With the push towards Wayland and other various advancements being desired out of KDE's compositing window manager, Martin Gräßlin is joining Blue Systems to further work on KWin. Beginning a new blog post by Martin, ...
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I have been disappointed before by this project, but I can still be hopeful.
"There hasn't been any exciting Vivaldi news in some time, but now Aaron Seigo has a new blog post with details." Delete the scoop?
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The openSUSE Conference – Greece! The moment is drawing close for you to attend the openSUSE Conference 2013. This time we will meet at the fantastic city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Our Greek ambassadors have worked ... Delete the scoop?
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Someday I will go to Akademy, where the KDE junkies gather to plan, code and learn. I'm told there's beer there too. In the meantime, I can dream about this schedule. Delete the scoop?
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Among the goals for the new 'KLyDE' desktop are a minimal footprint, simplified configuration, and a fast startup.
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More information on KLyDE, and a link to the Trello project page. Delete the scoop?
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GNOME 3 and Unity Alternatives: Cinnamon vs. Mate
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I have admired the fans of GNOME 2 for trying to keep their favored desktop going. Here's Bruce Byfield's take on how the work is going. Delete the scoop?
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After a year of development, I am happy to announce GNOME Photos 3.8.0. This completes the last unfinished GNOME 3.8 feature – Photos is now the latest in the set of Finding & Reminding applications for GNOME 3. Delete the scoop?
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This article is a bit more technical than I usually post here, but it's always nice to see what's happening under the hood at KDE. Perhaps I'll try to explain it on a more human level at Notes from the Metaverse soon. Delete the scoop?
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Bugfixes for Krita and other pieces of the KDE office suite.
Calligra 2.6 did not make it into openSUSE 12.3 by default, but is in the KDE 4.10 repository. I am still trying to find time to play with Calligra Author, the new word processor designed to publish e-pub books. Delete the scoop?
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KDE Homepage, KDE.org
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More than 100 bug fixes in this first of a planned monthly update schedule for KDE 4.10 Delete the scoop?
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Five new features coming in openSUSE Linux 12.3
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Another 12.3 preview from PCWorld.
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openSUSE 12.3 coming very soon. Here's a pretty exhaustive list of what's coming. Delete the scoop?
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Group Photo Today the openSUSE board invites you to submit your proposal for locations of the openSUSE Conference in 2014. Please send proposals to the openSUSE project mailing list with the subject “oSC14 location ...
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Want to host the openSUSE (technical) conference next year? Now's the time to say so! Delete the scoop?
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Katherine Noyes presents the State of the Free and Open Source Office Software address for enterprise users.
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With the new LibreOffice 4.0 and Calligra 2.6, why would anyone need Microsoft Office 2013/365? Delete the scoop?
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In the first article in this series I pointed out some problems I and other LibreOffice users have with the standard LibreOffice color palette, and
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A second article on colors in LibreOffice. Conclusion: "Open standards mean that you'll rarely be stuck with a problem if you are willing to do some work. In this instance, we were able to extend LibreOffice with a full color library, to allow us to work with presentations, spreadsheets, and other documents using a more attractive palette." Delete the scoop?
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Recently, I was working on an Impress presentation, and I needed more colors than LibreOffice provides with its standard color picker. Specifically,
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For those whose color preferences are more specific than most, Federico Kereki offers a way to define a "set of colors" in LibreOffice (also works in OpenOffice). Particularly good for corporate users who have trademarked color shades. Delete the scoop?
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The road to Plasma Workspaces 2 has been laid out as the Plasma developers recently met in Nuremberg, Germany, to discuss their open issues around future developments - it will be based on version 5 of the KDE platform and Qt...
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Key points I take away from this: KDE 5 Plasma Workspaces will be designed to function exactly as the current KDE 4 does.
To do that, it will take at least a year of development. Thus we should see a production-worthy release in late 2014. Delete the scoop?
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Developers from the GNOME, KDE, Unity and Razor-qt projects have met for the first freedesktop Summit to discuss improvements in D-Bus and develop new specifications for their open source desktop environments...
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This story is a little bit too technical for most, but it's always good to hear that the desktop developers are talking with each other. Users usually benefit. Delete the scoop?
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KlyDE: A Lightweight KDE Desktop
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Will Stephenson: "Surely some mistake, you say? KDE and lightweight kan't fit in the same sentence. I think they can." Delete the scoop?
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A look at the latest release of openSuSE, which is so good I have installed it as the default boot on all of my computers.
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Good basic review of openSUSE 12.3 (even if he gets the capitalization wrong). Review is even more useful if you're into graphics. You can probably ignore the comment stream, which is mostly influenced by the pro-Windows guy who starts the thing off. Delete the scoop?
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Dear contributors, friends and fans: The latest release of the openSUSE distribution, version 12.3, is ready for you!
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I've been playing with RC2, and this is an excellent release! Now available for download. Delete the scoop?
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Engineers from B1 Systems and SUSE have now joined forces to package OpenStack in the Open Build Service for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise. The B1 Systems engineers bring in their OpenStack consulting and ...
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Cloud computing straight from your openSUSE desktop.
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E17 desktop Makes Its openSUSE Debut
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A nice review of openSUSE 12.3. I'm pretty sure E17 (formerly known as Enlightenment) has been in the distro before, but it's been awhile since I've played with it. openSUSE has always been about variety in packages.
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"Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE head cheerleader, announced the second release candidate for openSUSE 12.3. He said, "A large number of bugs has been fixed and a number of packages has been updated. Major changes include PulseAudio, the kernel and Firefox."
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It's coming soon...and it runs on my laptop in a VirtualBox! Delete the scoop?
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KDE 4.10 was recently released with all kinds of improvements and new goodies. KDE doesn't generate a lot of noise-- so how is the most advanced Linux desktop faring these days?
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Read this for no other reason than to learn that Nepomuk is an acronym! More good stuff in this piece too. Thanks to Carla Schroder! Delete the scoop?
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