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We're having a great meeting here in Munich, last night we collected a range of topics to chat about and today we've been moving post-it notes about as we discuss topics and fix problems. I'm enjoying it a lot. Read More

We're meeting in Munich at the offices of LiMux who have just completed their transition to convert the whole of public administration in Munich to Kubuntu, over 15,000 computers. Tux is supporting the wrong football team Read More

It's little advertised but KDE has an office in Barcelona. With Scotland getting cold, dark and wet I set off in search of sun and colleagues to have a change of scene and improve my health after a surgeon poked needles into my eye. Read More

Linuxcon ended in spectacular style with a party at the National Museum of Scotland, shown here with the interesting addition of a full marching band. Dolly the sheep was supposed to be on display but ran off at the sound of the bagpipes. Read More

Linus is visiting Edinburgh today for a Q&A session at LinuxCon. Asked where he'd like to see Linux in 5 years time he said he started Linux because he wanted to use it on his desktop but he's been disappointed how that hasn't taken off. He wishes desktop communities would stop arguing amongst competing technologies and would work together. How true. (And I continue to feel smug about being part of a community which hasn't started a new project to replace any desktop or desktop technology). Read More

I gave a lightning talk at Linuxcon about KDE and Kubuntu highlighting some of the mega rollouts with Kubuntu such as the <a href"http://dot.kde.org/2013/10/02/ezgo-free-and-open-source-software-taiwans-schools">one which is about to take over Taipai. Read More

Linux has come to my home with Linuxcon in Edinburgh. Me and Kenny C are manning the KDE stall showing off KDE software running Krita on a desktop (bling), Plasma Active on a Nexus (swish, very popular), KDE Software on Windows (ooh I didn't know you did that) and giving away lots of lanyards. If you're here do come over and say hi. Read More

Packaged full of lovely goodness is the upgrade to 13.10, grab it now.. http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-13.10 Highlights include... New Software from KDE - KDE Plasma and Applications 4.11 New app installer - Muon Discover New accounts setup - User Manager Easier to get everything during install - Wireless Setup in Installer KDE Telepathy with Better Text Editing and Improved Notifications New Network Manager applet Easier to report what you're using with About System documentation returns at http://docs.kubuntu.org still using good old X.org and planning to follow the rest of the ecosystem with Wayland Read More

Bugs are a pain, especially when a fiddly one comes along involving Python bindings, the number of people who understand SIP is pretty low. So it's nice we were able to fix it quickly. In the reporter's words: Read More

The Krita Lime PPA provides daily builds of the best free software painting application out there. For aspiring artists Krita is a fabulous app to create works of inspiration. Krita is optimised for painting but I also use it for many image manipulation tasks, it's installed by default in Kubuntu. Read More