There is something interesting going on desktop computers -- the UI is becoming heavily influenced by mobile operating systems. From Windows to Gnome you can see heavy influence of mobile OSes. KDE's Plasma desktop, which I consider to be the most advanced desktop environment is, however, an exception.

Today we are pleased to announce the release of Cnchi v0.10 as the new stable version of our installer. As always, we put great effort into squashing bugs and improving code quality. One other area of focus during this development cycle was making Cnchi more reliable. To that end, Cnchi’s download module received what basically amounts to a total rewrite.

With this release a total of 107 applications have been ported to KDE Frameworks 5. The team is striving to bring the best quality to your desktop and these applications. So we're counting on you to send your feedback. With this release there are several new additions to the KDE Frameworks 5-based applications list, including Dolphin, the Kontact Suite, Ark, Picmi, etc.

A couple of weeks I visited my mother back home in Norway. She had gotten a new laptop some time ago that my brother-in-law had set up for her. As usual when I come for a visit I was asked to look at some technical issues my mother was experiencing with her computer. Anyway, one thing I discovered while looking at these issues was that my brother-in-law had installed OpenOffice on her computer. So knowing that the OpenOffice project is all but dead upstream since IBM pulled their developers...

Linux finally has a another decent racing game. It’s not a traditional racer by any measure, but still good. Performance is top quality too.

OpenSSH 7.0 has just been released. OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support. Before updating and restarting sshd on a remote host, make sure you do not rely on DSA keys for connecting to it.

Join us in celebrating GNOME's birthday this Saturday, August 15th. This is a great chance to tell the world why you love GNOME, inspire others to give it a try, give back to the community, and just wish GNOME a happy birthday.

GOG have officially supported Linux for just over a year, and to mark the occasion they have worked out new official installers for all their Linux games.

The most exciting change in this release is that Git repositories are now used for AUR packages. This new feature comes along with some other nice additions, such as an SSH interface for registered AUR users.

I'd like to draw your attention to a pretty serious bug that is leading to massive amount of crashes for users of Plasma (and other applications using OpenGL), provide a workaround and ask kindly for you to help counteract some of the misdirected bad reputation.

Beyond last week's Debian GNU/Hurd vs. GNU/Linux comparison, another set of updated benchmarks sought by some Phoronix Premium members have been a fresh cross-desktop environment comparison when running various games / OpenGL benchmarks across desktops / window managers.

You won't believe this, but it's already August, so the time has come for the Arch Linux operating system to receive a new installation media that includes all the updates that have been released during the month of July 2015.

Not only have more vendors started to incorporate open source, but there are more vendors rising out of open source.

During Akademy I hold a session about porting applications to Wayland. I collected some of the general problems I saw in various KDE projects and want to highlight them in this blog post, too. Star...

The developers of the lightweight desktop environment Enlightenment (used in various Linux distributions) announced their 0.19.7 release.

Overclocked Raspberry Pi 2 running Arch Linux.

Are you willing to take control of your computer?

I am not Apple's target audience, I like hacking on hardware and software I've been given. However, as a sceptic I owe it to myself to at least give something a shot before I knock it. And I did. I really did. So, what's my opinion on OS X? I can't stand it any more. Get me the **** out of here.

Installation instructions are provided in the announcement