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Enhancing Your Work Habits with KDE
KDE Productivity Options
KDE extends the concept of the desktop with innovations that can significantly enhance your productivity.
The League of Moveable Type
Open Source Fonts
The Free Font Movement is transforming free software, one character at a time.
Snowdrift.coop
The Funding Dilemma
Snowdrift.coop aims to solve some of the problems facing free software funding by linking the amount of an individual pledge to the number of donors willing to share the financial commitment.
Krita: KDE's Powerful Graphics Editor Takes on Photoshop and GIMP
Krita: Listening to the Pros
How a hobby project succeeded with the help of users.
KDE Visual Design Group
Designing User Satisfaction
The KDE Visual Design Group follows basic principles to elevate and simplify the user experience.
ownCloud: The Project That Became a Company
ownCloud
Many companies try to create a free software project around their products; however, ownCloud has taken the opposite approach, creating a company around a project.
34 Free Software Advocates Elected to European Parliament
Free Software Wins in European Elections
Free software advocacy groups in Europe signed up 162 pro-free software candidates, 34 of whom were elected to the European Parliament.
Hide Cloud Data from the Cloud Vendor
Secure Storage with Tahoe-LAFS
Innovative project offers cloud storage with the "Principle of Least Authority."
Detecting Attackers with Tripwire
Silent Guardian
Tripwire is a powerful tool that protects your systems against unwanted changes.
ThinkUp
Keeping Watch: Keep Track of Your Social Media
Community managers, professional marketers, and active social media users want to know the effect their messages have on followers. ThinkUp can help.
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New Linux Flaw Lets Attackers Escape VMs
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System76 Refreshes the Lemur Laptop
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Kubuntu Focus Goes Ultra
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Three Lines of Code Improve Linux Storage Performance
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AUR Hit Again with Malicious Packages
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Alpine Linux 3.24 Features Fresh Desktops and a Newer Kernel
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EU Open Source Strategy Plays Key Role in Tech Sovereignty Package
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