Site Launch Announcement

May 2, 2000 (New York, New York). The KDE Team is pleased to announce the launch of Konqueror.org, a website devoted to Konqueror, KDE's next-generation, full-featured, powerful, flexible, modular and Internet-transparent file manager, web browser and universal document viewer.

Konqueror, which has been widely acclaimed as a technological break-through for the Linux desktop, has a component-based architecture which combines the features and functionality of Internet Explorer^®/Netscape Communicator^® and Windows Explorer^®. Konqueror supports all major Internet technologies, including JavaScript^TM, Java^®, HTML 4.0, CSS-2 (Cascading Style Sheets), SSL (Secure Socket Layer for secure communications) and, in the near future, Netscape^® plugins (for viewing Flash^TM, RealAudio^TM, RealVideo^TM and similar technologies). In addition, Konqueror's network transparency offers seamless support for browsing Linux^® NFS shares, Windows^® SMB shares and FTP directories. Konqueror will ship as part of the highly anticipated release of KDE 2.0, targeted for mid-summer 2000.

Konqueror's developers created Konqueror.org to serve as Konqueror's official website. There users can learn about Konqueror's many powerful features, keep abreast of the latest Konqueror news and developments, learn how to download and install Konqueror and submit comments and questions to Konqueror developers. Developers can learn how they can use Konqueror to web-enable their applications, how they can enable their applications to serve as a Konqueror component and how they can contribute to Konqueror's ongoing development.

"While the site offers rich content already - including a number of mouth-watering screenshots - it is a work in progress and we will certainly continually improve it", said Chris Lee, webmaster and principal architect of the site. "We plan to add tutorials and FAQs for users, include a plug-in and component directory and supplement the developer's news and tutorials. This will be the site to go to for official, as well as unofficial, Konqueror news and information."

"Konqueror is an extremely promising technology which is poised to revolutionize Linux not only on the corporate and consumer desktops but also on networked appliances and personal digital assistants", said Andreas Pour, President of MieTerra LLC. "With the new web site, the Konqueror developers are again demonstrating their deep commitment to support their users, assist third-party developers and create the world's premier browser."

About KDE

KDE is a collaborative project by hundreds of developers worldwide to create a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop environment employing a network-transparent, intuitive user interface. Currently development is focused on KDE 2, which will for the first time offer a free, open source, fully-featured office suite and which promises to make the Linux desktop as easy to use as Windows^® and the Macintosh^® while remaining loyal to open standards and empowering developers and users with open source software. KDE is working proof of how the open source software development model can create technologies on par with and superior to even the most complex commercial software.

For more information about KDE, please visit KDE's web site.

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