KDE releases documentary
Date:
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:24:31 +0000
Description:
As part of KDE's 30th
anniversary celebration , the project has released The KDE Documentary
A Story of Free Software Underdogs ( YouTube video ): The story starts in 1996, when Matthias Ettrich, a student at the University
of Tbingen, posted to a Usenet group asking for programmers to help build a desktop for Linux. What followed became KDE, one of the largest free software communities in the world. KDE made Linux usable as a desktop for people who weren't system administrators, giving it a complete, consistent graphical environment at a time when there was none. The film covers the highs and lows of three decades of KDE: the Qt licensing
fight and the rivalry with GNOME; the success of KHTML, the browser engine that
became the basis of Apple's WebKit and Google's Chrome; and the contentious release of KDE 4 and the rebuild that followed.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1100787/
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