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Subject: [kde-promo] KDE 2.1.1 released
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DATELINE MARCH 27, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New KDE Release for Linux Desktop Ready for Enterprise
KDE Ships Leading Desktop with Advanced Web Browser, Anti-Aliased Font
Capabilities for Linux and Other UNIXes
March 27, 2001 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the release of
KDE 2.1.1, 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. KDE 2.1 is the first stable Linux desktop completely to
integrate the new XFree anti-aliased font extensions and can provide a fully
anti-aliased font-enabled desktop.
This release follows four weeks after the release of the industry-acclaimed
KDE 2.1, which marked a leap forward in Linux desktop stability, usability
and maturity. KDE 2.1.1 is suitable for enterprise deployment and the KDE
Project strongly encourages all users of the award-winning KDE 1.x series and
of the KDE 2.0 series to upgrade to KDE 2.1.1.
The primary goals of the 2.1.1 release are to improve documentation and
provide additional language translations for the user interface, although the
release includes a few bugfixes, and improvements to the HTML rendering
engine. A list of these changes and a FAQ about the release are available at
the KDE website. Code development is currently focused on the branch that
will lead to KDE 2.2, scheduled for its first beta release in two weeks.
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. As a
result of the dedicated efforts of hundreds of translators, KDE 2.1.1 is
available in 34 languages and dialects, including the addition of Lithuanian
in this release. KDE 2.1.1 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).
For more information about the KDE 2.1 series, please see the KDE 2.1 press
release and the KDE 2.1.1 Info Page, which is an evolving FAQ about the
release. Information on using anti-aliased fonts with KDE is available here.
Downloading and Compiling KDE
The source packages for KDE 2.1.1 are available for free download at
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1.1/distribution/tar/generic/src/ or in the
equivalent directory at one of the many KDE ftp server mirrors (diffs are
also available). KDE 2.1.1 requires qt-2.2.3, which is available from
Trolltech at ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/ under the name
qt-x11-2.2.3.tar.gz, although qt-2.2.4 or qt-2.3.0 is recommended (for
anti-aliased fonts, qt-2.3.0 and XFree 4.0.3 or newer is required). KDE 2.1.1
will not work with versions of Qt older than 2.2.4.
For further instructions on compiling and installing KDE, 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 2.1.1
will be available for free download under
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1.1/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 2.1.1 requires qt-2.2.3, the free version of which is available from the
above locations usually under the name qt-x11-2.2.3, although qt-2.2.4 or
qt-2.3.0 is recommended (for anti-aliased fonts, qt-2.3.0 and XFree 4.0.3 or
newer is required). KDE 2.1.1 will not work with versions of Qt older than
2.2.3.
At the time of this release, pre-compiled packages are available for:
Caldera eDesktop 2.4:
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1.1/distribution/rpm/Caldera/eDesktop24/RPMS/
Debian GNU/Linux stable (2.2): i386 and PPC;
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1.1/distribution/deb/dists/stable/main/
Linux-Mandrake 7.2:
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1.1/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2/RPMS/
SuSE Linux.
7.1: i386, Sparc and PPC
7.0: i386 and PPC
6.4: i386
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1.1/distribution/rpm/SuSE/
Tru64 Systems: 4.0e,f,g, or 5.x
http://ftp.kde.org/stable/2.1.1/distribution/tar/Tru64/
Please check the servers periodically for pre-compiled packages for other
distributions. More binary packages will become available over the coming
days and weeks. In particular RedHat packages are expected soon.
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, anti-aliased font tutorials, 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.
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) 917 312 3122
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.Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.
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