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PackageKit was created by Richard Hughes in 2007, [2] [3] and first introduced into an operating system as a default application in May 2008 with the release of Fedora 9. [4] The suite is cross-platform, though it is primarily targeted at Linux distributions which follow the interoperability standards set out by the freedesktop.org group.
In 2013, Fedora KDE members decided to default to SDDM in Fedora 21. [7] KDE chose SDDM to be the successor of the KDE Display Manager for KDE Plasma 5. [8] [9] The LXQt developers recommend SDDM as a display manager. [10]
The first release as KDE Frameworks was with version 5, to account for the fact that the code base was that of KDE Platform version 4 (the only major version of KDE Platform). The transition from KDE Platform to KDE Frameworks began in August 2013, guided by top KDE technical contributors. [8]
Kross is a scripting framework for KDE Frameworks. Kross was originally designed for use in KOffice but eventually became the official scripting framework in KDE Software Compilation 4 before being dropped in Frameworks 6. [2]
KDevelop 5 has parser backends for C, C++, Objective-C, OpenCL and JavaScript/QML, with plugins supporting PHP, Python 3 and Ruby. [6] Basic syntax highlighting and code folding are available for dozens of other source-code and markup formats, but without semantic analysis. KDevelop is part of the KDE project, and is based on KDE Frameworks and Qt.
A KDE Patron is an individual or organization supporting the KDE community by donating at least 5000 Euro (depending on the company's size) to the KDE e.V. [29] As of February 2024, there are nine such patrons: Blue Systems, Canonical Ltd., Google, GnuPG, Kubuntu Focus, Slimbook, SUSE, The Qt Company, and TUXEDO Computers.
GUI-based wrappers such as YUM Extender (yumex) also exist, [8] and has been adopted for Fedora Linux until version 22. [9] A rewrite of YUM named DNF replaced YUM as the default package manager in Fedora 22 [9] (in 2015). This was required due to Fedora's transition from Python 2 to Python 3, which is not supported by YUM. [10]
Fedora Linux [7] is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project.It was originally developed in 2003 as a continuation of the Red Hat Linux project. It contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of open-source technologies.