Linux User Space

Coming up in this episode

• Notating the Notes
• The History of KDE
• And Plasma, Straight from the Tap

Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:44 A Note on Notes
22:52 The History of KDE
28:29 History: KDE 1
30:42 History: KDE 2
33:03 History: KDE 3
36:21 History: KDE 4
45:36 History: Plasma 5
51:34 History: Plasma 6
53:17 Plasma 6 Raw (hide)
1:20:49 Next Time: Topics, then MATE
1:27:37 Stinger

Watch the video
https://youtu.be/CsdW0bDOjIM

• Leo hits the books and learns about reference style links in markdown. Thanks go to Dominic and Furicle.
• Eric mentioned MarkText and now the squirrels have Dan chasing that.
• Leo tries settling on Vivaldi Notes.

This program was made possible by:

• ????️Youtube
• ????️TILvids
• And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons like you ????

• The email on October 14, 1996 to start it all.
• KDE ONE
• K Desktop Environment first real beta release.
• Beta 1 Screenshots
• KDE 1.0 was released on July 12, 1998.
• 1998 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• KFM turned into Konqueror.
• Konqi
• KDE 2.0
• KDE 2.1
• In April of 2002, KDE 3.0 was released.
• 2003 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• 2004 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy".
• 2005 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• April 8, 2005 Kubuntu.
• KDE 3.5
• KDE Four Core Meeting
• KDE 4
• Oxygen
• 2008 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• KDE hit the 1,000,000 commit
• Starting from 4.3.4, is a "software compilation".
• November 2009, K Desktop Environment is just KDE, now.
• Fork of KDE 3.5 becomes Trinity Desktop Environment.
• KDE SC 4.5.
• October 2010, an official split from KOffice
• Plasma Active
• KDE Manifesto
• December 2012, a redesigned Konqi.
• KDE release structure changed.
• KDE SC 4.14 the last in the series.
• Plasma 5 and Frameworks 5
• 2015 Wayland enters the room.
• Plasma Mobile
• Plasma Bigscreen
• KDE Neon
• Slimbook
• KDE Plasma is chosen for the Steam Deck when in Desktop Mode!
• The development and chat platforms move to Gitlab and Matrix.
• The first release candidate for Plasma 6
• Plasma 6's release date is planned for February 28th of 2024.

• Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy

Catch all the great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord or Lemmy.

• ????️ Linux User Space Lemmy
• ???? Linux User Space subreddit
• ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server
• ???? Linux User Space Telegram
• ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix
• ????️ Linux User Space Twitch
• ???? Linux User Space Mastodon
• ???? Linux User Space Twitter
• ????️ Linux User Space TILVids

Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is the Mate Desktop Environment.

Stay tuned ???? and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show.

We would like to acknowledge ???? our top patrons. Thank you ???? for your support!

• Bruno
• Dave
• John
• Johnny

• Tim
• GrouchyM

• A.J.
• Advait
• CubicleNate
• Eduardo S.
• Hausken
• Jill and Steve
• Larry
• LiNuXsys666
• Livet
• Musical Coder
• Nicholas
• Nick
• sleepyeyesvince
• The Saigoneer
• Tobias

Support Linux User Space