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aKademy 2005 promises a bright future for KDE uses

The news from the KDE developer conference KDE is beaming in and shows a great bright future for KDE-users everywhere. Novell svore loyalty to Linux, the Kolab Groupware Solution and the long-awaited Kiosk desktop management framework was presented and the shape of KDE 4.0 determined.

aKademy is a important KDE conference where developers comspire and plot the future of the KDE desktop and the great variety of applications available for it.

So far, this has been indicated:

Novell, who reciently bought SuSE and made it OpenSuSE, uncovered the shocking fact that Kopete is the single only KDE program used in-house at Novell.
A KDE version of Firefox is under development headed by Dirk Mueller
KCall, a long-forgotten VoIP KDE client, has now been revived from the dead and is currently being rewritten as part Google Summer of Code
Michael Larouche is working on a X-Mame front-end for KDE codenamed Kamefu (KDE All-Machine Emulator Frontend for UNIX). Kamefu will allow you to manage and start games (roms) and have plug-ins for chiptune formats like NSF, SPC and PSF.
The KDE 3.5 branch is stable enough to be tried by brave, skilled and experienced users.
Krita, the graphics suite, is being rapidly improved and it will, if this keeps up, soon grow better than GIMP and even Photoshop. A presentation which is now available as slideshow http://koffice.kde.org/krita/akademy2005.pdf] and ogg formatted audio files http://www.polinux.upv.es/~vfernandez/akademy2005/

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