Krusader Newsletter: - Volume 3, Number 4, 17 may 2007
Frank Schoolmeesters
Krusader Newsletter, 17 May 2007
(c) 2005-2007 by The Krusader Krew, All Rights Reserved
30th April 2000 -> 30th April 2007 : The Krusader project is seven
years old! :-)
http://krusader.sourceforge.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1951
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Welcome to the fourth Krusader Newsletter of 2007 with news, views and
information about recent developments and ongoing issues in the
Krusader project. Our aim is to inform of recent developments, give a
preview of upcoming features and to let our loyal users have a direct
line to the Krusader Krew.
7th year of the Krusader
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Seven years ago Shie and Rafi started to create Krusader [1]. One
afternoon they went to Rafi's place after they ate falafel, and
instead of tending to their academic duties they started Krusader.
Krusader was created because there was no good Total Commander
(formerly Windows Commander) replacement for Linux. Shie and Rafi
chose KDE/Qt because it offered the right tools for software
development, as well as a rich and dependable framework.
Probably, that famous meeting took place on 30th April 2000. On the
1st of May 2000, the project started officially. The first working
version was called M1 (Milestone 1) for KDE 2 (Kleopatra 1.91). The
first release was M2 (Milestone2) on 11th July 2000 [2]. Version 1.0
was released on 1 January 2002, and now seven years after the project
was begun, Krusader 1.80.0-beta2 was released on 31 March 2007. The
1.80 release will be the last in the line for KDE3. The majority of
effort will now be directed towards Krusader2 for KDE4 which is
knocking on the door. For more release information, you can check the
release overview [3], thanks to Frank's information gathering efforts.
About three years after the project started more people joined the
project [4], and the Krusader Krew was born.
We'd like to thank everyone who has contributed to the project with
feedback, patches and ideas. Without it, Krusader would not have
become the proven application that it is today. It is impossible to
mention every contributor but the credits page [5] can give you some
idea of the people involved.
1. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1947
2. http://web.archive.org/web/20000822030717/krusader.sourceforge.net/news.htm
3. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/handbook/release_overview.html
4. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1057
5. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/handbook/credits.html
Krusader-1.80.0-beta2 MacOS-X Port
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Catalin Hritcu [6] has ported Krusader-1.80.0-beta2 [7] [8] to MacOS-X
with the fink project [9], Alexander K. Hansen Fink has improved the
port [10]. The needed krusader-1.80.0-beta2.info and krusader.patch
can be downloaded [11] [12]. Feedback about this port would be nice.
6. http://hritcu.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/krusader-on-intel-mac/
7. http://groups.google.com/group/krusader-users/t/14e3a69f72f41a5e
8. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/handbook/mac-port.html
9. http://finkproject.org/
10. http://groups.google.com/group/krusader-users/t/8010a89092ebdcb7
11. https://finch.finkdeveloper.net/svn/users/akh/experimental/3rdparty/finkinfo/kde/krusader-1.80.0-beta2.info
12. https://finch.finkdeveloper.net/svn/users/akh/experimental/3rdparty/finkinfo/kde/krusader.patch
Krusader-1.80.0-beta2 available on Debian Sid
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Krusader-1.80.0-beta2 has entered Debian Unstable/Sid thanks to Fathi
Boudra and Mark Purcell [13].
13. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/krusader
Krusader2.x , porting to KDE4 has started
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Shie Erlich has started to work on the port to KDE4! [14]
14. http://groups.google.com/group/krusader-devel/t/2be497e8728e7978
Help and feedback
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Here you get a chance to contribute to the Krusader project.
Somethings need to be done, but can't be done by us. Help, feedback,
and contributions are always welcome. If you feel you can help, please
follow this link [15].Thank you! If you have a topic for Krusader
news, please contact Frank. Your feedback on this newsletter and
future newsletters will be appreciated.
15. http://krusader.sourceforge.net/help.php
Thanks for reading. If you have any ideas to improve
Krusader, feel free to let us know. We do it all, for you....
Kind regards,
Krusader Krew