KDE 2.2 Released, Aug 15, 2001

The KDE Project today announced the immediate release of KDE 2.2, a powerful and easy-to-use Internet-enabled desktop for Linux and other UNIXes. Consistent with KDE's rapid and disciplined development pace, the release of KDE 2.2 features an impressive catalog of speed/performance enhancements, feature additions and stability improvements. KDE 2.2 is available in 34 languages and ships with the core KDE libraries, the core desktop environment, and over 100 applications from the other base KDE packages (administration, multimedia, network, PIM, development, etc.).

I remember reading a while back that Sun's Scott McNealy said that users just needed a good text editor. Since adopting Linux for my daily chores, I have to agree with him. I've tried every editor in the Linux world and have settled on NEdit for my text editing needs.

Taking aim at Netscape's grasp of the Linux market, Opera Software has released an alpha of their Opera 5.05 browser with an important feature -- support for Netscape plug-ins including Java. The Linux Technology Preview serves as an update to Opera 5.0, adding the ability to run plug-ins designed for Netscape, such as Flash, Acrobat Reader and perhaps most importantly, Sun Java 2 Runtime Environment.

In a series of reports over the next six weeks, IDC will declare that Linux is well-positioned to continue gaining ground in businesses at the expense of other platforms. The company predicts that end-customer spending on Linux hardware, software, services and staffing will grow to 9 percent of companies' IT budgets in 2002, up from 3 percent in 1999.

With solid year-to-year growth and a broad potential market that is currently using or experimenting with it, the open-source Linux platform is gaining ground in the information technology (IT) budgets of companies worldwide, analysts at IDC said Tuesday.

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