K Desktop Environment is een populaire desktop-omgeving voor GNU/Linux, FreeBSD en Solaris. KDE wordt geleverd met een standaard desktop inclusief vijftien applicaties zoals een Personal Information manager (PIM), programma's voor multimedia, administratie en netwerkbeheer, spelletjes, et cetera. De eerste release candidate van KDE 3.5 is door de ontwikkelaars de deur uitgedaan met de volgende aankondiging:
Hi!
KDE 3.5 is about to be finished, so we prepared a first release candidate.We want to have it tested as much as possible, so please test if possible. This release identifies itself in allmost all places already as version 3.5 and so do the tarballs file names.
You can download the release candidate sources from download.kde.org at http://download.kde.org/unstable/3.5-rc1/src
You can also use Konstruct to help you building the RC1 from sources. Get it from http://developer.kde.org/build/konstruct/
Because of the short timeframe for the release candidates we don't give the distributors a head start of one week for binary packages. Binary packages appear at http://download.kde.org/unstable/3.5-rc1 - so far Novell/SUSE has provided some and Kubuntu will add theirs during the weekend.
Thanks for your help in reporting bugs and giving feedback so far.
Greetings, Stephan