Tag Archive for 'desktop'

KDE SC 4.4 is here

Published on 10 February, 2010 in FOSS. 13 Comments Tags: , , , .

The KDE SC team has finally announced the much awaited 4.4 release, dubbed “Caikaku.”

KDE SC 4.4 Desktop

The sleek modern desktop environment from KDE SC has finally arrived. I’ve been waiting a long time for a solid, complete version and now I can finally delve right in and see all the goodies that KDE has to offer (although 4.3.5 was also very good, in my mind 4.4 is “it” and marks a most important turning point in the desktop).

Update: Renamed the title of the post so as to not appear to be dissing GNOME (which is also a brilliant desktop).

Munich adopts Open Document Format

Published on 22 January, 2010 in FOSS. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

I missed this previously, but Munich has finally switched over to exclusive use of ODF for documents, and PDF for non-editable documents.

The city administration’s standard desktops now consist of the free OpenOffice.org office suite, Mozilla’s Firefox browser, the Thunderbird email client and several other open source applications, such as the GIMP image editor.

10% global desktop market share for GNOME this year?

Published on 5 January, 2010 in Tech. 3 Comments Tags: , , .

Will we see Jeff’s dream of a 10% desktop market share for GNOME this year?

KDE Semantic Desktop Technology with Nepomuk

Published on 14 December, 2009 in FOSS. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

KDE News provides a first look at Mandriva’s integration of Nepomuk with KDE 4.3 in their recent release.

Nepomuk is a whole new approach to managing information intelligently and the transformation of pure research into useful and robust tools obviously takes time. However, Nepomuk is already working behind the scenes in KDE software in ways you may have used without noticing and some advanced searching features are already available if you know how to use them…

A friendly Nepomuk based search interface is expected to debut with Dolphin in release 4.4 of the KDE Software Compilation and full browsing capabilities based on Nepomuk are aimed for inclusion in 4.5 in the form of faceted browsing.

World’s smallest desktop PC comes with Linux

Published on 30 July, 2009 in FOSS and Tech. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Ohhh.. this would make a sweet Myth-TV front end, I reckon. Well, it’s make a sweet lots of things. Thoughts?

-c

KDE 4: The Komplete Desktop?

Published on 4 June, 2009 in FOSS. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

I’ve just finished my second article for Linux Magazine, on whether KDE 4 is complete enough or not. Feed back welcome.

-c