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ZDNet: Kopernicus: Linux made easy

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) 2.0 product — aka
Kopernicus — is designed to make Linux and Unix desktops easier to
use.

“KDE Team officials, in a news release issued Monday, said that
the hundreds of open-source developers who worked on Kopernicus
basically re-engineered the KDE 1 environment.”

“Kopernicus includes the Konqueror Web browser and file manager;
the first release of KOffice, an integrated office suite; KParts
component object tools; and other elements aimed at both developers
and end users. Kopernicus also includes more than 100 applications
for games, graphics, administration, and utilities.”

“KOffice consists of a spreadsheet application (KSpread), a
vector drawing application (KIllustrator), a frame-based
word-processing application (KWord), a presentation program
(KPresenter), and a chart and diagram application (KChart).”

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