Latest KDE obliterates the competition

Imagine 52 million children being simultaneously introduced to KDE and Linux. Well, you no longer need to just imagine it, because the Ministry of Education Brazil, over the course of this and next year, will do exactly that. This is unabashed success.


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KDE 4.0.0 is out. The dream is alive!

KDE 4.0.0 release logo

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A cursory look into KDE 4 file management: Dolphin beta

Windows has Explorer. Mac OS has Finder. GNOME has Nautilus. And KDE had, up to a number of months ago, Konqueror. Now, together with the up-and-coming KDE 4, a simple file manager named Dolphin takes on file management. So how does Dolphin stack up?

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A visual stroll through the world of KDE 4 Beta (3.94)

Curious about how the next generation of KDE looks like? Be curious no more: here’s a bleeding-edge (really, sometimes it bleeds) look at the latest — 3.94 — beta of KDE 4.

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KDE and automounting USB drives in KUbuntu Linux

Oh, dear and holy Lazyweb, help! My pen drive mounts automatically — I don’t want that. I temporarily disabled the media manager service in the KDE Control Center service manager; but I want to keep it on, with automounting off (in GNOME this is the default). How do I do that?

MoLa: Should I use open source apps before diving into Linux?

Better late than never! The first question I’m answering in the Month of Linux answers series is: Would it be best for people considering moving to linux to start using open source software on their Windows computers first?

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I changed to KUbuntu Feisty Fawn

Yes, I changed to KUbuntu a few hours ago.

And it’s surprisingly good. After a decade of using RPM-based distributions (first Red Hat 5.2, then Mandrake, then Red Hat 9, then Fedora), I’m now using a Debian-based distro.

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Interview with the KTorrent developers

Today, Rudd-O.com talks with the KTorrent developers in an exclusive interview.

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Is Ubuntu really going low-spec?

We all want to run Linux on 64 MB of RAM. But Ubuntu Lite’s way is not the right one.

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