20 Years of KDE Contributions
On this day twenty years ago I wrote and submitted by very first patch to a Free Software project, KDE. What basically started with changing a single number got slightly out of control and had consequences my younger self wasn’t even remotely able to imagine.
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But in 2000 and 2001 when KDE 2 came out I was doing my mandatory civil service which gave me access to “infinite” Internet (10Mbit/s). So I could download all the updates and carry them home on floppy disks and CD-RWs. The step from KDE 1 to 2 was huge, I wanted more of that.