As the title of this article says, Canonical has decided to pull the funding for Kubuntu – the KDE sister distribution of Ubuntu. This news was announced by Jonathan Ridell, the lead and only paid developer of Kubuntu. This is what Riddell wrote announcing the news: Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will…

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Users of Ubuntu/Kubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” will be glad to know that KDE SC 4.7 is now available for upgrade. Unfortunately, it is not available for the earlier versions of Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

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Last month we told you about the availability of KDE 4.7 Release Candidate which had some new features such as Grub integration with KDM, improved support for KWin on Mobile and other important performance improvements. The KDE team has now announced the availability of the final version of KDE 4.7. From the release announcement KDE…

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KDE SC has been using the name “System Settings” to refer to its application used to configure the system – such as time, font, theme etc. Now, a conflict has arisen because GNOME, too. has started using the same name – System Settings – for its application which was earlier known as the GNOME Control Center.

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KDE 4.7 is almost here and brings along with it a number of features and performance improvements such as a better Dolphin with a faster file search, ability of KWin to run on Mobile devices, Grub2 integration in KDM and offline search support in the KDE virtual globe – Marble.

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The final release of KDE SC 4.6 was made available a few days ago. KDE SC 4.6 includes UPower, UDev and UDisks backends and does not require HAL anymore. The new bluetooth framework BlueDevil has also been included. KDE SC 4.6 has also added a lot of new features which makes it a lot more…

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Amarok is my favorite music player and yesterday, it just got a lot better. The first beta of Amarok 2.4, codenamed “Closer” was released yesterday. It has a number of improvements and bugfixes. It is also available for Kubuntu 10.10 and 11.04. Of all the new features in this release, the one I like most…

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Choqok is a KDE microblogging client. It supports a number of microblogging sites like Twitter, StatusNet (which powers Identi.ca) and, with the new release, Open Collaboration Services. In my opinion, it is the best Twitter clients available for Linux – its far better than Gwibber. The first release candidate of Choqok 1.0, codenamed “Huma” has…

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The first beta of KDE Software Compilation 4.6 was released almost a week ago. Now it is available for Kubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat”. It is available in the Kubuntu Beta PPA and if you want to test it, open the Konsole and execute the following commands:

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