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  <title>KDE Preliminaries</title>

  <para><application>KDE</application> is a comprehensive desktop environment
  with a huge number of applications written for it and a huge amount of users.
  It is based on the <application>Qt</application> framework.</para>

  <para>There are two versions of <application>KDE</application>. KDE4 is a
  deprecated version that combines libraries and the desktop environment into
  one set of packages. It is no longer in BLFS.  For KDE5, the libraries, now
  called KDE Frameworks 5 or KF5, are separate from the desktop environment
  called KDE Plasma 5.  </para>

  <para>For more information visit the official KDE project site at
  <ulink url="http://www.kde.org/"/>.</para>
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