KDE Plasma 5.15.5 Released As The Last Bugfix Of The Series Before The Release Of 5.16

The KDE Community has released Plasma 5.15.5 with the latest round of bug fixes. This represents the last release of the 5.15 series. Plasma 5.16 will release in June, and will be when many new exciting features are brought forth, such as with Discover. Per the announcement: "This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes...

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Freespire Linux 4.8 Released With KDE Plasma 5 LTS, Some Unique Applications

Freespire, the free version of Linspire from PC / OpenSystems LLC, has a new release The team over at Linspire recently announced the immediate availability of Freespire, the free and community version of it's licensed commercial cousin. Once based on XFCE, Freespire is currently based on KDE Plasma 5 LTS. Per the announcement: "Today...

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New KDE Partition Manager 4.0 Released With New Features And Code Re-write

Lots of new features and some code re-base highlight KDE Partition Manager 4.0   After 1 and 1/2 years of work from the developers, KDE Partition Manager 4.0 has been made available to users. by far, the main aspect of this release is that the entire application, including the GUI, does not need to run as the root user. "The main...

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Elisa Music Player Sees More New Features And A Beta Release

KDE Music Player Elisa Issues Beta, Moving Towards 0.4 Release Well, what can I say? Another day, more news about KDE's Elisa Music Player. Pushing forward from the previous announcements regarding this up-and-coming music application, the lead developer has again posted news about more new features in a move towards an official release. Elisa...

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KDE Plasma's Discover Software Store Sill Improving, Gaining New Features For Plasma 5.16

The Discover Software Store is seeing new features and fixes coming down the pipe for KDE Applications 5.16. Checking the relevant sources, it's apparent that the devs have been busy once again here. Discover Software Store Here's what's New In The Discover Software Store For Plasma 5.16 So Far Discover’s Updates page - Apps and packages...

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Highlighting Some Really Elegant KDE Plasma Wallpapers From The Collection Of PT_Alfred

Some really nice KDE Plasma wallpapers for your Plasma desktop Every once in a while, we like to relax a little bit. Kick back, and play around with our Linux boxes. And, every once in a while, something truly elegant comes along and I just feel the need to highlight it here for our readers. And, well, this is one of those times. Recently, whilst...

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You Can Design The Next Plasma Wallpaper And Win A Slimbook!

The KDE Community announces contest to design the new Plasma 5.16 wallpaper Some people think wallpapers are the most exciting thing ever. Others are indifferent, simply installing their personal favorite and switching to it ASAP. Whatever your opinion on the matter however, the truth is that the default wallpaper is the first...

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We Have A New Poll Out On Twitter: What's Your Biggest Wish For KDE Plasma?

Just out of curiosity, what are your biggest wishes for KDE plasma?  We have put a new poll up on our Twitter account for you to give us your thoughts. If one of the choices does not represent what you think is the biggest area needing improvement in KDE Plasma, feel free to leave your thoughts all the matter. Thanks in advance for voting!...

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KDE Elisa Music Player Gaining More Features Again, Roadmap Is Impressive

It seems we're talking about the Elisa music player a lot these days, and this is no doubt due to the fact that the application is seeing some steady development lately. This includes some contributions from new developers as well, which is always nice to see. One of the nice features of Elisa is using the color palette of the cover art to create...

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Sometimes You Have To Pay For Open Source Software Or Services, And That's OK

We in the open-source world enjoy so many freedoms that we are grateful and thankful for. In general, we reap the benefits of avoiding vendor lock-in, for example, and are free to use and reuse code as we see fit for our own reasons. We are able to get things done for business, pleasure, and education all with tools freely available...

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KDE Neon Team's Jonathan Riddell Discusses Snaps Within KDE Neon And The Greater KDE Ecosystem

The problem with the way packaging and distribution has been done in the past In case one has not noticed, a lot of changes have been happening with regard to how software is packaged and delivered to the end of the chain, i.e. a particular distribution's users. In the past, software was released by developers as source code, whereby packagers...

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Netrunner Rolling 2019.04 Arch-based KDE Distribution Sees A New Release

The KDE Plasma-focused distribution Netrunner Rolling has seen a new release. For those new to Netrunner, it's a dual-distribution that comes in two 64-bit varieties, as well as for ARM. These include Netrunner - based on Debian Testing, and Netrunner Rolling, based on Manjaro / Arch. For those who refer a rolling release model, the Netrunner team...

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All KDE Plasma 5 Wallpapers Released So Far In One Place: Plasma 5.0 - 5.14

Ahhh nostalgia. To some degree, we all have it. We all relish in it from time to time. Thinking about those things that hearken back to a point-in-time in the past, where we were excited about what was happening in the open source world, and (what is now) the future. Such as it is for some of us with wallpapers. Who can forget the Windows XP wallpaper,...

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Several Updated Applications Landing In KDE Neon Today

Today saw several updated applications landing in the KDE Neon repositories, the KDE Neon team announced today. Arriving fresh for your downloading or installing pleasure are the following: Skrooge 2.19 KMyMoney 5.0.4 Kipi Plugins 5.9.1  Kdenlive major refactoroo 19.04 It would appear to be a good day for those of you looking to either...

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Potential Security Flaw In KDE's Krusader And Akregator Remain Unfixed In KDE Applications 19.04

A potential security risk has come to light from a few interconnected bug reports over on the KDE bug tracker website. These bug reports indicate that a user using either Konqeror or Akregator may be subject to tracking and / or fingerprinting across the web, even when steps are taken to implicitly prevent this from happening. It should be noted...

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