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KDE’s Plasma 5.20 is now available, bringing a bunch of refinements as well as some larger features. Some of the KDE Plasma 5.20 highlights include (via Phoronix):
– Numerous fixes to the KWin window manager / compositor including a number of Wayland … Continue reading KDE Plasma 5.20 Released
jrepin writes: The KDE community has released Plasma 5.19, the popular free and open-source desktop environment. “In this release, we have prioritized making Plasma more consistent, correcting and unifying designs of widgets and desktop elements; worke… Continue reading KDE Plasma 5.19 Released
It seems to me there are two camps when it comes to the Raspberry Pi. Some people use them as little PCs or even laptops with a keyboard and screen connected. But many of us use them as cheap Linux servers. I’m in the latter camp. I have probably had …read more
jrepin writes: The KDE community today announced the release of Plasma 5.18. This version of the popular desktop environment is the latest long-term supported release and brings an emoji selector, user feedback capabilities, a global edit mode, and imp… Continue reading KDE Plasma 5.18 Released
If you are running a KDE desktop environment on your Linux operating system, you need to be extra careful and avoid downloading any “.desktop” or “.directory” file for a while.
A cybersecurity researcher has disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerabili… Continue reading KDE Linux Desktops Could Get Hacked Without Even Opening Malicious Files
Long-time Slashdot reader jrepin writes: The KDE community has released Plasma 5.16, the newest iteration of the popular desktop environment. It features an improved notification system, Not only can you mute notifications altogether with the Do Not Di… Continue reading KDE Plasma 5.16 Released
Google’s Play Store made a bad mistake on Tuesday, long-time Slashdot reader sombragris writes:
KDE Connect, a project designed to enable seamless communcation and control between a desktop computer and a mobile phone, was suddenly removed from Andro… Continue reading Google Play Store Mistakenly Removed KDE Connect
jrepin writes: Today, KDE launched Plasma 5.15, the first stable release of the popular desktop environment in 2019. For this release the Plasma team has focused on hunting down and removing all the paper cuts that slow you down. Plasma 5.15 brings a n… Continue reading KDE Plasma 5.15 Released
jrepin writes: KDE has released Plasma 5.14 desktop. Among many other things, Plasma 5.14 simplifies managing multiple displays thanks to its new Display Configuration widget; Global Menus a la macOS now work also with GTK applications like GIMP; a new… Continue reading KDE Plasma 5.14 Released
If you’re the kind of person who likes small and cheap Linux devices, you’re definitely alive in the perfect moment in history. It seems as if every few months we’ve got another tiny Linux board competing for our pocket change, all desperate to try to dethrone the Raspberry Pi which has already set the price bar exceptionally high (or low, as the case may be). We’ve even started to see these Linux boards work their way into appropriately cheap laptops, though so far none have really made that great of an impression.
But thanks to the efforts of Blue Systems …read more