| KDE Targets Windows, Mac |
Jan. 24, 2008
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Developers of KDE, the popular Linux desktop environment, are targeting Windows and enhanced Macintosh support.
With release 4 of KDE, also known as the K Desktop Environment, officially announced Jan. 11, the developers of the free software environment said support for Windows and deep support for Mac OS X are on the horizon, with some pieces ready for evaluation now and others to be available by the summer.
At the KDE 4.0 launch event here at Google's headquarters on Jan. 18, Aaron Seigo, KDE project lead and vice president of KDE e.V., the governing body of KDE, said the goal of taking KDE cross-platform is "potentially one of the game-changers" for the technology and for open-source software in general.
In a keynote speech at the KDE 4.0 launch, Seigo said that developers “came to the realization that for every one of us programming on the free operating systems, there were hundreds [of programmers] on Windows and Macs, and we were losing an opportunity here of bringing free software to all of those individuals. ... So, in one sense, Windows and Mac had been sort of a free software ghetto, so with KDE 4 we worked on ports to Windows and Mac."
On Jan. 22, the KDE community released KDE mirror infrastructure to deliver KDE Windows packages to developers. The new KDE binaries for Windows are early components representative of additional KDE libraries and applications KDE plans to port to Windows as part of the KDE Windows Project.
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