Akademy Awards 2009 – Winners Announced

Jul 09, 2009

The purpose of the Desktop summit on Gran Canaria is not only to improve cooperation and collaboration between the Gnome and KDE developers. As every year, a select few KDE developers will receive the project specific Akademy Award. We will introduce the winners.

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Mutter: Window Manager in GNOME's Future

Jul 08, 2009

GNOME developer Thomas Thurman describes the future of the Metacity 2 window manager in a project blog. Apparently a new GNOME component named Mutter will be taking over its functions.

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Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Akonadi for the Integrated Desktop

Jul 05, 2009

The Cross-Desktop Metadata track at this year's Gran Canaria Summit highlighted developer activity targeting central storage of contact data, email and other personal information.

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Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Better Audio for Free Desktops

Jul 05, 2009

On the second day of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Gnome and KDE developers have been focused on topics surrounding meta data, community, and infrastructure. Concerning multimedia, audio support for the open source desktop has proved to be a hot topic.

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Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: KDE and Gnome Formulate Common Goals

Jul 05, 2009

On the first day of the joint developer conference on Gran Canaryia, representatives of the desktop projects Gnome and KDE formulated common goals for their future development.

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Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Saints, Gentlemen and Schoolchildren

Jul 04, 2009

At the start of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit on the Canary Islands, Richard Stallman, Robert Lefkowitz and Walter Bender rallied open source developers in their common tasks.

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Free Software Projects An up-to-date overview of free software and its makers

Jun 30, 2009

Voice over IP on the Internet gives communication a personal touch, but it takes applications like Cheese and WebcamStudio to exploit the creative potential of Internet telephony.

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Device Tricks Intro Techniques for working with devices in Linux

Jun 30, 2009

Linux is getting much better at managing devices, and the versatility of open source software leads to some interesting innovations.

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