KDE Blogs 

For the past few months we've been working on getting our bid to host GUADEC and Akademy in Gran Canaria for 2009. Agustin has done an amazing job in pulling it all together, and Alberto has been relaying his enthusiasm about the idea of co-located conferences to the Gnome guys. Read More

[image:3515 align=right hspace=2 vspace=2 width=341 height=256] openSUSE 11.0 will be finally released on Thursday! :-) The Sneak Peeks story about KDE has just been published and I want to follow up with a list how our Plasma desktop differs from the stock KDE 4.0 version. Read More

Today, the Dutch minister for Education and Culture, Plasterk, has defended the Dutch broadcaster NOS. NOS is broadcasting the games of the European Championship football using Microsoft malware Silverlight. This means that in order to view this broadcast you need to install this software on your computer. You can only install the software on computers with Microsoft Windows or on Apple computers. Read More

As Friedrich already noticed, blogs are where discussions happen nowadays... Well, also responding to one of Ade's posts, where he states "I've been starting CMake "experimental" builds on various Solaris machines with SS12 to get numbers on how many warnings and errors we're producing. Since Dirk's dashboard works quite well for the vast majority of our developers -- Linux based -- I think a separate dashboard that counts and reports issues for non-Linux builds would be useful. " Yes, it would be really nice to have nightly (or daily) builds of KDE (at least kdelibs) on more exotic platforms. Which means for KDE basically everything != Linux, i.e. Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows, OSX, more ? Read More

The Dutch like it cheap. We do not like rules. That's just the way we are. The people at NOS are no different. They have a contract with UEFA (or so they say) which requires them to broadcast the games of the European Championship only in DRM format. NOS is using this as an excuse to pendel Microsoft malware. Read More

So some guy from Nokia named Ari Jaaksi was speaking at some conference and said something along the lines of open source developers needing to be "educated" about consumer restriction technologies like DRM. Read More

I am a proud owner of a Geeko. Those seemed to be out of stock and not produced anymore. But now I spotted a first merchant which promises new Geekos for second half of 2008 - and not only a 35cm version but also a 120cm big one! :-) That's of course still not as huge as the mother of all Geekos in the SUSE office in Nuremberg.

Great news: Robert Kubica (Poland, 23) has won his first F1 Grand Prix (in Canada). Moreover, in the same time another Pole, Lukas Podolski, scored two goals in Euro 2008 match, the first one was assisted by Mirek Klose. Read More

Kubuntu Tutorials Day is back. Join us on IRC for some fascinating chats with Free Software's finest developers. We have five months of development ahead of us for Intrepid, so this is the perfect way to learn how to get involved. Read More

It has been several months since I blogged about exciting openSUSE stuff happening (all about at the same time). The next few weeks enough long in the work things are on the home stretch to make June an openSUSE month: :-) Read More