Developer(s) | The KDE Team |
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Stable release | |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Desktop environment |
License | GNU General Public License and others |
Website | www.kde.org |
KDE is a community that produces free software, including a desktop environment called KDE Plasma for operating systems based on Linux or UNIX. This replaces the console, which is simply a black screen with text on it. KDE Plasma is a popular piece of software for users of Linux and UNIX.
Plasma runs on top of the X Window System, which runs on top of any UNIX-like operating systems like Linux and Mac OS X. Since KDE SC 4.0, many KDE programs also run on Microsoft Windows.
The following table lists when each version of KDE was released.
Timeline of when KDE was released. | ||
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Date | Release | |
KDE 1 | ||
14 October 1996 | Project announced by Matthias Ettrich[2] | |
12 July 1998 | KDE 1.0 released[3] | |
6 February 1999 | KDE 1.1 released[4] | |
KDE 2 | ||
23 October 2000 | KDE 2.0 released[5] | |
26 February 2001 | KDE 2.1 released[6] | |
15 August 2001 | KDE 2.2 released[7] | |
KDE 3 | ||
3 April 2002 | KDE 3.0 released[8] | |
28 January 2003 | KDE 3.1 released[9] | |
3 February 2004 | KDE 3.2 released[10] | |
19 August 2004 | KDE 3.3 released[11] | |
16 March 2005 | KDE 3.4 released[12] | |
29 November 2005 | KDE 3.5 released[13] | |
KDE 4 | ||
11 January 2008 | KDE 4.0 released[14] | |
29 July 2008 | KDE 4.1 released[15] | |
27 January 2009 | KDE 4.2 released[16] | |
4 August 2009 | KDE 4.3 released[17] | |
9 February 2010 | KDE 4.4 released[18] |
There are several major applications for KDE. These include: