The History of KDE

For KDE's history, we begin at the beginning, a little before it's true inception in 1996, and take you up to the RC1 of Plasma 6 in late January of 2024. 🤝Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace 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