Kickoff for KDE on Maemo
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more »OpenOffice 3.x: 100 Million Downloads
Oct 29, 2009The OpenOffice project has celebrated the 100,000,000 download of its free office suite since the release of version 3.0.
more »Firefox 3.6 Learns WOFF
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more »GNOME 3.0 Determines Boston Summit
Oct 16, 2009While the European Linux scene has been busy with KDE and Qt, a relatively unnoticed but important gathering occurred in the U.S. to determine the future of the GNOME desktop: the GNOME Boston Summit 2009.
more »First Plasma Widgets Ported to Maemo 5
Oct 15, 2009At the Maemo Summit in Amsterdam Nokia gave away 300 N900 Internet tablets to KDE and Qt developers. The result is the first porting of KDE programs to Maemo 5.
more »Kamoso 1.0: Webcam Tool for KDE 4
Oct 13, 2009Cheese is a simple yet practical graphic tool that has been available to Gnome users for quite a while. Kamoso now provides KDE fans with their own solution.
more »Code Statistics: KDE Costs 175 Million Dollars
Oct 12, 2009The official KDE Project currently consists of 4.2 million lines of code. Cornelius Schumacher has applied the lines to individual projects and published the stats.
more »OpenDesktop Community Choose Winners of Desktop Contest
Oct 12, 2009About-information from developer profiles, desktop searches in online forums, an interface library and update notification of web page content bring the concept of a social desktop a step closer to reality.
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