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. Some of these applications are developed by people closely entrenched in [...]

KDE OBS Generator Builds KDE Packages for Various Distros

Building distro-specific packages is not one of the strengths of most developers. The KDE OBS Generator should solve this problem with the help of openSUSE Build Services.
The idea for kde-obs-generator emerged from CampKDE and FOSDEM. Since then, Novell employee Lubo Lunák has uploaded its first developer version on kde-apps.org. The program creates RPM and Debian [...]

Akademy-es 2010

The KDE España association is organizing Akademy-es 2010 in collaboration with Itsas (the Free Software group of the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU) and the Department of Culture of the Basque Goverment. This event gathers contributors to and users of KDE software and will be held in the Engineering Technical School of Bilbao from [...]

Kate, KDevelop and Okteta Developers Meet in Berlin

Berlin, probably one of the most frequented KDE hacking locations in the world, saw another hack sprint from 13th to 21st of February. This time four of the KDevelop and five of the Kate developers shared a week of very productive programming. Additionally team members from Okteta and KDE on Windows joined the meeting.
Read more [...]

KDE SC 4.4.1 Out Now

KDE Software Compilation 4.4.1 Out Now: Codename “Clara”
KDE Community Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 4.4 Free Desktop,
Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates
March 2nd, 2010. Today, KDE has released a new version of the KDE Software
Compilation (KDE SC). This month’s edition of KDE SC is a bugfix and [...]

Kolab Systems Aims to Bring Kolab Groupware to New Level

Today a new Free Software business was launched with the goal of strengthening the Kolab groupware solution ecosystem. The former Kolab Konsortium now has a new charter and thus a new name: Kolab Systems AG. Offering services, packaging and quality assurance based on a partnership model, Kolab Systems builds its business on the proven Kolab [...]

Amarok 2.3 Beta 1 released

The Amarok Project developers have released the first beta for what will become version 2.3 of their popular open source music player for the KDE desktop, code named “Altered State”. According to the developers, they decided to release the next version of Amarok as version 2.3 instead of 2.2.3 because of the “considerable visual changes [...]

Important Change to KDE’s Security Policy

KDE’s Security Policy has had a small update. The change is as follows:

Information about security vulnerabilities will no longer be published via the Dot at http://dot.kde.org.

This change was made to reflect actual practices. Although the security policy has stated that security information would be published via the Dot, a review has shown that this has [...]

Akademy 2010 Call for Sponsorship

The organizing team of Akademy 2010 is looking for sponsors to help make the annual world summit of the KDE community a success. Akademy 2010 will take place in Tampere, Finland from July 3rd to July 10th and is organized by KDE e.V. and COSS, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions.
By joining the lineup [...]

How to install KDE Software Compilation 4.4 from PPA in ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
How to install KDE Software Compilation 4.4 from PPA in ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
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 [...]

KDE 4.4.0 Released

KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0 Introduces Netbook Interface,
Window Tabbing and Authentication Framework
KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0 (Codename: “Caikaku”) Released
9th February, 2010. Today KDE announces the immediate availability of the KDE
Software Compilation 4.4, “Caikaku”, bringing an innovative collection of
applications to Free Software users. Major new technologies have been introduced,
including social networking [...]

How To Install Fedora 12 KDE

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
How To Install Fedora 12 KDE
This is a very brief howto on installing Fedora 12 KDE on 64 bit
machines. I installed it on my laptop, tweaked it and still tweaking.
So here goes…..
Link to the original site

Akademy 2010: “Our World, Clearly” – Call for Papers

Akademy is the annual conference of the KDE community and open to all who share an interest in the KDE community and its goals. This conference brings together artists, designers, programmers, translators, users, writers and other contributors to celebrate the achievements of the past year and helps define the vision for the next year. In [...]

KDE SC 4.4 RC3 Released

With the number of fixes still going into the 4.4 branch after RC2 last week, the release managers have decided to pop another release candidate in between. Last night, Dirk tagged KDE Software Compilation 4.4 RC3, and we’re releasing it today already. Overall the release is shaping up nicely, with many bugs still being squashed [...]

KDE Software Compilation 4.3.5 Out Now: Codename “Clue”

KDE Software Compilation 4.3.5 Out Now: Codename “Clue”
KDE Community Ships Fifth Translation and Service Release of the 4.3 Free Desktop,
Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates
January 26th, 2010. Today, KDE has released a new version of the KDE Software
Compilation (KDE SC). This month’s edition of KDE SC is a bugfix [...]

KOffice Based Office Viewer Launched for Nokia N900

An alpha version of Office Viewer has been uploaded to the repositories for the N900. Users of Nokia’s smart phone can install the KOffice based app to view word processing documents, spreadsheets and presentation. The application can also be used to give presentations. “This shows both how portable and lean on resources KOffice is” says [...]

KDE team removes support for underscore, starts enforcing STD3 from RFC1122

Interestingly, the latest build of KDE 4 (4.3.90 aka 4.4 RC1) no longer supports the underscore character in host names.
While this was allowed in previous KDE4 versions, the KDE team have removed support for the underscore as “STD3 requires all DNS domain names to be limited to Letters, Digits and Hyphen.”
Read more at two or [...]

Amarok 2.2.2 “Maya Gold” Released

The Amarok team is proud to announce that Amarok 2.2.2 has been released. After 8 weeks of development and a beta release in mid-December, the source code and packages for some distributions are now available on the download page.
The main focus of the developers for this release, besides new features, was to improve the UI [...]

KDE Software Compilation 4.4 Release Candidate 1 Available

KDE Software Compilation 4.4 RC1 Out Now: Codename “Cornelius”
KDE Ships First Release Candidate of New 4.4 Desktop, Applications
and Development Platform
January 8th, 2010. Today, KDE has released the first release candidate of the next
version of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC). KDE SC 4.4 Release Candidate 1
provides a testing base for [...]

What’s new in KDE SC 4.4 with Videos !

n this post, I will try to collect all the videos which talk about next KDE SC version. KDE SC 4.4 will be released on February 9th, 2010.
Window Tabbing
Look the videos at LinuxCrunch