Talking about how for the KDE team has gone with the building of the so-called KDE4: Plasma, here comes a video by Aaron Seigo (People Behind KDE) on the final stages leading to the KDE 4.0 release.
A preview of Containments in Plasma, and other status updates, by Aaron Seigo.
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The KDE team happily announces the release of the first KDE 4.0 Release Candidate. The release note says that the majority of the components of the KDE 4.0 are approaching release quality but the Plasma brand is still under construction.
The KDE team released two Live CDs of the Release Candidate 1; the openSUSE KDE 4 Live CD and the Debian KDE Beta 4 Live CD. These two Live CDs are installable on openSUSE and Kubuntu distributions. Source code is available for compiling on other distributions. The KDE Team counts on the community for testing and to eventually report bugs before the final release of KDE 4.0 in December.
On the other hand, the KDE team releases the final version of the KDE Development Platform, which provides the needed libraries and applications the KDE Desktop is based on.
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Tracker is an efficient, lightweight, search tool and indexer. It trawls through your hard drive to index existing files and data stores so that they could easily be found.
Tracker is an object database, these objects can also have extensible user defined metadata and tags to create rich first class objects.
Tracker does on your disk what Google does on Internet. To find a file it is enough to remember the something the file’s metadata contains. More»
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GeoGebra is a cross-platform, Open Source application written in Java, that puts together algebra, geometry and calculus. Created by Markus Hohenwarter of the Florclassa Atlantic University, it has received many international awards including the European and German educational software awards.
GeoGebra shows the relationship between geometry and algebra and how one can constructs with points, vectors, segments, lines, conic sections as well as functions and change them dynamically afterwards. More»
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The version 1.0 of the application formerly know as Democracy player has been released. The new-born, bug fixed Miro is an improved open source video player that sets as its major objective – be better to Joost.
Miro is DRM-free and friendly to all content creators. It connects to all the popular video sharing sites like YouTube and blip.tv and has high definitions, full of content video.
Miro could be used to search and download video from the internet regardless of whether they are professionally produced or user-generated. It downloads via HTTP or BitTorrent. If you are rather interested in streaming video, it converts into download streaming video from sites like Youtube and DailyMotion. More»
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