New Release of Award-Winning Linux Desktop GUI Increases
Stability and Ease -of-Use
New York May 3, 1999 The K Desktop Environment® (KDE) Team
(http://www.kde.org) today
announced the shipment of KDE 1.1.1, the latest stable release of
Linux’s most advanced open source desktop environment.
By offering an elegant, intuitive and familiar interface marked
by ease-of-use comparable to the popular ~W but proprietary ~W
Windows~Y interfaces, KDE 1.1.1 unleashes the power, freedom and
potential of Linux for the typical home or office user. In
recognition of KDE’s usability, KDE was recently awarded the
Ziff-Davis® “Innovation of the year 1998/1999” award in the
Software category.
“Congratulations to the KDE team on a super job with the new
release,” said Dr. Michael Cowpland, president and CEO of
Corel® Corporation (NASDAQ: COSFF, TSE:COS). “The KDE project
is doing a terrific job of bringing Linux to the desktop which is
why we’re basing the GUI for our desktop Linux distribution on KDE.
We look forward to the improvements in KDE 1.1.1.”
“KDE 1.1.1 continues KDE’s leadership and widens its lead over
other Linux desktop alternatives by establishing new desktop
standards in stability, ease-of-use and customization,” said Ransom
Love, President of Caldera® Systems, Inc. “We chose KDE for
OpenLinux® because it’s suitable for business and mainstream
use, and the Ziff-Davis innovation award underscores that
choice.”
Virtually all Linux distributors include KDE in their
distributions, making it the de facto desktop standard for
Linux.
KDE 1.1.1 builds on the well-received release of KDE 1.1.
providing its users with increased stability and ease-of-use .It
incorporates many user suggestions and provides a number of
enhancements, including:
- improved integration between korganizer, a sophisticated
calendaring and scheduling program, and kpilot, a Palm-pilot
synchronization tool; - improved Internet connectivity; and
- increased stability and additional features in a range of
desktop components.
KDE 1.1.1 is available for free download from numerous mirrors
(see http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html)
and also from KDE’s primary ftp server (ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/).
It will also be available in most future Linux and *BSD
distributions.
User support for KDE is provided by Linux vendors who include
KDE in their distributions. Users may also receive free support
from an international group of KDE aficionados by subscribing to
the KDE mailing lists. Please visit http://www.kde.org/contact.html
for more information.
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. In addition, many KDE users assisted in the preparation
of the 1.1.1 release by providing constructive feedback,
suggestions and software patches. KDE is working proof of the power
of the open source software development model. For more information
about KDE, please visit http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/.