Tag: kde
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KDE Linux on Pre-Alpha
Project Banana ripens into a pre-alpha for KDE Linux, and you can test it. Desktop project’s in-house distro is impressively ambitious, but nowhere near ready. The former “Project Banana” now has a more sober name, albeit one a bit trickier to search for. KDE Linux is an all-new desktop Linux distro being developed as a showcase…
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KDE and GNOME to offer official distros
KDE and GNOME have decided that because they’re not big and complicated enough already, they might work better if they have their own custom distributions underneath. What’s the worst that could happen? A talk from this year’s KDE conference, Akademy 2024, looks like it’s going to become real. The talk, by KDE developer Harald Sitter,…
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KDE Plasma 6.2.3: Better Support for HDR Displays
This release adds support for the fwupd 2.0 firmware updater utility in the Plasma Discover package manager. Share this article:KDE Plasma 6.2.3The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.2.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and various improvements. KDE Plasma 6.2.3 is here…
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This week in Plasma: 6.2 beta release
Technically Akademy isn’t part of Plasma, but most of KDE’s movers and shakers were here in Würzburg for Akademy 2024 this week, so the list of technical work merged was understandably light; we were all busy with conference things! I’ve already blogged about my Akademy experience separately; check it out here if you’re interested. Despite…
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New Arch Linux ISO Release with Kernel 6.8
The archinstall menu-based installer received better support for unified kernel images and the KDE Plasma desktop environment. For those of you who want to install Arch Linux, there’s a new official ISO snapshot available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.8 and featuring an improved installation experience. That’s right, the Arch Linux devs were forced…
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KDE 6 Update Arrives With Big Plasma Desktop Updates
The Plasma desktop for Linux and cross-platform KDE apps just got massive updates. KDE Plasma is one of the most popular desktop environments for Linux PCs and phones, and the connected KDE framework powers many apps on Linux, Mac, and Windows. KDE 6 has been released, and it’s a massive update. The KDE team wrote…
