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.
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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
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
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Thanks for the awesome story telling. Loved everything… KDE is is here to stay… long live KDE…
~ A Proud Full-Time KDE user KDE since 2018-19 at my home PC
I knew it existed, wish I had started using Linux before to experience KDE 4 and all the discussions.
comprehensive, here, have my subscription 🙂
are you doing an emerge -e @world in the background?
Oh man. I remember when KDE 4 came out. Boy was it bad! There were so many bugs. And the performance was horrendous. Just like Linus, I also switched to Gnome, then stayed with MATE up until very recently. I finally gave KDE another shot starting in 2020 and have been very happy with how it turned out.
As a daily Kubuntu user, this video was very interesting and informative
Great history of KDE, particularly interesting to hear the background behind the KDE 4.0 release. I was already a GNOME user at that time having started with Ubuntu Linux 2007, but I was but off trying KDE by the negative reporting of it in the Linux press, and those I was in contact with in the Linux community. Still to this day I've never really given KDE Plasma in it's current form a long go as my main Desktop, having been a Mate user since I changed over to Linux Mint when Ubuntu went all UNITY on us. Although I'm currently running LMDE on this laptop so am using Cinnamon when mobile, although the Static PC is still running Mint 21.3 with Mate.
PS I enjoy these shorter video's as they fit better with my viewing schedule, the full 90-120+ minutes of the full show is a bit long in all one sitting.
Great content, really enjoy your history segment!