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A shiny new Kubuntu release all for you. You can install it safe in the knowledge that the Kubuntu community will make security updates and major bug fixes for 5 years along with Canonical's lovely resources doing the same on much of the rest of the Ubuntu packages. There's a few Known issues in this release I'm unhappy with, kmix crashes, akonadi upgrades are still not pleasant, Plasma activity manager likes to crash too, and users of 11.10 need to update to the latest packages before starting an upgrade. Sorry about those, we'll get onto them. Read More

I've had some questions about Planet KDE recently. Planet KDE is intended for personal blogs of KDE contributors blogging with a KDE focus. All KDE contributors are welcome to add their feeds to planet by editing the file in svn or filing a bug. Read More

So Thursday and Friday last week I was in Brussels for an ODF plugfest representing KO GmbH and the Calligra project. The plugfest is some kind of a mix between interacting with other ODF implementors (like Microsoft, IBM, LibreOffice etc), and a publicity event to engage the government and industry in the country where the plugfest is held. Read More

Ubuntu release date is set for Thursday so it's non-stop testing until then. All helpers needed - Kubuntu team will test everything in all permutations but it's never a good thing to be the only tester on software for which you are responsible for, third parties always needed. So join us in #kubuntu-devel and #ubuntu-testing and report results in the ISO tracker.

At Calligra we are mising several icons, including several applications icons. So we are seeking an artist that are capable of creating oxygen compatible icons. You will become a member of our very cool community, and take part of the revolution we are determined to make in the world of office and creative applications. Read More

With the availability of the Qt 5 alpha, I thought I'd try to summarise what's been done in the SSL stack. Most of the changes in Qt 5 for SSL are incremental improvements, or things that will form the basis of future changes. In this post I'll try to highlight the main changes: Read More

Calligra has been released, KDE's document suite of applications. It has applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing and much more. Congratulations Calligra team. Install the packages from kubuntu-ppa/backports or direct from 12.04.

<img src="http://www.calligra.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/calligra-logo-transparent-for-light-600.png" width="600" height="425" After about 2 years of development and 1½ year since we officially formed the Calligra project I'm happy that Calligra 2.4 is being released later today. In my vision Calligra becomes a ground breaking fresh alternative to the established free and proprietary players. Calligra should create history and revolutionize it. We are not there yet, but we have great plans and are very much still evolving. Read More

A while ago I had to announce that Canonical weren't going to sponsor Kubuntu any more. 'Fair enough' I thought, Canonical needs to make money and after dropping support for Gnome support for KDE couldn't be far behind. Then I got e-mails from companies, governments and individuals saying they depend on it, use it every day for themselves, their clients and their families. It turns out Kubuntu is very popular and important, people really use this KDE stuff I've been working on for the last decade. Blue Systems took the plunge first and said they'd sponsor the project so Kubuntu will continue as a community led, KDE focused Ubuntu flavour and will branch out into new areas like the tablet and ARM. Maybe even server? (KDE has nice apps in OwnCloud and Kolab, these should be better integrated into Ubuntu.) So an exciting future, want to join us?

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