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LinuxPR: New Beta KDE Release for Linux Desktop Ships

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 31, 2001

“New Beta Version of Leading Linux Desktop Offers New Theme
Manager, Image Viewer and IDE.”

“The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 2.1-beta2, a
powerful, modular, Internet-enabled desktop. KDE 2.1 constitutes
the second major release of the KDE 2 series, which is the next
generation of the award-winning KDE 1 series. KDE is the work
product of hundreds of dedicated developers originating from over
30 countries.”

“This is the last planned beta release before the scheduled
release of KDE 2.1 on February 19, 2001. KDE 2.1 offers a number of
additions, enhancements and fixes over KDE 2.0.1, the last stable
KDE release which shipped on December 5, 2000.”

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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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