KDE History
Announcement of KDE Project
Original announcement of the KDE Project in 1996
Developer Meetings
- KDE One - Arnsberg, Germany 1997
- KDE Two - Erlangen, Germany 1999
- KDE Three Beta - Trysil, Norway 2000
- KDE Three - Nürnberg, Germany, 2002
- Kastle - Nové Hrady, Czech Republic 2003
- aKademy - Ludwigsburg, Germany 2004
The History of the KDE Project
At the 2003 Kastle conference Matthias Kalle Dalheimer gave a presentation about the history of the KDE project.
Food for thought
We thought it might be a nice idea to not only offer you lots of free software on our web site but also some documents that could assist you in understanding Linux (the development platform of choice for most KDE developers), the FSF, Richard Stallman, KDE development and other related issues better. If you are new to the world of KDE and Unix, you might have trouble making sense of the following collection of articles. Nevertheless we hope that the documents provided here prove informative and interesting to the developers and advanced Unix users among you.
- An interview with Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux. Linus commands enormous respect among the free software community.
- An interview with Richard Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Richard Stallman and some of his followers have been prone to critisize KDE for using the Qt toolkit while building KDE. We hope the interview will be helpful in building your own opinion about Richard and his beliefs.
The following two articles might help you to better understand why we develop KDE the way we doo:
- The famous section 'Worse is Better', taken from a paper by Richard P. Gabriel. The full article can be found here
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar. An insightful article written by Eric S. Raymond about free software development.
The famous comp.os.minix thread should tie in nicely with the above two articles:
The famous historic comp.os.minix.thread "Linux is obsolete". An interesting discussion mainly between Andy Tanenbaum, a well known Professor of Computer Science at the Free University of Amsterdam and Linus Torvalds. Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum is the author of several books on operating systems and the primary author of minix a Unix like operating system. His books were read by a whole generation of Computer Science students. The article is a must read for any Linux user.
Miguel de Icaza and Richard Stallman's views on KDE.
