The History of KDE

For KDE's history, we begin at the beginning, a little before it's true inception in 1996, and take you up to the RC1 of Plasma 6 in late January of 2024. 🤝Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace The email on October 14, 1996 to start it all https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux.misc/c/SDbiV3Iat_s/m/zv_D_2ctS8sJ KDE ONE https://web.archive.org/web/20180613130417/http://community.kde.org/KDE_Project_History/KDE_One_(Developer_Meeting) K Desktop Environment first real beta release https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/1.0-beta1/ Beta 1 Screenshots https://web.archive.org/web/19980129135932/http://www.kde.org/kscreenshots.html KDE 1.0 was released on July 12, 1998 https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/1.0/ 1998 Interview of Matthias Ettrich https://linux-center.org/articles/9809/interview.html KFM turned into Konqueror https://web.archive.org/web/20080723193818/http://konqueror.kde.org/faq#WheredoesthenameiKonqueroricomefrom Konqi https://community.kde.org/Konqi KDE 2.0 https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/2.0/ KDE 2.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20180613130417/https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.1.php In April of 2002, KDE 3.0 was released https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/3.0/ 2003 Interview of Matthias Ettrich https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6834 2004 Interview of Matthias Ettrich https://behindkde.org/matthias-ettrich-1 KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy" https://conference2004.kde.org/ 2005 Interview of Matthias Ettrich https://archive.fosdem.org/2005/2005/index/interviews/interviews_ettrich.html April 8, 2005 Kubuntu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubuntu#/media/File:Kubuntu.5.04.KDE.png KDE 3.5 https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/3.5/ KDE Four Core Meeting https://dot.kde.org/2006/06/26/kde-libs-hackers-meet-kde-four-core KDE 4 https://kde.org/announcements/4/4.0/ Oxygen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_Project 2008 Interview of Matthias Ettrich https://tfir.io/matthias-ettrich-creator-of-kde/ KDE hit the 1,000,000 commit https://dot.kde.org/2009/07/20/kde-reaches-1000000-commits-its-subversion-repository Starting from 4.3.4, is a "software compilation" https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3.4.php November 2009, K Desktop Environment is just KDE, now https://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand Fork of KDE 3.5 becomes Trinity Desktop Environment https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ KDE SC 4.5 https://www.kde.org/announcements/4.5/ October 2010, an official split from KOffice https://lwn.net/Articles/419822/ Plasma Active https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/ KDE Manifesto https://manifesto.kde.org/index.html December 2012, a redesigned Konqi http://tysontan.deviantart.com/art/Konqi-ver-2-494267237 KDE release structure changed https://dot.kde.org/2013/09/04/kde-release-structure-evolves KDE SC 4.14 the last in the series https://kde.org/announcements/4/4.14.0/ Plasma 5 and Frameworks 5 https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/ 2015 Wayland enters the room https://dot.kde.org/2015/12/18/first-plasma-wayland-live-image ... More history at https://linuxuserspace.show/412 ⭐⭐⭐⭐Producers ❤️ John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Johnny, Dave Jones ⭐⭐⭐Co-Producers ❤️ Tim LePés, GrouchyM ⭐⭐Super Users ❤️ Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, LiNuXsys666, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Paul Burton, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, Musical Coder, Larry Murphy, Hausken, Livet, Nick Woody, A.J. Robb, Mark the Saigoneer, Tobias Niedermayr, Pjol ⭐Users ❤️ Eduardo PH, Kyle, Jon Guthery, LqLarry, James Taylor 🌏Lemmy https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 🌏TILvids https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace 🌍Reddit https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit 🌎Discord https://linuxuserspace.show/discord 🌏Telegram https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram 🌍Matrix https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix 🌎Twitch https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch #KDE #Linux #History #Plasma #Debian #Ubuntu #Kubuntu #KDENeon