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One of these things is not like the others
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| Having a faster machine in the house means
| I have the luxury of trying out some of
| the bigger, heavier distros without
| feeling like Iâm having my brain pressed
| through a bowl of mashed potatoes. I
| consider it homework, making sure I keep
| up-to-date on what the bulkier versions of
| Linux can do, and at what cost.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others/
Plasma Netbook 4.5
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| Some of those changes are quite visible at
| a UI level, some other are more under the
| hood, but contribute to give to it a more
| "finished" look and feel to it.
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http://www.notmart.org/index.php/Software/Plasma_Netbook_4.5
Going where no gearheads have gone beforeâ
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| Thomas Jensch from the FSFE initiated our
| presence at the event and is networking with
| church representatives, something I could
| not do, since I know way too little about
| internal church organization (and probably
| donât want to know either). I guess he
| will report more about that. What we (that
| is the KDE folks) talk about with people
| coming to our booth is free software in
| general and KDE in particular, depending
| on the interest of our visitors and their
| knowledge level. People here come with
| very varying backgrounds, we get the
| occasional Linux power user, but mostly
| itâs down to the basics. There is often an
| understanding why open standards are
| important and from there on we can talk
| about the freedoms (of free software) or
| drift off to how great KDE is. Sometimes
| it was interesting to see people running
| away when we ask them if they knew about
| free software. Typically they would mumble
| something about not knowing much about
| computers. But those are only very few
| people, most visitors are very interested.
| Sometimes on the other hand, people donât
| want the philosophical talk and are happy
| instead to just play with our shiny KDE
| demo machine. This event we have different
| apps running, Palapeli worked quite well
| as eye-catcher, running on a big monitor.
| Of course we are happy to show more apps
| and give some introductions to how KDE
| works. Some teenagers enjoyed the puzzle
| and completely ignored our lecturing about
| philosophy behind it :) We gave away quite
| some Linux dvds and FSFE handouts to the
| people that are actually interested. For
| the next time I hope weâll have a one page
| âwhat is KDEâ handout. That would be niceâ
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http://blogs.fsfe.org/gladhorn/2010/05/18/going-where-no-gearheads-have-gone-before/
Rekonq: A Quick Glance At Kubuntu Next Default Browser
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| The talk of the town is that the next
| version of Kubuntu (10.10, codenamed
| Maverick Meerkat) will have a new default
| browser, replacing Konqueror, the longtime
| KDE favorite. The replacement browser may
| very well be Rekonq, a browser that could
| be viewed as a next-generation approach to
| Konqueror.
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http://maketecheasier.com/rekonq-a-quick-glance-at-kubuntu-next-default-browser/2010/05/19
Yet Another GSoC update : libface gets Face Recognition
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| To those who do not know: As part of my
| GSoC work, Iâm committing to libface , an
| open-source face recognition library made
| by me and my mentor Alex Jironkin. libface
| shall be used for the upcoming Face
| Detection and Recognition support in
| digiKam.
|
| [...]
|
| And tagging. Iâve just checked out a fresh
| copy of Adrian Bustanyâs nepomuk-peopletag
| project, which has been abandoned since
| about two years or so. Iâll be modifying
| it â actually it involves removal of code,
| not much actual coding. Iâll be removing
| the nepomuk-specific code from it (no
| offense to the Nepomuk people), as digiKam
| shall talk to Nepomuk through itâs own
| interfacing.
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http://adityabhatt.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/yet-another-gsoc-update-libface-gets-face-recognition/
Recent:
Akonadi Meeting and the KDE SC 4.5 release
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| We are at the Akonadi meeting at the KDAB
| offices in Berlin right now, which was
| quite nice so far. We had the first round
| of API review of new methods in KDEPIMLIBS
| for 4.5, and already cleaned up quite a
| bit. Having multiple eyes look at the API
| is a nice way to improve the overall
| quality of the API. We met with Andrey
| Moiseenko and Alvaro Manera of Nokia, who
| work on calendaring for the next Meego
| phone from Nokia. They use our KCal
| library, which they have forked/extended
| for some special requirements they have.
| Weâre now making plans with them to
| integrate their changes back to our
| version of KCal, so that both sides will
| profit from changes and have a single
| point of maintenance.
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http://thomasmcguire.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/akonadi-meeting-and-the-kde-sc-4-5-release/
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