KDE PIM developers are working hard to get a personal information management stack based on KDE and Akonadi onto Maemo/MeeGo devices with the benefits and features that Kontact and the rest of KDE PIM brings desktop users today in stable versions of KDE PIM.
Read more »KDE PIM on Mobile – What’s going on?
NimbleX 2010 Beta Makes the Switch to KDE4
After a couple of years of silence, a new version of NimbleX, a light-weight, Slackware-based Linux distribution is now available.
Read more »Kobby: Collaborative Text Editor
Kobby is a tool that allows users to to collaborate on text files. The collaborative text editor is a really great tool for a lot of situations. Instead of passing documents (or emails) back and forth to get your work done, collaborate in real time.
Read more »Hello Kate, goodbye vi
In my last article I introduced you to Gedit (see “Gedit: No more text-based editor for you!“) and, as promised, this time around we will examine the KDE equivalent…Kate.
Read more »KDevelop 4.0 IDE Released with C++ and PHP Support
The KDevelop Hackers are proud and happy to announce that KDevelop 4.0 is finally available as a stable release. Released together is the first version of KDevelop PHP plugins, which make KDevelop a very interesting option for PHP developers. The major features for C++ support include code navigation, and semantic highlighting.
Read more »Finally! The first Gluon alpha released!
The Gluon project is an open framework for creating and distributing games - supporting the flow of the idea all the way from the author to the player of the finished game using 2D graphics. After long months of hard work, the team is now very proud to announce the release and availability of the Gluon software packages.
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KDE 4.5 Release Schedule
Last week we finished the KDE 4.5 release schedule. The good news is that you can start organising your release party now, the expected date for KDE 4.5.0 is August 4th 2010.
Read more »3 KDE Add-ons Worth Trying
Ever so often, I look around for rather random add-ons that make my desktop experience more pleasant or occasionally even serve a meaningful purpose. They range from full applications to very basic widgets.
Read more »Screenshots of Debian-based PureOS
Built with Linux-Live scripts 6.2.9, the Debian-based PureOS 2.0 Linux distro has been recently released. This distro and live CD feature the KDE 4.3.4 desktop environment, Linux kernel 2.6.33 w/ Squashfs 3.4 and LZMA. Popular applications you'll find on PureOS include FileZilla, GIMP, Iceweasel, K3B, Songbird, VLC, and much more. Check out the screenshots.
Read more »Five Improvements for KDE 4.5 (Part 2)
Welcome to part 2! Last time I talked about all the cool features I wished for in KDE that have already became reality. This time I’m going to detail the things I hope to see in future KDE releases.
Read more »Come Out as Part of KDE
Part of the repositioning of the KDE brands was choosing an appropriate "KDE Software Label" for developers working on applications outside the main KDE Software Compilation. Technology developed by KDE is used far and wide, as can be witnessed on kde-apps.org and other sites.
Read more »Epidemic 3.1 installation guide
Epidemic is a desktop-oriented, KDE, Debian-based (GNU/Linux) distribution developed in Brazil. This article provides a detailed, step by step guide on how to partition a disk and install Epidemic 3.1, the latest stable release.
Read more »Desktops and their performance
Phoronix has used its Test Suite to compare the memory and power consumption of different desktop environments. However, the results should be handled with care.
Read more »Mandriva - Catch a falling star
Mandriva began life in July 1998 as Linux Mandrake in France in Gael Duval's bedroom after he ported a KDE 1.0 desktop onto Red Hat Linux 5.1, uploaded the result onto two FTP servers, went away on holiday, and came back to find that he had a popular and successful Linux distribution on his hands.
Read more »GNOME and KDE: Seven Attractions in Each
Despite all the talk about the mythical Year of the Linux Desktop, somewhere in the last few years, free software passed a milestone without anyone noticing. At some point, after years of struggling to rival proprietary desktops, both GNOME and KDE have caught up in features and narrowed the gap in usability. We are now at a point where free software is often an innovator on the desktop.
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