KNOPPIX 3.6 'AKADEMY EDITION' ANNOUNCED AT KDE WORLD SUMMIT

DATELINE August 23, 2004
Web URL: Web URL: http://conference2004.kde.org/announcements/knoppix_announcement.php

To celebrate the start of the CodeMarathon event at the KDE World Summit 2004, the KDE Project and Knoppix proudly announce Knoppix 3.6, dubbed 'aKademy Edition'. Last-minute bugs were fixed, and the finished version demonstrated exclusively in an aKademy tutorial on Knoppix, indicative of the strong relationship between the Knoppix and KDE developer and user communities. 

Klaus Knopper, said: "Since the first Knoppix version users have been using KDE and are very comfortable with its efficiency and userfriendliness."

Building on their successful LiveCD platform, Knoppix 3.6 comes with KDE 3.2.3 and the FreeNX Server, which is the speed boosting NX Terminal Server technology in KDE. In presentations at LinuxTag and aKademy, co-authors Fabian Franz and Kurt Pfeifle impressed audiences showing how FreeNX with KDE can provide multiple reliable remote X connections, a huge advantage for KDE developers and Knoppix users alike.

Check the Knoppix mirrors for downloading the ISO. Also you can get FreeNX packages at Kalyxo.

NOTES TO EDITORS:

For more information on Knoppix, see their web site:
http://www.knoppix.org

For information on Kalyxo:
http://www.kalyxo.org

For more information on No Machine and NX:
http://www.nomachine.com/resources.php

For more information on aKademy, including the detailed schedule:
http://conference2004.kde.org


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About Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart Gmbh (WRS)

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the field of economic development and in 2004 is running an 
all-year campaign to help advance the deployment of Open Source 
Software in private and public entities in the Stuttgart region 
(http://opensource.region-stuttgart.de/).

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CONTACT INFORMATION

KDE Project
 Kurt Pfeifle
 Phone +49-172-715-7017
 Email: pfeifle@kde.org
 
Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart
 Hans-Ulrich Schmid
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 Mobile +49-172-731-0463
 Email: hschmid@region-stuttgart.de

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