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KDE Wayland Live Linux Testing OS Updated

Jonathan Riddell has updated his spin of (K)Ubuntu that comes with the latest Git code of KDE's KWin and other packages via the new KDE Neon initiative for making it easy to try out KDE Plasma on Wayland.

1 March 2016 - KDE Wayland OS - 1 Comment
You Can Now Try KDE Wayland Git On OpenSUSE

Last week was the news about openSUSE making it easier to try out the very latest KDE packages. They've now upped that up a notch by making it easier to try out the KDE on Wayland experience using their Linux distribution.

27 February 2016 - KDE Wayland Experience - 1 Comment
The Krita Team Releases Another Animation Beta

Since last month Krita 2.9 Animation Edition has been in beta as the version of this KDE drawing program that supports animations and uses OpenGL 3 on the GPU for rendering. The second beta of it is now available.

12 December 2015 - Krita Animation - 2 Comments
New KDE HIG Mobile Mockups
New KDE HIG Mobile Mockups

New mock-ups of the KDE Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for mobile devices are now available.

3 December 2015 - KDE Human Interface Guidelines - 1 Comment
KTorrent Ported To KDE Frameworks 5

It's been a year and a half since the original KDE Frameworks 5 release and more KDE applications continue to be ported over to this modern framework alongside Qt5. The latest to be ported over is KTorrent.

28 November 2015 - KTorrent KF5 - 16 Comments
Kubuntu Developers Planning Improvements For 16.04 Xenial

While Jonathan Riddell stepped down as the Kubuntu release manager immediately following the Kubuntu 15.10 release and Kubuntu's post-15.10 future was portrayed as uncertain, the developers still with the project are focusing on making a great 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" release.

4 November 2015 - Kubuntu 16.04 LTS - Add A Comment
KDE Pulled In Around $162k USD Last Year
KDE Pulled In Around $162k USD Last Year

KDE e.V. yesterday released their last quarterly report to end out 2014, which offer a look at their finances for the past year. I've also taken the liberty to do a cursory comparison against the GNOME Foundation's finances for 2014.

27 October 2015 - KDE Report - 16 Comments
KDevelop 5.0 Enters Beta With Qt5/KF5 Port

The first beta of KDevelop 5.0 is now available. This huge update comes after more than a year of hard work and its code-base has been ported over to using Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.

27 October 2015 - KDevelop 5.0 - 4 Comments
Kubuntu's Release Manager Calls It Quits
Kubuntu's Release Manager Calls It Quits

After Jonathan Riddell lost his leadership roles relating to Ubuntu, the future of Kubuntu became quite vague for after Kubuntu 15.10. Riddell has announced now that he's leaving Kubuntu.

23 October 2015 - Jonathan Riddell - 44 Comments
Is KDE 5 Stable? It's Complex

Last week was the much-viewed blog post asking whether KDE 5 is stable enough for normal users. There were lots of responses in our forums and elsewhere. Now, KWin developer Martin Gräßlin has come out with a blog post with a rebuttal to some of the complaints regarding KDE 5.

19 October 2015 - KDE 5 Stability - 64 Comments

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