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OpenSUSE v11.3 released

Kubuntu Tutorials day, 7th July

The annual Kubuntu Tutorials Day is to be held on 7th July 2010. It's held on the #kubuntu-devel IRC channel on Freenode and there are the following sessions:

  • 18:00UTC, Kubuntu Maverick: An exciting six months ahead, Jonathan Riddell
  • 19:00UTC, Introduction to Qt Quick and QML: The exiting new way of developing applications, Alan Alpert, Nokia
  • 20:00UTC, Packaging and Merging with the Ninjas: How to make and merge .deb packages, Rohan Garg (shadeslayer)

Kubuntu v9.10 released

From Kubuntu website:

Version 9.10 (i.e. Oct 2009) of Kubuntu, the version of Ubuntu with a KDE desktop, has been released (codename: Karmic Koala). Major new features:

OpenSUSE to have KDE as default desktop

[opensuse-project] Decision made - openFATE feature 306967, KDE default

The default desktop in OpenSUSE Linux will be KDE as of version 11.2, following discussion within the community which found that KDE was the preferred desktop of most users of the distro. GNOME will not be removed; what this means is that if the user accepts the defaults, KDE and not GNOME will be installed.

PC-BSD v7.1.1 released with KDE 4.2.4

PC-BSD - PC-BSD Changelog - 7.1.1

Version 7.1.1 of PC-BSD, a FreeBSD-based desktop-oriented operating system for Intel/AMD PCs, has been released. Major changes:

Kubuntu Tutorials Day next Monday

KubuntuTutorialsDay - Ubuntu Wiki

There is to be a Kubuntu Tutorials Day next Monday (29th June) to run from 1900 to 2400 UTC, with questions and answers afterwards. The tutorials are:

Fedora 11 released with KDE v4.2.2

Version 11 of the Fedora Linux distribution, codenamed Leonidas, has been released. This version features KDE v4.2.2 and Qt v4.5.0 (you can usually get up to date packages through the standard update channel, unlike with Debian-type distros).

Kubuntu v9.04 release candidate out

Kubuntu 9.04 RC available

A release candidate (likely to be the only one) of Kubuntu v9.04, codenamed Jaunty Jackalope or just Jaunty, has been released. This version includes KDE v4.2.2 and Digikam v0.10.0, neither of which had been released at the time of the beta. For full information, including download locations and important changes, see here. This is part of the forthcoming Ubuntu release, which includes Linux kernel version 2.6.28, Ext4 file system support, GNOME 2.26, X.org server v1.6 and Eucalyptus, which facilitates cloud computing; for more information see here.

PC-BSD 7.1 released with KDE 4.2

Version 7.1 of PC-BSD, a desktop-targeted operating system derived from FreeBSD, has been released. This is the first to feature KDE 4 (version 4.2.2); the BSD backend is updated to FreeBSD 7.1, making it the first to offer a journalled filesystem (FreeBSD's own, not Linux compatible). Other changes:

  • Xorg v7.4
  • New print manager, removing need to use CUPS web interface
  • Software & Updates application, consolidating "Add/remove Programs" tool and the updater
  • Updater Tray streamlined into tray-only update notifier
  • FreeBSD ports and packages can now be created by utilizing the "runports" command
  • Greater stability for Flash 9 allows users to get higher quality from Flash sites such as Hulu and Youtube
  • Enhancements to installer, including option to upgrade while preserving the userland
  • Fixes to Wi-Fi and networking, and to Linux emulation

Full changelog here; downloads for both old-style and 64-bit PCs here.

Slackware adopts KDE 4.2

Slackware, one of the last Linux distributions to still be shipping KDE 3 instead of KDE 4, has replaced that version with version 4.2.1 in its "current" package set. This is probably the biggest change to the package tree in Slackware's history, and also includes XFce 4.6, kernel 2.6.28.7, gcc 4.3.3 and glibc 2.9 ("more like 2.10") (full changelog here).

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