in
turn, has the capacity to embed components within itself using the KParts
technology.
Downloading and Compiling KDE 2.1
The source packages for KDE 2.1 are available for free download at
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/tar/generic/src/ or in the
equivalent directory at one of the many KDE ftp server mirrors
(http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html). KDE 2.1 requires qt-2.2.4, which is
available in source code from Trolltech as
ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-x11-2.2.4.tar.gz.
KDE 2.1 should work with Qt-2.2.3 but Qt-2.2.4 is recommended.
For further instructions on compiling and installing KDE 2.1, please consult
the installation instructions and, if you encounter problems, the compilation
FAQ.
Installing Binary Packages
Some distributors choose to provide binary packages of KDE for certain
versions of their distribution. Some of these binary packages for KDE 2.1
will be available for free download under
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/ or under the equivalent directory
at one of the many KDE ftp server mirrors. Please note that the KDE team is
not responsible for these packages as they are provided by third parties --
typically, but not always, the distributor of the relevant distribution.
KDE 2.1 requires qt-2.2.4, the free version of which is available from the
above locations usually under the name qt-x11-2.2.4. KDE 2.1 should work with
Qt-2.2.3 but Qt-2.2.4 is recommended.
At the time of this release, pre-compiled packages are available for:
Caldera eDesktop 2.4:
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/Caldera/eDesktop24
Debian GNU/Linux (i386, Sparc and PPC)
Potato (2.2):
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/deb/dists/potato/main
Stable (2.3):
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/deb/dists/stable/main
Linux-Mandrake 7.2:
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2
RedHat Linux:
Wolverine (i386):
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/RedHat/wolverine
7.0 (i386 and alpha):
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/RedHat/7.0
6.x (i386, Alpha and Sparc):
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/RedHat/6.x
SuSE Linux:
7.1(i386 and Sparc) :
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/SuSE
7.0 (i386 and PPC) :
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/SuSE
6.4 (i386) :
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/SuSE/6.4-i386
6.3 (i386) :
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/SuSE/6.3-i386
Tru64 Systems
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/tar/Tru64
FreeBSD
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1/distribution/tar/FreeBSD
Please check the servers periodically for pre-compiled packages for other
distributions. More binary packages will become available over the coming
days and weeks.
What Others Are Saying
KDE 2.1 has already earned accolades from industry leaders worldwide. A
sampling of comments follows.
"We are very excited about the enhancements in KDE 2.1 and we are pleased to
be able to contribute to the project," said Rene Schmidt, Corel's Executive
Vice-President, Linux Products. "KDE continues to improve with each release,
and these enhancements will make our easy-to-use Linux distribution for the
desktop even better."
"A greater number and availability of Linux applications is an important
factor that will determine if Linux permeates the enterprise desktop," said
Drew Spencer, Chief Technology Officer for Caldera Systems, Inc. "KDE 2.1
addresses this issue with the integration of the Konqueror browser and
KDevelop, a tool that allows developers to create applications in C++ for all
kinds of environments. Together with the existing tools available for KDE,
KDevelop is a one-stop solution for developers."
"With the 2.1 release, KDE again demonstrates its capacity to offer rich
software and provide a complete and stable environment for everyday use",
added Gaël Duval, co-founder of Mandrakesoft. "This latest release has paved
the way for KDE on user's desktops in the enterprise as well as at home. From
the full-featured web browser to the friendly configuration center, it
provides all the common facilities many computers users need to abandon
Windows® entirely."
About KDE
KDE is an independent, collaborative project by hundreds of developers
worldwide to create a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop
environment employing a component-based, network-transparent architecture.
KDE is working proof of the power of the Open Source "Bazaar-style" software
development model to create first-rate technologies on par with and superior
to even the most complex commercial software.
For more information about KDE, please visit KDE's web site. More information
about KDE 2 is available in two (1, 2) slideshow presentations and on KDE's
web site, including an evolving FAQ to answer questions about migrating to
KDE 2.1 from KDE 1.x, a number of screenshots, developer information and a
developer's KDE 1 - KDE 2 porting guide.
Trademarks 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. Trolltech and Qt are trademarks of Trolltech AS. MS Windows,
Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Netscape and Netscape Communicator are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation in
the United States and other countries and JavaScript is a trademark of
Netscape Communications Corporation. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems,
Inc. Flash is a trademark or registered trademark of Macromedia, Inc. in the
United States and/or other countries. RealAudio and RealVideo are trademarks
or registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc. All other trademarks and
copyrights referred to in this announcement are the property of their
respective owners.
Press Contacts:
United States:
Kurt Granroth
granroth@kde.org
(1) 480 732 1752
Andreas Pour
pour@kde.org
(1) 718 456 1165
Europe (French and English):
David Faure
faure@kde.org
(44) 1225 837409
Europe (English and German):
Martin Konold
konold@kde.org
(49) 179 2252249
-- David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/ KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today_______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list.
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