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Great students, great work done!
During 2 months a couple of students aged between 13 and 17 have been helping to solve KDE tasks during the Google Code-In contest. As last year I did mentor a few of them, 19 to be precise. To give … Continue reading
Get your Christmas presents: Amarok 2.5 and KDE 4.7.4 on Windows!
Our KDE-Windows team has been working silently in the background to present you a whole new experience: You can now use your preferred Desktop experience and Audio player on MS Windows, too! Indeed, Amarok 2.5 is the first stable version we release … Continue reading
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Tagged Amarok, Free Software, KDE, Windows
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When is a bug report useful?
Every now and then we get the same complaints about bug reports again: Either it is a complaint by the user who feels her/his report doesn’t get enough attention from the developers or it is the developers who complain that … Continue reading
Last week in Amarok
The last days working towards a release We plan to release Amarok 2.4 at the end of this week and our developers have concentrated their efforts on fixing release blockers and eventual regressions. A lot of users helped us with … Continue reading
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Tagged Amarok, Bugs, community, documentation, Free Software, KDE
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Podcast: Ian Monroe on KDE Masters of the Universe
Gamaral at Work. Image by Martin Cathrae KDE developer and master conspiracy theorist Gamaral has recorded a new Podcast episode of KDE and the Masters of the Universe. This time, the main guest is Amarok developer Ian “THE BEARD” Monroe, … Continue reading
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Want to test the phonon-vlc backend? Here you go :)
As some of you might have read in Mark Kretschmann’s blog, we now have a fairly good phonon-vlc backend that already works better in many ways than other available backends. It is still in alpha stage, but we would love … Continue reading
Show your Love on Valentine’s Day :)
I usually boycott this marketing day of the flower business, since it is exactly that, a very well orchestrated campaign of the flower producers to guarantee their income in the bad season between Christmas and Mother’s Day, but this year … Continue reading
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In an ideal world…
… every Free Software project should not only have developers, but also graphical artists usability experts user support specialists documentation writers/translators software translators bug triagers marketing ninjas community managers release managers website and wiki maintainers unlimited funds… Amarok is very … Continue reading
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Kubuntu 9.10 is out!
Long awaited, finally here: the brand new Kubuntu 9.10 aka Karmic Koala is out and ready for download. It comes with KDE 4.3.2 and, of course, a brand new Amarok 2.2 🙂 Check out the release notes and download the … Continue reading
Amarok,KDE and Kubuntu at OpenExpo in Winterthur, Switzerland
Another edition of Openexpo in Winterthur is over and I owe you a (not so) short report: Eckhart, Andi and Adriaan held a booth for KDE, Mark and Sven were manning the Amarok one and I tried to be at … Continue reading
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Tagged Amarok, booth, KDE, Kubuntu, Swiss Team, Switzerland
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