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KDE is now 25 years old, having been announced in October 1996. Matthias Ettrich announced the creation of Kool Desktop Environment (KDE), a graphical interface for Unix systems, built with Qt and C ++ and designed for the end user. The name “KDE” was a pun on the graphic environment CDE, which was proprietary at the time.
The original announcement by Matthias Ettrich was made in Usenet group de.comp.os.linux.misc. The idea was:
[...] NOT to create a GUI for the complete UNIX-system or the System-Administrator. For that purpose the UNIX-CLI with thousands of tools and scripting languages is much better. The idea is to create a GUI for an ENDUSER. Somebody who wants to browse the web with Linux, write some letters and play some nice games.
KDE looked kinda like windows '95 in it's beginnings, this made me have a flashback, back when I started studying computer programming in '97 and all the PC's used Win95,
Debian 12 Gnome on a MSI H61M-P25 (B3) PC & on a Dell Latitude E6410 & HP EliteBook 8540p Laptops.
LMDE 6 on a Panasonic ToughBook CF-C1 Laptop.
Bodhi Linux 7 on a HP Compaq DC5750 Small Form Factor PC.
Windows 11 on a Intel DH55TC PC.
eor2004 wrote: ↑2021-10-16 16:46
KDE looked kinda like windows '95 in it's beginnings, this made me have a flashback, back when I started studying computer programming in '97 and all the PC's used Win95,
Once all the rubbish is removed from Windows 10 it kinda looks the same as Plasma 5 too. The original desktop paradigm invented by Xerox PARC and stolen by MS, Apple, KDE and many others still serves us very well today.
Happy Birthday KDE!
“ computer users can be divided into 2 categories:
Those who have lost data
...and those who have not lost data YET ”Remember toBACKUP!
KDE was one of my first contacts with Linux/UNIX back in 1999. I was amazed at how, next to looking very similar to Windows 95, it managed to offer a super complete software collection that would have cost a fortune on Windows.
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sunrat wrote: ↑2021-10-16 21:15
Once all the rubbish is removed from Windows 10 it kinda looks the same as Plasma 5 too.