18 Facts About KDE

KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software.

Name KDE was intended as a wordplay on the existing Common Desktop Environment, available for Unix systems.

Therefore, the KDE initialism expanded to "K Desktop Environment" before it was dropped altogether in favor of simply KDE in a rebranding effort.

KDE neon is a software repository that uses Ubuntu LTS as a core.

On 20 July 2009, KDE announced that the one millionth commit has been made to its Subversion repository.

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On 11 October 2009, Cornelius Schumacher, a main developer within KDE, wrote about the estimated cost to develop KDE software package with 4, 273, 291 LoC, which would be about US$175, 364, 716.

KDE's was presented in 2010 and is appointed as a mascot for the KDE women's community.

KDE has community identity guidelines for definitions and recommendations which help the community to establish a unique, characteristic, and appealing design.

Many KDE applications have a K in the name, mostly as an initial letter.

The K in many KDE applications is obtained by spelling a word which originally begins with C or Q differently, for example Konsole and Kaffeine, while some others prefix a commonly used word with a K, for instance KGet.

In 2009 and 2011, GNOME and KDE co-hosted their conferences Akademy and GUADEC under the Desktop Summit label.

In October 2018, Red Hat declared that KDE Plasma was no longer supported in future updates of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, though it continues to be part of Fedora.

Camp KDE is another annual contributor's conference of the KDE community.

Camp KDE 2010 took place at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, US.

Camp KDE 2011 was held at Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco, US, was co-located with the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.

Season of KDE is an outreach program hosted by the KDE community.

KDE participates in other conferences that revolve around free software.

KDE software is running on computers in Portuguese and Venezuelan schools, with respectively 700, 000 and one million systems reached.