KDE and GNOME Users Different Download Habits: related news

KDE Launches User Forum

KDE Community Launches Web-based Bulletin Board Using MyBB The KDE Community today launches the new KDE Forum. The new forum uses the bulletin board software MyBB offering users, developers and people interested in KDE a place to help each other, discuss KDE-related topics and exchange ideas. The KDE Forum complements KDE's UserBase, the home for KDE users as a valuable support resource. In collaboration with KDE, the developers behind MyBB have decided to release their forum software under the terms of the GPL Version 3. Chris Boulton, project manager at the MyBB Group "The KDE forum guys have come to us with the wish to use their forum software. In this process, we needed to clear out our licensing, also to make it easier for the KDE community to leverage MyBB.

KDE and GNOME Users: Different Download Habits

Most GNU/Linux users get the bulk of their applications from their distribution's repositories. However, those who want the cutting edge take to the Web to find it, often to GNOMEfiles if they use the GNOME desktop, or to KDE.apps.org if they use KDE.

KDE and GNOME Users: Different Download Habits

Datamation: "Most GNU/Linux users get the bulk of their applications from their distribution's repositories. However, those who want the cutting edge take to the Web to find it, often to GNOMEfiles if they use the GNOME desktop, or to KDE.apps.org if they use KDE.".

2 KDE and GNOME Users: Different Download Habits

Most GNU/Linux users get the bulk of their applications from their distribution's repositories. However, those who want the cutting edge take to the Web to find it, often to GNOMEfiles if they use the GNOME desktop, or to KDE.apps.org if they use KDE.

KDE and GNOME Users: Different Download Habits

"GNOMEfiles' lists are dominated by administrative utilities. Its monitoring applications include the Computer Temperature Monitor and GNOME Sensor Applet, both of which offer users readings that are unavailable from a standard GNOME install, and gnoMint, which manages certification authorities.

KDE Community Launches New Forum

The KDE Community has launched the new KDE Forum. The new forum uses the bulletin board software MyBB offering users, developers and people interested in KDE a place to help each other, discuss KDE-related topics and exchange ideas. The KDE Forum complements KDE's UserBase, the home for KDE users as a valuable support resource.

GNOME 2.24 available

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.24! ====================================== Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.24, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the day, GNOME 2.24 builds on top of a long series of successful six months releases to offer the best experience to users and developers. For more than 10 years now, the project has been seeing a tremendous amount of work. And as usual, it's hard to come back to a previous version of GNOME once you've tried GNOME 2.24, which is probably the best compliment the project can receive. This six months effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole GNOME community, made of contributors from all around the world: hackers, documentors

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.24

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.24! ====================================== Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.24, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the day, GNOME 2.24 builds on top of a long series of successful six months releases to offer the best experience to users and developers. For more than 10 years now, the project has been seeing a tremendous amount of work. And as usual, it's hard to come back to a previous version of GNOME once you've tried GNOME 2.24, which is probably the best compliment the project can receive. This six months effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole GNOME community, made of contributors from all around the world: hackers, documentors

GNOME 2.24 released

GNOME 2.24 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalization and accessibility support. GNOME is Free and Open Source Software and provides all of the common tools computer users expect of a modern computing environment, such as email, groupware, web browsing, file management, multimedia, and games. Furthermore, GNOME provides a flexible and powerful platform for software developers, both on the desktop and in mobile applications.

GNOME 2.24 Released

"GNOME 2.24 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalisation and accessibility support. GNOME is Free and Open Source Software and provides all of the common tools computer users expect of a modern computing environment, such as e-mail, groupware, web browsing, file management, multimedia and games. Furthermore, GNOME provides a flexible and powerful platform for software developers, both on the desktop and in mobile applications.

Improvements in GNOME 2.24 and Ubuntu 8.10

It'll be really hard for me to keep track which feature was done by which, so I'll post GNOME 2.24 and Ubuntu 8.10 as one. How is it hard? Well, I used to think that most of the things in Ubuntu were done by GNOME, but I was proven wrong when I looked deeply into the progress of Ubuntu 8.10 from alpha to final. I learned the new quit menus were taken from OpenSUSE (not to be confused with the quit menu being split up into three parts in System part of the Menu Bar; that was by GNOME), that most of the work on the new FUSA applet was done by Ubuntu, and there's some things that Ubuntu takes out of GNOME that I noticed in Foresight's unedited version of GNOME that I couldn't see in Ubuntu's GNOME.

GNOME 2.24

The GNOME community hopes to make our users happy with many new features and improvements, as well as the huge number of bug fixes that are shipped in this latest GNOME release. Some highlights of GNOME 2.24 are a better support for instant messaging and for audio/video conferencing, but also the first official release of the GNOME Mobile platform!

Is Open Source Different In Europe Than In the US?

