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How Marco Martin and Nuno Pinheiro blogged this morning, the new Plasma theme for KDE 4.3, Air, is now available in SVN.

Plasma Theme Air: Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty + KDE 4.2 Beta 2 + Air

I have installed KDE 4.3 beta 2 and I can't wait for KDE 4.3 RC, so I have installed Air into my userspace.

Today and tomorrow Kubuntu-org has some talks about Kubuntu-de.org and Kubuntu at #kubuntu-de.org on irc.freenode.net at 17:00 UTC. We called it Kubuntu-de.org Informationstage (Informationdays). This is an event, where you can learn about the project kubuntu-de.org (the German speaking Kubuntu community). You can also learn, how to easily help Kubuntu, by learning submitting good bug-reports on launchpad, triaging bugs, and taking part in the famous kubuntu-de.org 5-a-day bugchasing team.

When you are interested, please come today und tomorrow into #kubuntu-de.org on irc.freenode.net at 19:00 (local time). An IRC webclient ist also available.

From May 28 - 31, 2008 the LinuxTag, Europe's leading exhibition on Linux and Open Source, takes place at Berlin's "Messezentrum unter dem Funkturm". Like the last year, there will be Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu with community boothes and some talks available. Ubuntu-Berlin arrange on May 31th, 2008 an Ubuntu-Grill after LinuxTag is closed.

Ubuntu boothes:
Ubuntu and Edubuntu has a combined booth. Kubuntu(-de.org) shared a booth with Amarok opposite the Ubuntu booth.

Jos Poortvliet present some movies, which show some new features in KDE 4.1, especially in Plasma, Kwin, Dolphin, Gweniview and some other applications. This movies show imposingly the proceedings of KDE 4.1

new Plasma features
      
watch this movie on Youtube

The Amarok project announce a new nightly build service, named Neon, for Amarok2 packages, which makes Amarok2 SVN available for everyone. The initiator of this project is Harald Sitter, also known as Apachelogger. At this time there are only packages for Kubuntu available, but hopefully other distributions will launch this project.

Neon Logo

Note: Amarok2 is still alpha software and includes some bugs. Data will by safed in ~/amarok-nightly, so you can use Amarok1 and Amarok2 side by side. You can start Amarok2 from your menu or by typing "amarok-nightly" from konsole.

With every new KDE4 release (current KDE 4.1 alpha1), there will be a lot of controversy at news pages here in germany about the Release Schedule. I think in other countries it's the same. A lot of peoples doesn't understand that KDE 4.0 is an important release and KDE goes the right way. KDE 4.0 is not designed for endusers, but it is a kool base for beginn to port KDE3 applications to KDE4 or build new KDE4 applications.

That's allways known but what are the effects of this Schedule? What is done since the KDE 4.0 release in january until now?

Today a co-worker called me. He has bought a new notebook and he has only a blinking Screen. It's time for troubleshooting.

1. boot sequence: all right but it's still blinking.
2. What appears on the CD cover? Driver and Utility CD.

STOP

Since the begiining of this year our old webhoster blocked each search engine, because our load is to high for shared hosting. We lost more than 80% of visitors. Bang on time for the release of Hardy we switched to our own server and I can tell you:

We are back in google and each other search engineextract from Google Webmastertools

It will take a few days until we are i completely indicate again, but the beginning is done.

A specifically thank to the Canonical Sysadmins, who change our dns entries just in time.