IDG Contributor Network: KDE celebrates 20th birthday and goes LTS

The story of KDE started in October 1996 when Matthias Ettrich started a post in various Linux and X11-related newsgroups. “We quickly assembled 40 or so developers and started hacking together. Since then, the project has grown a lot, both in terms of contributors and in terms of users. And most certainly in terms of the number of applications and lines of source code,” Ettrich once told me.
Ettrich further added that, “The time was just right in 1996. Linux was popular enough