Linux archeology: KDE 0.1

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Subject	Linux archeology: KDE 0.1
Newsgroups	comp.misc
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Organization	blocknews - www.blocknews.net
Date	2019-03-28 22:03 -0400

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From the «all downhill from there» department:
Title: Linux archaeology: KDE 0.1
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:29:15 -0400
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/129701/linux-archaeology-kde-0-1/

A user by the name of grem75 has uploaded two screenshots of KDE 0.1 to imgur,
and they offer a very intriguing look at just how far we’ve come. I’ve only
found this RPM, no source unfortunately. This is installed on Red Hat 4.1 with
Qt 1.33. Impressive amount of progress for being so early in development. The
project had been announced in October 1996, this package was built in February
1997. There really were no complete desktop environments available for Linux at
the time, most distros shipped with FVWM and some assortment of applications
from various toolkits. Gnome didn’t start until August of 1997. XFCE existed,
but was just a panel for FVWM. I’ve recently made the jump from Windows 10 to
KDE Neon on my laptop, and after so many rocky years through KDE 4.x, I have to
say the KDE desktop environment currently exists in an incredibly polished and
attractive state, striking a perfect balance between attractiveness, usability,
and customisability. KDE is currently an absolute pleasure to use for me, and I
can’t wait to see what else they’ve got coming up (preferably a lot of work on
either reworking or replacing Kmail with a smaller, more focused email
application). In any event, this is the first time I’ve felt at home on a
desktop environment on Linux since the glory days of GNOME 2.x and KDE 3.x, and
I couldn’t be happier. These two KDE 0.1 screenshots remind me of just how far
we’ve come.

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Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-28 22:03 -0400
  Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2019-03-29 06:36 +0000
  Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2019-04-04 16:07 +0000
    Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-04 17:16 +0000
      Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-04 21:15 +0000
        Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-04 19:03 -0400
          Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-05 07:46 +0000
            Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-05 07:56 +0000
              Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-05 16:35 +0000
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-04-06 02:49 -0300
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-06 09:07 +0000
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-06 07:48 -0400
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-06 11:56 +0000
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-06 09:44 -0400
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-06 13:53 +0000
                Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-06 13:35 +0000
          Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-05 13:35 +0000
            Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-05 13:38 +0000
              Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-05 16:36 +0000
    Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2019-04-05 12:25 +0300
    Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-17 21:39 +0000
      Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-06-18 00:22 +0000
      Re: Linux archeology: KDE 0.1 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-06-19 06:46 +0000

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