Download KDE 3.0 Beta 1

[ti] announced that on the site of KDE.org a release of KDE 3.0 Beta 1. This version of the KDE desktop came with a large wall of text that you here can read in full. A little piece:

December 19, 2001 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate release of KDE 3.0beta1, the third generation of KDE’s free, powerful, easy-to-use, Internet-enabled desktop for Linux and other UNIXes. This second pre-release of KDE 3.0, which follows two months after the release of KDE 3.0alpha, ships with the core KDE libraries, the core desktop environment, and over 100 applications from the other base KDE packages (administration, multimedia, network, PIM, utilities, development, etc.). KDE 3.0 is scheduled for final release in the first half of 2002, with one or more intervening “RC” releases preceding the final release. The KDE Project will demonstrate the latest pre-release of KDE 3 at the LinuxWorld Expo in New York (Jan. 29 – Feb. 1, 2002).