Posts Tagged KDE
Synchronicity: Amarok in the Field
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on October 19, 2010
I recently had an opportunity to put Amarok to the test: at a 2-day outdoor rock festival I promote, I dragged out bits of my mini-home studio to provide backstage BBQ and after-party tunes. The Gear You can see from my awesome photography the basics: a laptop (running KDE on Arch), a couple of Mackie [...]
Demystifying Akonadi
Sebastian Kügler has a very informative essay, covering lots of good stuff about Akonadi. KDE in General I’m very glad to see this sort of thing, for I have long lamented that KDE is not getting out good information on all the advances they are making. I’ve been on KDE 4.5 on my laptop since it [...]
Netrunner Blacklight Released!
Huzzah! So, the official (and huge) ISO for the second release of Netrunner is up, out and available right now! (torrent) Here’s the distrowatch announcement. Moving to KDE The biggest change in this version is moving to KDE for the desktop. Something important to understand about that: when I say “KDE for the desktop”, that doesn’t [...]
The Future of KDE
Bruce Byfield has up an interview with Aaron Seigo on the Future of KDE. Good Stuff I like to hear about some of the new stuff for KDE: Desktop changes according to geo-location? Very neat! OpenChange, the “Samba for Exchange”? Much needed! That’s good stuff – exciting and useful with clear potential. Confusing Stuff Confession time: [...]
KDE 4.4 Positive Spin
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 9, 2010
I just ran across KDE 4.4 Positive Spin over on Brain Dump – my first time seeing this blog. The author, Andy Crouch, makes a good point: It’s interesting to see that even now, 2 years down the line people are still bringing up the KDE 4.0 release. Perhaps it’s me but I don’t (either [...]
Review: qBittorrent
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Reviews on December 22, 2009
It was a little rough getting there, but KDE 4 has reached a point where I’m using it on all my machines. The pain was worth it (barely) and KDE is by far the most satisfying desktop environment for my personal use. That being said, I was running into quite a few strange problems with [...]
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