An anonymous reader writes "The first Europe Open Source Think Tank just concluded and Larry Augustin posted some interesting observations on open source in Europe versus the US. Essentially, he says that users in Europe care more about the open source nature of a product than do US users. US users are just trying to save a buck while European users actually care about access to the source code. Do Slashdot readers observe the same thing? Are the reasons for using open source software different in other parts of the world as well?"

Is Smolt the Key to Counting Linux Users?

Icon Smolt is a opt-in hardware profiler developed by Fedora Project and now adopted by OpenSUSE and in consideration by Ubuntu as well. While originally developed for understanding commonly used hardware, InternetNews looks at the potential for Smolt to be a tool to count Linux users. "Smolt could also potentially be a tool for counting the total number of users for a given platform, though that's not its ideal use case. The Linux Foundation's Ts'o noted that Smolt probably wound not be that great for counting Linux users as a whole. Fedora's Frields agreed, noting that Smolt is probably not as good for counting users as it is for counting proportional use of hardware across the user base. 'We prefer to count users with other methods, which we document on our wiki openly and transparently,' Frields said.

When OSS-based Corporations and (some) OSS Hackers Clash

IconA KDE developer tipped me off to a recent thread discussed in the kde-core-devel mailing list regarding interoperability between KDE and Gnome. OSNews featured an interview with the usability experts from Gnome and KDE a few days ago and we expected that the spirit of co-operation would continue to get stronger every day. Luckily this is true regarding most of these developers, but not for all of them are sharing it. Here is a commentary on the issue followed by a summary of the long thread.

Two Arrested In Japan For Illegal Mobile Music Downloading Site

The RIAA’s big concern in the U.S. is PC users, who download music illegally, but apparently the bigger threat in Japan is people who download music to their mobile phone. And therefore, this week, the RIAJ announced that two men from Hyogo, Japan were taken into custody by police for running a mobile music download sites called “Daisan Sekai” ("The Third World"), reports ArsTechnica. The two had had no license to offer their tracks, although its unclear if they were doing it for profit, or merely hosting the download hub. The site attracted more than a million unique users, and the RIAJ considered it “one of the most popular illegal mobile music” sites in the country.

KDE 4.1.2 Released

The KDE Community has announced the immediate availability of "Codename", (a.k.a KDE 4.1.2), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. Codename is a monthly update to KDE 4.1. It ships with a basic desktop and many other packages; like administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, web development tools and more. KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.

GNOME 2.24 Released

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.24, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the day, GNOME 2.24 builds on top of a long series of successful six months releases to offer the best experience to users and developers.

Google, Motorola join GNOME advisory board

The open source GNOME project just scored some major vendor support. Google and Motorola have joined the GNOME Foundation's advisory board and agreed to sponsor the foundation, bolstering the group's free, open source GNOME desktop environment. It's no surprise that Google supports open source projects, but the new, increased support of GNOME by both Google and Motorola is interesting in its implications for Android, Google's Mobile OS.

Sesca Launches iDial Mobile Community for Mobile Phone Users

of customized software for the mobile telecommunications industry, has launched iDial Mobile Community for mobile phone users. Users can download and install a free, mobile-operator independent iDial Mobile application to their compatible mobile handsets from http://www.my.idial.fi website. Users who are registered to the website can create mobile communities and communicate within the community by using iDial Mobile application's rich communications tools.

Camp KDE 2009: Call for Presentations and Sponsorship (KDE.News)

Camp KDE 2009, to be held January 17-23 in Negril, Jamaica, has released it's calls for sponsorship and presentations as described by KDE.news. "

KDE Relaunches Community Forums

KDE users have a new online spot to get together and talk about their favorite desktop environment. The KDE Forum re-launched this week and is already over 17,000 members strong.

Searching for package information on Debian and Ubuntu systems

New Linux users may be content with automatic updates and the package information shown by desktop tools, but more experienced users are generally more cautious and demanding. Experienced users, for instance, may want to assess the risk of an upgrade by studying its dependencies before they begin, or to overcome a package conflict by using versions from an older repository. Because of Debian's long history of providing for advanced users, this sort of information is available from several different sources -- from the apt-cache command, from distribution Web sites, and, in Ubuntu, with the new Ubuntu Simple Package Crawler. Unfortunately, no single source has all the features you are likely to want.

6 Which Has the Best Apps?: KDE vs. GNOME, Part 2

In Part 1 of this article, we looked at the history of GNOME and KDE, their basic features, and their customization options. In part 2, we'll look at the programs designed to run with both desktops, from the administrative tools and utilities, to the office programs and other applications designed to work with them.

Red Hat 8.0 for KDE Users (and Newbies)

IconI know what you're thinking, but don't worry. This article isn't 'Yet Another Red Hat 8.0 Review'. This article is primarily about using Red Hat 8.0 if you happen to be a newbie, but it's also about using Red Hat 8.0 if you happen to be a KDE user. Why? I happen to be a KDE user, so it makes sense I'd focus more on what I know the most about. Plus, I still remember the frustration of staring with something akin to terror at a blank command line with lots of ideas about what I'd like to do and very little knowledge of how to do it.

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