If you stick around this high tech business long enough, you'll hear the hype repeat itself. When I first visited this program in the summer of 1999, my primary attraction to the KDE interface was that it was remarkably similar in many ways to the one offered by Windows. I've since learned to appreciate KDE for the independent Open Source GUI that it is. While that same great comfortable graphical look is there to give new users the comfort they need during an uncertain transition period, the features under the hood have improved considerably. Additionally, you'll find a new multimedia architecture based on aRts, the Analog Real Time Synthesizer.
Developers can create additional filters and plug-ins to extend aRts.
Okay, that was four words.