Download KDE 3.5.3

The developers behind the K Desktop Environment yesterday released version 3.5.3 of the popular desktop environment for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris, among others. KDE ships with a standard desktop including fifteen applications such as a Personal Information Manager, multimedia, administration and network management programs, games, and so on. In this release, some improvements have been made to the boot time and with the help of the company Coverity, about 800 deficiencies have been fixed. The main changes are summarized as follows:

Significant enhancements include:

• KDE startup sequence reordered to improve startup time.
• Over 800 minor issues fixed thanks to Coverity, as part of a project initiated with funding from the United States Government.
• Small new features were implemented in Akregator, KMail and KAlarm. This release alters the tradition of limiting “maintenance releases” to bug fixes. “Feature freeze” was relaxed somewhat to accommodate qualitative improvements held back by the long release cycle of stable 3.5.x series.

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