KDE News

The news that Canonical has dropped Kubuntu as an official distribution hits the KDE desktop where it counts.

Linpus Technologies, Inc., a Linux software solutions provider based in Taipei, Taiwan, just announced that they have ported Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest edition of Android, to run on x86 tablet, netbook and notebook computers.

Sabayon follows a rolling release development model, which means that once you install a new system, you may never need to re-install - ever.

Ubuntu 12.04 is shaping up nicely. Last week Alpha 2 got released , which means you should be testing by now.

Jonathan Riddell, the lead developer of the Kubuntu project, announced today that his work on the KDE-based Ubuntu variant will no longer be funded by Canonical after the upcoming 12.04 release.

Given the influence Google has in ecommerce, shouldn't we be a bit careful on how they can also affect free and open source software? An effort to create a GPL-less replacement for the BusyBox embedded utility is the cause of heated discussions on GPL enforcement and how The Document Foundation has announced the near-completion of the legal work ... (more)

More details are coming about Spark, the free-software Linux tablet, but enthusiasts will have to wait until May before they can get their hands on one.

Here are five of the best multimedia programs for Linux users. All of these programs are usually available in your Linux distribution's software management tool.

As we all know, the Kindle Fire's hot , Apple's selling bushels of iPads , and there's plenty of Honeycomb slates out there for you to choose from, but what if you want a tablet free from corporate influence? Enter Spark, a seven-inch slate that comes running the Plasma Active UX, an open-source OS based on Linux kernel, KDE's multi-platform Plasma ... (more)

Members of the KDE Plasma Active community announced an open source tablet platform that runs the mobile-oriented version of KDE's Plasma UI layer on a MeeGo Linux-based "Mer" operating system.

"beets is a cross-platform command line music tagger and organizer which you can use to 'get your music collection right once and for all'. "It can improve your music collection metadata by using MusicBrainz, download cover art for all your albums, reorganize your music files, fix filenames and more.

According to Aaron J. Seigo, 'It's the first tablet computer that comes with Plasma Active pre-installed.' The Spark, with its 7" screen, is built around a Cortex A9 with a Mali-400-gpu, 512MB RAM and an SD-card slot.

The KDE community announced version 4.8 of its desktop environment and software bundle for Linux, featuring improved, adaptive power management and new windowing functions.

For users on Linux and Unix, KDE offers a full suite of user workspace applications which allow interaction with these operating systems in a modern, graphical user interface.

The new version provides many new features, improved stability, and increased performance.

KDE applications released today include Dolphin with its new display engine and semantic goodies, new Kate features and improvements, and Gwenview enhancements.

There are job offers floating sporadically on planetkde so I guess this one would fit too especially that there are many related technologies involved.

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Ubuntu 11.10 server.

KchmViewer is a simple CHM files viewer written on Qt / KDE. It can be build as a standalone Qt-based application, or a KDE application.

A default installation of a distribution using GNOME 3 can be a pain to use, but thanks to available extensions, you can make your GNOME 3 installation a little bit more fun to use, or at least closer to the type of desktop environment you are used to.