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Happy 30th Birthday, KDE!

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9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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Today, KDE, one of the largest active free software communities in the world, celebrates its 30th anniversary since German computer science student Matthias Ettrich announced the project on Usenet.

On October 14th, 1996, Matthias Ettrich proposed a consistent, easy-to-use desktop environment for Unix-like systems. He called it the “Kool Desktop Environment” (KDE) — a deliberate jab at CDE, the proprietary Common Desktop Environment dominant at the time. What followed was 30 years of remarkable momentum.

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