[dot] KDE at USENIX 2004 Annual Technical Conference

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1091054636/

From: Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>
Dept: spreading-the-word
Date: Thursday29/Jul/2004, @00:43

KDE at USENIX 2004 Annual Technical Conference
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   From June 27th to July 2nd 2004 the USENIX Annual Technical
Conference [http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/] took place at
Boston. The FREENIX track
[http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/freenix.html] featured a
refereed paper about Kontact and how it is used as an application
integration framework which was presented by Cornelius Schumacher
[schumacher at kde.org]. You can find the paper
[http://www.kontact.org/files/kontact_freenix_paper.pdf] and the slides
[http://www.kontact.org/files/kontact_freenix_slides.pdf] of the
presentation at the Kontact home page [http://www.kontact.org].
  The conference also featured a lot of other interesting talks
[http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/onefile.html]. To name only
a few: Matthias Ettrich [ettrich at kde.org] presented the technical
changes in Qt 4, in the plenary session Bruce Schneier held a
thought-inspiring talk about how security-tradeoffs influence our lives
and how we might be able to handle this in a sensible way and Rob Pike
gave some insight in the amazing technology Google uses to power their
search engine. One of the talks which was awarded as best paper in the
FREENIX track was about "Wayback, a versioning file system for Linux"
[http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/freenix/cornell.html]. This
could be an interesting technology to be integrated with KDE, for
example with the file dialog. A BoF session about "Locking Down
Enterprise KDE & KDE 3.3.3 Preview for Administrators" showed again the
great interest in the KDE desktop lock-down features which are provided
by the KIOSK framework and in particular the KIOSK Admin Tool
[http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kiosktool.php]. The week after the
conference code was put behind the talks. The KDE project released the
first beta of Kontact 1.0 as part of KDE 3.3 Beta 1
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.3beta1.php] released,
Trolltech released the first technology preview of Qt 4
[http://dot.kde.org/1089303565/] and Waldo Bastian released version 0.6
[http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12028] of the KIOSK
Admin Tool.