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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

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