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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 mature version that combines libraries and the desktop environment
  into one set of packages and has numerous appplications that can be
  built on that base.  For KDE5, the libraries, now called KDE Frameworks
  5 or KF5, are separate from the desktop environment called KDE Plasma 5.
  Both envionments can be installed, but Plasma is not yet considered 
  stable.</para>

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

  <sect2><title>Common Packages</title>

  <para>There are several packages that are common to both versions of KDE.
  These packages are presented in the following sections of this chapter.</para>

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