7th year of the Krusade

dirk · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:06 am Post subject: 7th year of the Krusade

Seven years ago Shie and Rafi started to create Krusader. 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. 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, thanks to Frank's information gathering efforts.

About three years after the project started more people joined the project, 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 can give you some idea of the people involved.

Frank · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject:

Let's go for the next 7 years

Thanks everyone!

Senf · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject:

And what will be the features that K! will be known by in 2014? I'm betting on:

- using mindreading module for motionless communication with the files
- using internal encrypt/compress utility that will use 32768 bit encryption and compressing 10MB file to 8kb (on low compression rate)
- using keyboard only for historical reasons and for self programming module to which user will connect to using Shift+thought
- running on every OS natively (due to self programming module)
- automatically detecting coffee in the ECD (future CD) tray and not spilling it.
- auto detecting K! developers and greeting them as "U utterly owned me, lordship"
- auto learning some new slang of l33t
- auto organising the meeting of all devels and contributors for it's 15th birthday

oh and

- nagging why it does not remember the Y2k hoax

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dirk · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:47 pm Post subject: