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Trolltech and KDE Cooperate on Cross-Platform Multimedia Programming Framework

Submitted by Ty on December 14, 2007 - 2:00pm.

Trolltech announced a technical collaboration on the development of Phonon, a cross-platform multimedia framework that makes it simple for programmers of all experience levels to incorporate multimedia functionality into their applications.

KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 2 Out

Submitted by Ty on December 12, 2007 - 2:00pm.

The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the second release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks the last mile on the road to KDE 4.0. This release sees increasing participation from distributions, you can download packages for Debian, Kubuntu, Mandriva, openSUSE & Fedora or grab the live CDs from Kubuntu & openSUSE.

KDE 4 with less memory consumption

Submitted by Ty on December 12, 2007 - 9:00am.

Tests of the latest KDE-4-Desktop showed that KDE 4 in direct comparison to KDE 3.5 almost 40 percent less memory consumption.

KDE 4 works well with 256 MiB of memory and 1 GHz CPU

Submitted by Ty on December 11, 2007 - 10:00am.

"I decided to boot my Thinkpad X60 with "mem=256M maxcpus=1", logged into KDE 4 and set the power saving policy to "Powersave", which throttles the CPU to 1Ghz and locks it there. And then I used KDE 4 some, started Konqueror, browsed about a bit, configured a few things with System Settings, started Kopete and chatted a little."

KDE 4.0 to be Released in January

Submitted by Ty on December 3, 2007 - 12:00pm.

The KDE Release Team has decided to release KDE 4.0 this coming January. The release was originally planned for mid-December. The KDE developers want to solve a couple of essential issues before releasing. Having solved some of those issues, among which were glitches in the visual appearance, and in Konqueror, the KDE community hopes to have a KDE 4.0 that will live up to the high expectations for it. Read on for more details.

Akademy-es 2007 in Zaragoza Spain

Submitted by Ty on November 23, 2007 - 9:00am.

This past weekend, November 16th through the 18th, Zaragoza Spain was the home of Akademy-es 2007. The conference began early Saturday morning and finished Monday with a Hackathon. Akademy-es 2007, hosted by Hispalinux, Wireless Zaragoza, and the Zaragoza council, was a conference specifically for KDE developers and users from around Spain.

KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1

Submitted by Ty on November 21, 2007 - 10:00am.

The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now approaching release quality.

KDE 4.0 Release Event Contest Winners Announced

Submitted by Ty on November 14, 2007 - 11:00am.

"On October 4, 2007 we announced a contest regarding the KDE 4.0 Release Event at Mountain View, California on January 17-19, 2008. Participants were asked to answer the question: "Why should you be at the KDE 4.0 Release Event?" with the winner being flown out to the Release Event itself."

KDE 4.0 Beta 4 and Development Plaform RC Released

Submitted by Ty on October 31, 2007 - 9:00am.

The KDE Community is happy to release the fourth Beta for KDE 4.0. This Beta aimed at further polishing of the KDE codebase and we would love to start receiving feedback from testers. At the same time, a Release Candidate for the KDE 4.0 Development Platform is released.

Second KOffice Sprint in Berlin Focuses on Release

Submitted by Ty on October 30, 2007 - 10:00am.

This weekend, ten KOffice hackers congregated once again in the hospitable Berlin KDAB headquarters. KOffice has come a long way in six months: all the groundwork has been laid for the new version, KOffice 2.0.

KDE 4.0 Beta 3 Released

Submitted by Ty on October 18, 2007 - 10:00am.

The third beta of KDE 4.0 is aimed at further polishing of the KDE codebase and also marks the freeze of the KDE Development Platform. Since the last Beta, most of KDE has been frozen for new features, instead receiving the necessary polish and bugfixing. The components which were exempt from this freeze, like Plasma, saw significant improvements.

KDE 3.5.8 Released

Submitted by Ty on October 16, 2007 - 10:00am.

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.8, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE now supports 65 languages, making it available to more people than most non-free software and can be easily extended to support others by communities who wish to contribute to the open source project.

KDE 4.0 Release Event at the Google headquarters

Submitted by Ty on October 4, 2007 - 12:00pm.

On January 17-19, the KDE community will present KDE 4.0 with a Release Event at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. The purpose is to celebrate the anticipated release of KDE's new desktop environment and development platform. In addition, representatives from businesses, press and other Free Software groups will attend.

KDE Invasion in the Canary Islands

Submitted by Ty on October 2, 2007 - 9:00am.

Ubuntu's Fridge is reporting that Kubuntu is taking the Canary Islands. KDE is being installed on all of the school computers in the Canary Islands by the way of mEDUXa and in their universities with Bardinux, both derivatives of the Kubuntu GNU/Linux operating system. KDE's Aaron Seigo and Jonathan Riddell toured the schools in which mEDUXa is in use and spoke with the developers during the Jornadas de Software Libre conference. During that conference, Aaron Seigo presented KDE 4 and its exciting capabilities as well as an introduction to KDE and Qt programming.

Playing with the Playlist - Amarok's new playlist in progress

Submitted by Ty on September 28, 2007 - 11:00am.

"Since the new playlist for Amarok 2 is basically built using a QGraphicsView, we can do some really interesting stuff with it. So after playing with this for a while, and completely discarding the fist prototype I did (as the other devs managed to convince me of the error of my ways), this is what I've come up with."

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