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KDE (/ˌkeɪdiːˈiː/) is an international free software community[1] that develops Free and Open Source based software. Well-known products include the Plasma Desktop, KDE Frameworks and a range of cross-platform applications designed to run on Unix-like desktops, Microsoft Windows and Android. It further provides tools and documentation for developers that enables them to write software. This supporting role makes KDE a central development hub and home for many popular applications and projects like Calligra Suite, Krita or digiKam.
Founded | October 14, 1996; 27 years ago (1996-10-14) |
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Founder | Matthias Ettrich |
Type | Community |
Focus | Free software |
Products | KDE Plasma, KDE Frameworks, KDE Applications, Calligra Suite, KDevelop, digiKam, Amarok, etc. |
Method | Artwork, development, documentation, promotion, and translation. |
Website | kde |
The Plasma Desktop, being one of the most recognized projects of KDE, is the default desktop environment on many Linux distributions, such as openSUSE, Mageia, Chakra, Kubuntu, and PCLinuxOS. It was also the default desktop environment on PC-BSD, but was later replaced with Lumina, a desktop environment which, like KDE, is written in C++ and Qt.[2]