KDE Wins Award For Best Linux Desktop Environment Of 2003

KDE won the Award for Desktop Environment of the Year in the 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards with a convincing 55% of the votes. The KDE web development tool Quanta Plus won an award in the Web Development Editor of the Year category with 49% of the votes.

(PRWEB) January 12, 2004

KDE Wins 2003 Best Desktop Environment Award

KDE won the Award for Desktop Environment of the Year in the 2003 linuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards with a convincing 55% of the votes. Runner up was the less popular GNOME environment with 30% of the votes. The KDE web development tool Quanta Plus won an award in the Web Development Editor of the Year category with 49% of the votes.

KDE developer Waldo Bastian welcomed the prize, `Congratulations go to everyone who has helped to make this software such a success and a big "Thank You" goes to all KDE users who have taken the time to vote for

their favorite desktop. With KDE 3.2 coming out soon we hope that we can make 2004 an even bigger success for KDE than 2003 has proven to be!'

The award will be handed over on the Linuxworld Expo in New York where KDE will be present to showcase the upcoming KDE 3.2 version of the desktop environment.

Links

http://www.kde.org/

http://www.kde.org/awards/

http://quanta.sf.net

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116365

About KDE

KDE is an independent project of hundreds of developers, translators, graphical artists and other professionals worldwide collaborating over the Internet to create and freely distribute a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop and office environment employing a flexible, component-based, network-transparent architecture and offering an outstanding development platform. See http://www.kde.org for more information.

About Quanta Plus

Quanta Plus is a project within KDE consisting of a small group of developers worldwide focused on supporting web developers with the most efficient, stable, powerful and extensible tool set anywhere for creating and editing HTML and XML based markup, PHP and other scripting languages. Quanta Plus leverages the rich high level components available in KDE along with the excellent KDE design environment to advance at a rapid pace. An impressive suite of plug-in tools allows Quanta Plus to be easily accessible for first time web designers while also providing many in-depth tools for serious professional developers that make Quanta Plus a clear first choice for them.

See http://quanta.sf.net for more information.

For more information about KDE contact:

Matthias Kalle Dalheimer

Phone: +46-563-540023

Fax: +46-563-540028

EMail: info-europe@kde.org

George Staikos

Phone: (416)-925-4030

EMail: info-northamerica@kde.org

For more information about Quanta Plus contact:

Eric Laffoon

Phone: (503)-848-0458

sequitur@kde.org

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