[dot] Quickies: Trolltech, KHTML, Kontact, VoIP and KOffice

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1117150344/

From: Jonathan Riddell <>
Dept: tres-vite
Date: Friday 27/May/2005, @01:32

Quickies: Trolltech, KHTML, Kontact, VoIP and KOffice
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   Trolltech announced a successful round of funding
[http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/announcements/00000206.html] and the
end of their relationship with SCO and Canopy
[http://www.trolltech.com/developer/affiliations.html]. Read more on
Scott Colin's blog
[http://scottcollins.net/blog/2005/05/sco-long-and-thanks-for-all-fish.html].
*** LWN.net has an article on KHTML and Apple
[http://lwn.net/Articles/136538/] featuring KDE e.V. board member Harri
Portenan. *** Open Source Versus did a screenshot comparison of KDE's
Kontact against two of its rivals
[http://opensourceversus.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=199].
*** We've been notified of a couple of promising looking Qt/KDE based
Internet telephony programmes, OpenWengo
[http://developer.berlios.de/projects/openwengo/] and Twinkle phone
[http://www.twinklephone.com/]. *** MEPIS have announced a low-resources
version of their distribution [http://www.mepis.org/node/6634] using
KOffice and if you havn't tried the recent KOffice 1.4 beta there are
now packages available
[http://download.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.4-beta1/] for Kubuntu,
Mandriva, SuSE and Slackware plus a special KOffice KOffice edition of
Klax Live CD
[http://download.kde.org/unstable/koffice-1.4-beta1/contrib/x86-livecd].