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Tsiolkovsky

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Big supporter of free (as in freedom) and open source software, open formats/standards and free culture in general. I especially like GNU/Linux and KDE.

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knro.blogspot.si 9y ago

KStars 2.7.0 Released

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blog.martin-graesslin.com 9y ago

Wayland improvements since KDE Plasma 5.8 release

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joinup.ec.europa.eu 9y ago

Netherlands parliament makes open standards mandatory

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www.kde.org 9y ago

KDE Plasma 5.8.1 Released

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www.kde.org 9y ago

KDE Frameworks 5.27 Released

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www.kde.org 9y ago

KDE Plasma 5.8 Is a Long Term Support Release

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lkml.org 9y ago

Linux 4.8 Released

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fsfe.org 9y ago

EU copyright proposal reinforces DRM

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dot.kde.org 9y ago

Announcing the KDE Advisory Board

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lxqt.org 9y ago

LXQt 0.11 Released

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dot.kde.org 9y ago

“20 Years of KDE” book released

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www.recode.net 9y ago

The secret to Silicon Valley’s success is mass delusion

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www.jacobinmag.com 9y ago

Why We Fight Uber

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www.anandtech.com 9y ago

AMD Announces Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 Specifications; Shipping in Early August

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modelviewculture.com 9y ago

Inside the Movement for Silicon Valley’s “Invisible Workforce”

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sfconservancy.org 10y ago

Importance of Following Community-Oriented Principles in GPL Enforcement Work

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newint.org 10y ago

I spy with my little algorithm

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www.kde.org 10y ago

KDE Plasma 5.7.2 Released

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vulkan-tutorial.com 10y ago

Vulkan graphics and compute API tutorial

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www.datamation.com 10y ago

Best Universal Package Manager for Linux

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www.gnu.org 10y ago

RMS: Beware of Contradictory “Support”

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www.kde.org 10y ago

KDE Frameworks 5.24.0 Released

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standardsandfreedom.net 10y ago

Discovering the Kube project – world of email clients is becoming exciting again

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blog.martin-graesslin.com 10y ago

Wayland in KDE Plasma 5.7

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www.kde.org 10y ago

KDE Plasma 5.7.0 Released

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www.esa.int 10y ago

Slovenia Signs Association Agreement with European Space Agency

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www.theguardian.com 10y ago

Beware the ‘empathy-washing’ of self-proclaimed caring capitalists

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www.commondreams.org 10y ago

iCensor: Apple Patents Remote 'Kill Switch' for iPhone Cameras

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www.zdnet.com 10y ago

Hands on with KaOS Linux: Not just another derivative distro

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blog.martin-graesslin.com 10y ago

A task manager for the KDE Plasma Wayland session

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This website has no political affiliation; completely unbiased research. Their conclusion:

"The IP addresses that DHS provided may have been used for an attack by a state actor like Russia. But they don’t appear to provide any association with Russia. They are probably used by a wide range of other malicious actors, especially the 15% of IP addresses that are Tor exit nodes. The malware sample is old, widely used and appears to be Ukrainian. It has no apparent relationship with Russian intelligence and it would be an indicator of compromise for any website."

It is not so simple. Often you like some hardware and want to buy it but you get no option of getting it with GNU/Linux or at least without paying for Windows which you will then replace with GNU/Linux anyways. You can choose other laptops but often they don't offer what you want, hardware wise.

Couldn't agree more about KDE Plasma desktop. I've used most desktops there are and switched to KDE Plasma about a year ago (I used GNOME2 until then, don't like GNOME3 and Unity at all) and boy, KDE Plasma is by far the best desktop I have ever used. Looks great, has awesome usability (once you get used to it) and it is very flexible so you can adapt it almost perfectly to the way you work. Realy awesome.

I switched back to GNU/Linux about 3 years ago when I started noticing and becoming aware of this ugly trend with Apple. I just couldn't live with myself anymore if I didn't also act according to my belief in digital freedom and empowering people. so after some self-questioning I have decided to switch to GNU/Linux and free software.

Yeah that's how I get almost all the software for my GNU/Linux boxen, all from repositories. And if I'm hacking on something just pull it out from Git or BZR or SVN or similar. Many projects also left SF since they started with changes that made it a bit of pain to use.

Currently my main OS is Gentoo Linux, I also have Mandriva Linux and openSUSE Linux on desktops. On laptop I also have PC-BSD. All of them with KDE Plasma desktop of course :) I also used to have OpenSolaris but I'm waiting now what will happen with the projects that came after Oracle made Solaris un-free again.

Well I find code completion and code navigation much better in KDevelop 4, it really has some excellent code parsing and insight. So that's what I use as my general C++ IDE. But when some more insight and support for Qt is needed I guess Qt Creator still beats it. Not to mention the new Qt Quick support and nice quick deployment on mobile devices.

This is just not enough, Far from it, It would also have to be free to implement without any restrictions and it should be free as in freedom, like Ogg Theora and WebM are.This is just MPEG-LA mafia being scared because they will not be able to extort money when they want to. The best for free and independent web and video is if this MPEG-LA shit dies as soon as possible.