Akademy Awards 2009 – Winners Announced
Jul 09, 2009The purpose of the Desktop summit on Gran Canaria is not only to improve cooperation and collaboration between the Gnome and KDE developers. As every year, a select few KDE developers will receive the project specific Akademy Award. We will introduce the winners.
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Jul 08, 2009GNOME developer Thomas Thurman describes the future of the Metacity 2 window manager in a project blog. Apparently a new GNOME component named Mutter will be taking over its functions.
more »Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Akonadi for the Integrated Desktop
Jul 05, 2009The Cross-Desktop Metadata track at this year's Gran Canaria Summit highlighted developer activity targeting central storage of contact data, email and other personal information.
more »Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Better Audio for Free Desktops
Jul 05, 2009On the second day of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Gnome and KDE developers have been focused on topics surrounding meta data, community, and infrastructure. Concerning multimedia, audio support for the open source desktop has proved to be a hot topic.
more »Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: KDE and Gnome Formulate Common Goals
Jul 05, 2009On the first day of the joint developer conference on Gran Canaryia, representatives of the desktop projects Gnome and KDE formulated common goals for their future development.
more »Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Saints, Gentlemen and Schoolchildren
Jul 04, 2009At the start of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit on the Canary Islands, Richard Stallman, Robert Lefkowitz and Walter Bender rallied open source developers in their common tasks.
more »Free Software Projects An up-to-date overview of free software and its makers
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more »Device Tricks Intro Techniques for working with devices in Linux
Jun 30, 2009Linux is getting much better at managing devices, and the versatility of open source software leads to some interesting innovations.
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