Hostingadvice.com runs a story How KDE’s Vast Open-Source Community Has Been Developing Technologies to Bring Reliable, Monopoly-Free Computing to the World for 20+ Years. The article gives background to the how and why of KDE, and includes an interview with KDE's Sebastian Kügler for some more in-depth insights. From the article:
The 2011 Members' Choice Awards from LinuxQuestions.org has honored the KDE Community with "Best Desktop Environment of the Year". In addition, Tech Radar has declared that KDE Workspaces are the best desktop environment. KDE innovation, performance and stability have particular appeal for users.
The Qt Blog covers topics relevant to Qt developers relating to innovative developments and applications using the latest Qt technology. They have noticed the ongoing development of Kontact Mobile from the KDE community by KDAB, and partners Intevation and g10code. The blog has a nice article about Kontact Mobile from a product perspective.
Ikhaya, the news portal of ubuntuusers.de, has a two part interview with Aaron Seigo, lead Plasma developer and designer (part one and part two).
The new software from KDE's recent 4.5 Release Day has been well received by the technical media with widespread positive reviews and recognition of the focus on quality for this set of releases.
Read on for a summary.
KDE software features on the cover of this month's Linux Magazine as Marcel Gagné explains how easy it is to create your own custom Plasma Desktop experience by crafting Plasma widgets using JavaScript.
Akademy is barely over, but tech news sites and mainstream publications are already reporting on events in Tampere. Read on for a summary of the news picks so far.
CBS' geektastic sitcom sensation "The Big Bang Theory" has joined a long list of KDE television outings with main character Leonard Hofstadter wearing Konqueror on his chest in last night's episode, "The Vengeance Formulation". View pictures inside!
Kshitij Sobti has written a nice article over at ThinkDigit.com about installing KDE 4 applications on Windows. He takes a look at the installation process and reviews some key applications such as Dolphin and Okular, praising Dolphin's "simple yet rich interface" and suggesting that "Okular can serve as a good replacement for Acrobat Reader". Kopete, Akregator and Kate are also featured. Read the full article.
Since KDE 4.3 has been released, various reviews have appeared on the web. KDE Dot News had a look at some of them. Read on for an overview!