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Hi, I have a Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 3.5.9 on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi1546 (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, 2GB Ram, ATI Mobility Radeon X1800). It was a clean install not an upgrade from Gutsy if it has any meaning. My problem is that I can't increase the number of virtual desktops from 2 (default) to 4 so that I can enjoy the compiz cube.... Every time I try to increase the desktops when I press the Apply button it goes back to 2 desktops again! I think it might be a bug, or I am very stupid. P ...
KDE at LinuxTag 2008 KDE is attending this year's <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/home/welcome.html">LinuxTag in Berlin</a> with <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/conf.html">a wide selection of talks</a>. Starting ...
KDE.org.pl Website Celebrates First Birthday It has been a year since launching our <a href="http://kde.org.pl">KDE.org.pl</a> site, which has an aspiration to be a real "gate to the world of KDE" in Poland. During the last months, our site received 220 pages and ...
Bug Day 4 - Sunday 18th May 2008 <a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad/BugDays/KonquerorDay4">Bug Day 4</a> will take place on Sunday 18th May from 0:00 UTC - 23:59 UTC. (That's a start time of 02:00 CEST, or 17:00 PDT Saturday). For this Bug Day, we ...
Fedora 9 Released with KDE 4.0.3 The <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora Project</a> has <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-May/msg00007.html">announced the release of Fedora 9</a>, codenamed ...
Akademy 2008 Embedded and Mobile Day - Call for Participation <a href=http://emsys.denayer.wenk.be>The EmSys research group</a> is hosting an "Embedded and Mobile Day" at Akademy 2008, this year in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium at <a href=http://www.denayer.wenk.be/index_eng.htm>Campus ...
KOffice 2.0 Alpha 7 Released The <a href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE Project</a> today announced the release of <a href="http://www.koffice.org/releases/2.0alpha7-release.php">KOffice version 2.0 Alpha 7</a>, a technology preview of the ...
KDE 4.0.4 Out Now, Codenamed File-Not-Found Another month, another update to the KDE 4.0 series. This time, we are <a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0.4.php">presenting KDE 4.0.4</a>, dubbed <i>File-Not-Found</i> to the audience. KDE 4.0.4 ...
Qt 4.4 Released Trolltech have <a href="http://trolltech.com/products/qt/learnmore/whats-new">released Qt 4.4</a>. This is a major release with many new features including WebKit, KDE's Phonon, Concurrency, Widgets on the Canvas and XQuery. This ...
People Behind KDE: Jeremy Paul Whiting In a new series of <a href="http://behindkde.org/">People Behind KDE</a> interviews, we visit the United States of America to meet a KDE developer with an affinity for education, accessibility, and Asian culture, a person who works ...
Deadline for Akademy 2008 Presentation Proposals Extended The programme committee of the Akademy 2008 KDE contributor's conference would
like to thank everybody who already has submitted a proposal for a
presentation at Akademy 2008. The conference programme is beggining to gain shape. Due to popular request ...
OpenSuse Joins Google Summer of Code <b>vnunet:</b> "The Novell sponsored openSuse project has announced that it has 10 projects being funded through Google's Summer of Code 2008..."
Dreamy Dreamlinux <b>Linux.com:</b> "Dreamlinux is a Debian-based distribution that offers you a choice of GNOME or Xfce window managers as well as an extremely simple installation and scripts to install popular programs not found in the Debian ...
What Open Source Teaches Publishers <b>ZDNet:</b> "The traditional media business model was fairly straightforward. You invested in a budget, you sold ads against it, and over, say five years, you built the business by selling more than you spent..."
rPath Linux 2 Available <b>Conary News:</b> "rPath is pleased to announce that rPath Linux 2 is now available and recommended for general use as an appliance platform..."
Alfresco's Latest ECM: Prying Open a Sector? <b>internetnews.com:</b> "John Newton, the chairman and CTO at open source document management firm Alfresco, is no stranger to Enterprise Content Management..."
Please Welcome Digistan <b>ConsortiumInfo:</b> "On Wednesday, I introduced The Hague Declaration to those that visit this blog, promising to write again shortly to introduce the new organization that created the Declaration..."
Ubuntu's Pipe Dream: True Free Software Syncronicity <b>internetnews.com:</b> "While I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Shuttleworth and what he has accomplished in his life, I don't think distribution syncronicity is something that will ever happen--nor should it..."
Slashdot An editor for the Telegraph, Roger Highfield, recently volunteered to allow a UK researcher to shut off the speech center of his brain with a high-powered magnetic pulse. Regular speech is controlled by a section of the brain called Broca's area. Once ...
Dragon vs. Hydra - Competing Development Styles peterofoz writes "You may recall that we discussed a company which was recruiting talent with a puzzle last December. This turned out to be n-Brain releasing a new product that allows multiple editors to modify the same code in real time to support the ...
Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop" Jeremy LaCroix suggests in an editorial at Linux.com that the phrase "ready for the desktop" is ready for retirement. As anyone who's been using Linux for several years (or even a few) for everyday tasks knows, "ready for the desktop" is in the eye of ...
20% of U.S. Population Has Never Used Email Ezratrumpet writes "A recent PC World article notes that 20 percent of the U.S. population has never sent an email. Does this number over- or underestimate the actual number of people who know nothing of email? What are the implications of this statistic ...
Surgical Robot Removes Calgary Woman's Brain Tumor Raver32 points out an article in the Victoria Times Colonist about an interesting advance in robotic surgery: "Calgary doctors have made surgical history, using a robot to remove a brain tumour from a 21-year-old woman. Doctors used remote controls and ...
Dag Wieers Scoffs at Coordinated Linux Release Proposal Nic Doye writes "Dag Wieers responds to Mark Shuttleworth's recent request to ask major Enterprise Linux distributions to synchronise releases, claiming that it 'is no more than a wish to benefit from a lot of work that Novell and Red Hat are already ...
Survivor Buddy, a Friendly Robot Rescuer Roland Piquepaille writes "The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida (USF), 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As ...
Canadian ISP Ordered to Prove Traffic-Shaping is Needed Sepiraph writes "In a letter sent to the Canadian Association of Internet Providers and Bell Canada on May 15, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) have ordered Bell Canada to provide tangible evidence that its broadband ...
Most Business-Launched Virtual Worlds Fail bughunter writes "Internet consultant firm Gartner claims that only 1 in 10 commercial virtual worlds succeeds, and most fail within 18 months: 'Businesses have learned some hard lessons," Gartner analyst Steve Prentice said in a statement released ...
Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices Stating the obvious: "Two scientists write that obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass -- and require increased quantities ...
