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.
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GNOME and KDE: Seven Attractions in Each
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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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Five Improvements for KDE 4.5 (Part 1)
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The KDE 4 series has been a very good experience for me. Sure, I have complaints (who doesn’t) but for the most part, the latest generation of KDE contains quite possibly the best open source innovation I have ever seen.
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An Interview with KDEPIM Contributor Tobias König
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Welcome to another interview with a KDE contributor. This time we talked with Tobias König from KDEPIM about Akonadi and the TV series Lost.
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The 7 Irritations of GNOME and KDE
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Bruce Byfield is already grumpy from the Olympics invasion of his hometown, and now KDE and GNOME are causing vexation. They both have many wonderful abilities, but some things leave users scratching their heads and wondering "why."
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KDE and GNOME: Seven Irritations in Each
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Ordinarily, I'm a tolerably contented desktop user, spending about three-quarters of my time in KDE and the rest in GNOME, with occasional forays into other desktops. But in the last two weeks, I've been noticing irritations in every interface I've used.
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KDESC 4.3+: Video, Music, Image and Document Preview in Dolphin
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In most distributions that come with KDE Software Compilation 4.3 and above, opening Dolphin for browsing the filesystem will give you Preview Mode Button. We will expand on this option.
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PC-BSD 8.0 FINAL Released
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PC-BSD is a free, open-source operating system based on rock-solid FreeBSD and is designed for use on the desktop so it is easy to use. PC-BSD 8.0 (Hubble Edition) is running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE SC 4.3.5. It features brand new graphical installer and can run in Live mode directly from DVD.
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KDE Review: KDE 4.4 Comes in from the Cold
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Between radical changes and limited functionality, the KDE 4 series got off to a rough start. However, with each release, KDE 4 has improved steadily and silenced more critics. Now, with the 4.4 release, the series has reached first maturity.
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Hands-on: semantic desktop starts to show in KDE SC 4.4
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Last week, the KDE community officially released KDE Software Compilation 4.4, a significant update of the open source desktop environment and its associated application stack. The new version delivers some user interface improvements, enhanced usability, new features, additional software, and a number of important bug fixes.
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Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox and KDE64 Editions Out Now
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A few minutes ago, Clement Lefebvre and the hard working community behind the Linux Mint community announced the immediate availability of two new editions for the Helena release: Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox and Linux Mint 8 KDE64!
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The KDE 4.3 System Settings - Part 5 - System
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Welcome to part 5, the final article in our little series on the KDE 4.3 System Settings control panel. I first off want to thank the KDE devs for creating such a great desktop environment (DE) and for simplifying the control panel (now known as "System Settings"). The last time I had to do an article series like this, it took me 10 articles and nearly a month to pull it off.
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When KDE 4.4 was released a few days ago, I just had to try it out. Here is a brief outline of the installation og the unstable KDE 4.4 ebuilds and first day experience.
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How to install KDE Software Compilation 4.4 from PPA in ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
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KDE announces the immediate availability of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4 on 9th feb 2010, "Caikaku", bringing an innovative collection of applications to Free Software users. Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework.
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Screenshot Tour of KDE 4.4
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Earlier, the KDE team had announced the availability of version 4.4 of the popular desktop environment, KDE. I’d been running the RC2 version of KDE 4.4 since it was made available. And today I’ve upgraded to the release version. Here are some screenshots:
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