Show Notes
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
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🔥Warm Up🔥
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.
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The History of KDE
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.
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