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Since a few days Kitware is hosting a cdash dashboard for kdelibs. The ctest config file in kdelibs svn has been adapted accordingly. So if you run now "make Experimental" in kdelibs the build and test results will be submitted to http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=kdelibs . It would be very useful if we could get nightly builds for OSX, FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows, so we can make sure they stay compiling. Read More

openSUSE 11.0 is out and with it are a set of KDE PIM (Personal Information Management) packages from KDE 4.1. This is part of the KDE 4 desktop choice and they have been extensively patched to work with the KDE 4.0.4 libraries on 11.0, and contain backports from KDE 4.1 trunk. They have been tested thanks to our devoted opensuse-kde community, but fixes are still happening in trunk so here's the skinny on what will happen via online update as we approach KDE 4.1: openSUSE 11.0 released with kdepim 4.1beta1 DONE post-gold-master online update containing selected critical bugfixes DONE. This fixes some ugly bugs (kde#153740, #156319, #156990, #158354, #162673, #162707, #162711, #162897, #163159, #163268, and #163408, and the infamous bnc#398807 Kontact plugins missing beastie - we like to take care of our users pre-4.1 update when we feel 4.1beta2 has settled down to be an improvement over the above. Update to 4.1 final upon release Read More

KDE 4.1 Beta 2 + openSUSE 11.0 = KDE Four Live 1.0.83 :-)

As this will be my first post published on planet KDE, I want to use this opportunity to introduce myself a bit. I am Marijn Kruisselbrink, a 22 year old computer science student from The Netherlands. My first significant contribution to KDE happened last year when I participated in the Google Summer of Code to implement music notation support in KOffice. Aside from that I have also done some work on improving KDE on Mac OS X, by writing OSX implementations of some of the abstractions KDE provides. Also I've helped with this years Akademy by writing a large part of this years (and hopefully many years to come) registration system. Read More

The launch of openSUSE 11.0 was a big success and positive reviews keep showing up :-), two especially nice ones: ars technica: This is a very strong OpenSUSE release with a lot of compelling improvements. OpenSUSE 11 offers the best KDE 4 experience out there and will continue to be our reference distribution for KDE testing. Read More

Microsoft: "ODF has clearly won. We sell software for a living. The ability to implement ODF in the middle of our ship cycle was just not possible. We couldn't do that during the release of Office 2007. We're looking forward and committed to doing more than [ODF-to-OOXML] translators." Read More

Full text of valuable book "An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4" by Alan and Paul Ezust (Suffolk University) is now available online at http://cartan.cas.suffolk.edu/oopdocbook/opensource/ under OPL license. The authors also provided slides suitable for courses and exercises. Read More

We now have documentation for our custom KDE CMake Modules, brought to you by the EBN. I have a little script that runs every night to re-generate this page, just in case we changes things as time goes by. Read More

Release Announcement Hint: If you get your ISOs within the next 24h you will enjoy full Akamai speed.

Just as everyone else SHOULD be doing.... [image:3521 size="original" nolink=1] (thanks to whoever drew the artwork) Go HERE to vote if you're a member of Fedora With the election going on, I believe we'll have a great board elected to continue the progress Fedora is making. So do your part and VOTE NOW! Read More