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KDE Project Ships First Beta Release for Leading Free Software Desktop, Codename "Cnuth"

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 marks the stabilizing of foundations for the new major release of KDE.

August 2, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications.
KWord, a KOffice application using Flakes of various types

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