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K Desktop Environment Adopts Mascot

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 24, 1999

New KDE Mascot Available on T-Shirts, Too

May 24, 1999 – The K Desktop Environment (KDE) Team
(http://www.kde.org) recently celebrated the release of the
official KDE mascot (http://www.kde.org/kde-stuff.html).
The KDE mascot, a gentle dragon named “Konqi”, is very popular with
KDE users.

At the same time, KDE announced that t-shirts featuring Konqi
are available from MieTerra (http://www.mieterra.com). “The mascot
design by two very talented volunteer artists is perfect for a
t-shirt”,

said Andreas Pour, President of MieTerra. “And KDE users can
support KDE by purchasing a t-shirt, since we will contribute half
of the profits to KDE.”

To learn more about KDE, please visit http://www.kde.org/whatiskde. To
learn more about MieTerra, please visit http://www.mieterra.com/about.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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