S.u.S.E Announces Support of KDE 1.0

OAKLAND, CALIF & FUERTH, GERMANY (July 29, 1998) - S.u.S.E., Inc., in conjunction with S.u.S.E., GMBH, announced the inclusion of the KDE desktop environment in S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3, scheduled for release in Germany on August 3. The international releases of the German and English versions are scheduled for release on August 20, with Italian and French versions following in early September.

S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 is the first commercial Linux distribution to include the K Desktop Environment in its entirety. "KDE, operating from a shared commitment to provide the latest in precision-engineered Linux technology, allows users a remarkably stable, user-friendly, and customizable desktop environment," said Scott Winterton, Outreach Director for S.u.S.E., Inc.

The new and innovative KDE desktop provides a contemporary, network transparent desktop environment for the Unix platform. Among KDE's key strengths are its functionality, stability, as well as unprecedented ease of use. A rich set of KDE applications, exhibiting umatched interoperability, is supplied with the K destkop environment.

S.u.S.E., Inc. and S.u.S.E., GMBH develop and distribute the precision-engineered S.u.S.E. Linux Operating system, in addition to a variety of other commercial Linux applications.

Press Contact U.S. : Scott Winterton, (510) 835-7873; saw@suse.com.
Press Contact Europe: Christian Egle + 49 911 740 53 44; ce@suse.de

Find out more about S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 and other S.u.S.E. products by visiting their web site: http://www.suse.com/Product/lx53/ For more information on the K Desktop Environment, please visit their web site at http://www.kde.org/, or contact press@kde.org.