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KDE Releases Improved Desktop and Applications Dedicated to Uwe Thiem

July 29, 2008. The KDE Community today released KDE 4.1.0. This release is the second feature release of the KDE 4 series, sporting new applications and newly developed features on top of the Pillars of KDE4. KDE 4.1 is the first KDE4 release to contain the Personal Information Management suite KDE-PIM with its E-Mail client KMail, the planner KOrganizer, Akregator, the RSS feed reader, KNode, the newsgroup reader and many more components integrated into the Kontact shell. Furthermore, the new desktop shell Plasma, introduced in KDE 4.0, has matured to the point where it can replace the KDE 3 shell for most casual users. Like with our previous release much time has been devoted to improving the framework and underlying libraries on which KDE is built. Continue Reading >>

June 4, 2008 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.5, the fifth bugfix and maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.0.5 is the fourth monthly update to KDE 4.0. 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 49 languages.

Can’t wait they get to be available in the repository .. . Continue Reading »

People who wants to learn and speak foreign language fluently might need dictionary. But carry it everywhere is not just being annoyed (even in small one) and extends our list-that-must-be carry on, it also has limited words and its translatins. Because the more words to be translated and its translations to be added, the more papers must be filled, and the more burden you have taken.

For that problem, the electronic dictionary makes good solution. Once you install it in your laptop (or even in your sweety IPhone), you can translate many words and find another meaning (depends on how many dictionary you have installed) from another different dictionaries. Continue Reading »

I do like this gray desktop, the image suits the Plasma Toolbox (upper right corner of the screen) in this KDE 4.0.4 desktop. Its color makes my eyes feel very comfortable, It’ll cause me watching the screen longer than usual. Do you think it’s the most comfortable color for human’s eyes.. Right?

After knowing this news, I immediatly took YaST to update all KDE4 packages yesterday. Now, I’m going to mention how to do that in easy (GUI) way, how to install or update KDE 4 to your openSUSE machine (I’m recenty using openSUSE 10.3 right now and used in this whole tutorial). I assume You have installed KDE 4.0 before following this tutorial, see this to install KDE 4.0 in your openSUSE machine.

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You have to choose what tool that will manage all the software packages in your system, I choose YaST Software Management to do that in this (easy) tutorial. Continue Reading »