http://www.h-online.com/open/news/it...s-1910514.html
I am, of course, proud of this:
And as a KDE guy, I'm looking forward to this:
The success of Wireshark still takes Gerald Combs by surprise even today: when he released the first version under the name Ethereal on 14 July 1998, the open source project triggered a wave of development contributions. Originally developed exclusively for Ethernet and TCP/IP, the project started to support protocols such as Token Ring, Novell IPX, DNS, IGMP, OSPF, RIP, DHCP, ISO/OSI, Banyan Vines, FDDI, Apple Talk and NetBIOS within the first year of its existence. This vigorous expansion demonstrated that, at a time when the market was still being dominated by Network General's expensive sniffer software, there was a strong need for a freely available network analysis tool. With the continuous integration of new dissectors (decoders) that were being contributed by hundreds of developers worldwide, Ethereal grew rapidly, wiping out commercial products. The tool now comprises two million lines of program code and registers half a million downloads per month.
Combs enjoys a high level of credibility, and the Wireshark community followed him when the product changed sponsors again in 2010. Since then, Riverbed Technology has financed the Wireshark project.
Other developers are working on the cross-platform Qt graphical user interface.