Coming up in this episode * Notating the Notes * The History of KDE * And Plasma, Straight from the Tap Timestamps 0:00 Cold Open 1:44 A Note on Notes 22:52 The History of KDE 28:29 History: KDE 1 30:42 History: KDE 2 33:03 History: KDE 3 36:21 History: KDE 4 45:36 History: Plasma 5 51:34 History: Plasma 6 53:17 Plasma 6 Raw (hide) 1:20:49 Next Time: Topics, then MATE 1:27:37 Stinger Watch the video https://youtu.be/CsdW0bDOjIM 🔥Warm Up🔥 Leo hits the books and learns about reference style links (https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#reference-style-links) in markdown. Thanks go to Dominic and Furicle. Eric mentioned MarkText (https://www.marktext.cc) and now the squirrels have Dan chasing that. Leo tries settling on Vivaldi Notes (https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tools/notes-manager/). 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube (https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace) * 📽️TILvids (https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace) * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace) like you 😍 The History of KDE The email on October 14, 1996 to start it all. (https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux.misc/c/SDbiV3Iat_s/m/zv_D_2ctS8sJ) KDE ONE (https://web.archive.org/web/20180613130417/http://community.kde.org/KDE_Project_History/KDE_One_(Developer_Meeting)) K Desktop Environment first real beta release (https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/1.0-beta1/). Beta 1 Screenshots (https://web.archive.org/web/19980129135932/http://www.kde.org/kscreenshots.html) KDE 1.0 was released on July 12, 1998 (https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/1.0/). 1998 Interview of Matthias Ettrich (https://linux-center.org/articles/9809/interview.html) KFM turned into Konqueror (https://web.archive.org/web/20080723193818/http://konqueror.kde.org/faq#WheredoesthenameiKonqueroricomefrom). Konqi (https://community.kde.org/Konqi) KDE 2.0 (https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/2.0/) KDE 2.1 (https://web.archive.org/web/20180613130417/https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.1.php) In April of 2002, KDE 3.0 (https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/3.0/) was released. 2003 Interview of Matthias Ettrich (https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6834) 2004 Interview of Matthias Ettrich (https://behindkde.org/matthias-ettrich-1) KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy" (https://conference2004.kde.org/). 2005 Interview of Matthias Ettrich (https://archive.fosdem.org/2005/2005/index/interviews/interviews_ettrich.html) April 8, 2005 Kubuntu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubuntu#/media/File:Kubuntu.5.04.KDE.png). KDE 3.5 (https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/3.5/) KDE Four Core Meeting (https://dot.kde.org/2006/06/26/kde-libs-hackers-meet-kde-four-core) KDE 4 (https://kde.org/announcements/4/4.0/) Oxygen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_Project) 2008 Interview of Matthias Ettrich (https://tfir.io/matthias-ettrich-creator-of-kde/) KDE hit the 1,000,000 commit (https://dot.kde.org/2009/07/20/kde-reaches-1000000-commits-its-subversion-repository) Starting from 4.3.4 (https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3.4.php), is a "software compilation". November 2009, K Desktop Environment is just KDE (https://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand), now. Fork of KDE 3.5 becomes Trinity Desktop Environment (https://www.trinitydesktop.org/). KDE SC 4.5 (https://www.kde.org/announcements/4.5/). October 2010, an official split from KOffice (https://lwn.net/Articles/419822/) Plasma Active (https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/) KDE Manifesto (https://manifesto.kde.org/index.html) December 2012, a redesigned Konqi (http://tysontan.deviantart.com/art/Konqi-ver-2-494267237). KDE release structure changed (https://dot.kde.org/2013/09/04/kde-release-structure-evolves). KDE SC 4.14 (https://kde.org/announcements/4/4.14.0/) the last in the series. Plasma 5 (https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/) and Frameworks 5 (https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.0.php) 2015 Wayland enters the room. (https://dot.kde.org/2015/12/18/first-plasma-wayland-live-image) Plasma Mobile (https://dot.kde.org/2015/07/25/plasma-mobile-free-mobile-platform) Plasma Bigscreen (https://plasma-bigscreen.org/) KDE Neon (https://dot.kde.org/2016/01/30/fosdem-announcing-kde-neon) Slimbook (https://dot.kde.org/2017/01/26/kde-and-slimbook-release-laptop-kde-fans) KDE Plasma is chosen (https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech) for the Steam Deck when in Desktop Mode! The development and chat platforms move to Gitlab (https://about.gitlab.com/press/releases/2019-09-17-gitlab-adopted-by-KDE.html) and Matrix (https://community.kde.org/Matrix). The first release candidate for Plasma 6 (https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/rc1/) Plasma 6's release date is planned for February 28th of 2024. 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