An Introduction to KDE4

KDE 4.3 was released in August, 2009, the most recent update to the KDE 4 series. It is a community effort geared towards daily computer users and developers and comes complete with a set of software packages including those for graphics, multimedia, programming, networking, education and gaming. KDE 4 and a wide variety of additional applications are available for Linux, Unix, MacOS X, and Windows under Free Software licenses. KDE 4 will be introduced with a live demonstration of many of the features of KDE on Linux, starting at the basic elements of the KDE Plasma desktop and using KDE to do file management and web surfing. This is followed by a whirlwind tour of many of the applications that are unique to KDE. Emphasis will be placed on introducing the concepts and features of KDE that will be foreign to users coming from other operating systems, and demonstrating the wide ecosystem of available KDE software.