KDE

== As an community ==
KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source Linux software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that allow collaborative work on this kind of software. Well-known products include the Plasma Desktop, Frameworks and a range of cross-platform applications like Krita or digiKam designed to run on Unix and Unix-like desktops, Microsoft Windows and Android.
== As an desktop environment ==
KDE Plasma is an Desktop Environment created by group of developers. Plasma itself originated from K Desktop Environment. KDE was under development in 1996, and released in 1998. It was criticized for the use of Qt software framework. KDE was revolutionary for Linux desktop. It had major update on 2000 (2.0), 2002 (3.0), 2004 (3.3) and 2005 (3.5).
KDE Community releases KDE Software Compilation 4 on 2008. While it is an big update, lately, it is divided to KDE Plasma, KDE Platform and KDE Applications.
Plasma serves as the desktop environment since then, and it's an primary successor of KDE 3.
Plasma 5 released in 2014, but isn't widely adopted until 2015 with Fedora 22, Kubuntu 15.04 and openSUSE Leap 42.1.
K Desktop Environment and KDE Plasma is not that popular for OS Mockup Community.
==Table of versions==
Version 	Release date
KDE 1 	July 12, 1998
KDE 2 	October 23, 2000
KDE 3 	April 3, 2002
KDE Plasma 4	January 11, 2008
KDE Plasma 5	July 15, 2014
== Trivia ==
* Kubuntu is based on Ubuntu using KDE Plasma and the earliest known derivative of Ubuntu.
* Minderians uses KDE 3.5 sounds of Windows 4000 (32015) and KDE Plasma sounds of Windows 5000 (39047). (see in List of flaws on MinderiaYouTuber's WHWNRV Update 5. Future Part)
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