Happy Birthday KDE

[kc1di]

I found this history of KDE interesting it's 22 years old. https://itsfoss.com/kde-facts-trivia/.
Happy 22nd!

[GreyGeek]

I had been running RH5.0 since May of 1998. It replaced Win95, which was crashing on my brand new Sony VIAO desktop on an average of once every twenty minutes or so. RH never crashed once from May until September of 1998, when I read about the release of KDE 1.0 beta in SuSE 5.3. The pictures of KDE in the article showed a DE that was even better looking than Win95 and described features that Win95 didn’t have.

I switched to SuSE that September and it remained as my DE until Novell bought it and then joined forces with M$, five years later. A replacement distro had only one requirement: its DE had to be KDE.

Between 2003 and 2009 I used Mandrake, Mandriva, Mephis, PCLinuxOS and back to Mandriva, with short stops at LibraNet, Kannotex, Kannopix and a few others. In January of 2009, while running Mandriva (or what ever it was named at the time), read that Kubuntu was going to be released with KDE 4.0. Mandriva didn’t plan on including it till September.

I installed Kubuntu 9.04 Alpha in January of 2009. In February I found this cool, friendly forum. The rest is also history. I had one dalliance with the Neon User Edition for the year preceding the release of Kubuntu Bionic, but it was like dating your girlfriend’s twin sister.

[kc1di]

Hi GG,
Quite an adventure I too was running RH5.0 in 1998 before that Slackware. But went to Mandrake and stayed with it until it changed names. Then ran PCLinuxOS for about 2 years and mepis for awhile. Recently have been using Mint. But they dropped KDE. So here I am with Kubuntu. KDE has been a great DE.

[GreyGeek]

@kc1di, Great indeed! Kubuntu Bionic has been, like every version before it since I began using Kubuntu with the 9.04 Alpha, GOLDEN! Ditto for Neon User Edition, which I used for about a year or so before switching back to Kubuntu. I consider Kubuntu and Neon identical twins who occasionally dress up in different clothes.