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Kubuntu 8.10 is out! This release is the first fully supported one with KDE 4. If you're the cautious sort and you're not sure if KDE 4 is for you yet then try out the live CD to give it a test. You are welcome to stay with 8.04 and the fully supported KDE 3 if you want to stay with what you know. Read More

No blog for over a month as everyone is busy with openSUSE 11.1. The release countdown counter got kicked off too again. What will openSUSE 11.1 bring? In short the best shipped KDE desktop yet (KDE 4.1.3 with many backports and patches, no KDE3 or even Gtk+ apps running by default, Will is heavily busy with NetworkManager-kde4 plasmoid) as well all other latest and greatest versions (like OpenOffice.org 3.0 and Gimp 2.6). Read More

I have been facinated with mind mapping now for about 3 years. I have been using it on a regular basis for trying to organize disjointed thoughts, make coherent sense out of brainstorming sessions, and lately for every day design documentation. For those of you not familiar with mindmaps check out the wikipedia link on the subject. Read More

Almost! More testers wanted though, join us in #kubuntu-devel for the final sprint.

Kubuntu 8.10 is due out this week. If you want to help make that happen we need people to test the CDs, DVDs and upgrades. Grab the Alternate CDs. Desktop CD and DVDs should appear shortly. Follow these upgrade instructions. Read More

KdeDevelopers, while a helpful site, did not allow for registration-less comments. Since I'd like to use my blog as a means of easily communicating with the community, I've switched to my own self-hosted WordPress blog.

Today the Systems Fair in Munich ended. I only spent yesterday and today there helping at the KDE booth. Eckhart and Holger spent all week there and I am deeply impressed that they still were in very good spirits and were lots of fun to manage the booth with :) Read More

I've been watching the development of KDE for a while, submitting bug reports and testing trunk, and last night I made my first patch. I received an svn account and decided to start working on Amarok 2, for which I'm currently fixing this bug. But I also intend to work on other areas of KDE, after I poke around for a while and learn the general layout of the project. Suggestions? To begin, I think I might start investigating this bug. I also work on the Arora Browser. Read More

I landed the Python script engine for Plasma in KDE trunk about a week ago and already and the keen and excitable among us have been franticly trying to get it all set up and installed. rgreening said it best on IRC "I've been wanting this sooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad". Now that's what I call an endorsement. ;-) So if you are running KDE trunk out of subversion and you want to have a go at the Python support then you can have a look at this wiki page which I hastily wrote which describes what needs to be installed and in which order: Read More

Are you a KDE developer? Do you want to help improve the KDE desktop experience? Then Canonical's all new desktop experience team is looking to hire you. Let me know if you have any questions.