The KDE 4.0, the latest version of KDE desktop environment, was released recently. On this occasion, we reached out to the founder of KDE project, Matthias Ettrich who started the KDE project back in 1996. Almost 12 years down the line, he’s now working at Trolltech, hacking Qt. Here is what the KDE-Man had to say…[The interview was conducted in 2008. KDE is gaining popularity so we wanted to refresh the memories.] Swapnil: How did KDE begin? Matthias: KDE’s history started with a posting of mine in various Linux and X11-related newsgroups almost 12 years ago in October 1996. We … Continue reading Matthias Ettrich: Creator Of KDE