On the server and on the desktop, these apps helped showcase what Linux can do.

Turn Excel into a lightweight data-science tool for cleaning datasets, standardizing dates, visualizing clusters, and ...

The KDE community has just published KDE Gear 25.12, the newest quarterly update to its suite of applications. This refresh brings a mix of enhancements, bug fixes, performance refinements, and new ...

Spanish PC company Slimbook has been partnering with the developers of the KDE open source desktop environment to sell KDE Slimbook-branded laptops since 2017. Like every model in the lineup, the new ...

House and Senate members of the General Assembly’s Interim Joint Committee on Education heard from Kentucky’s Auditor of Public Accounts about performance data from a recent Kentucky Department of ...

For most of the last decade, talk about Wayland on KDE sounded like a promise: stronger security, modern graphics, fewer legacy foot‑guns, once the pieces land. With Plasma 6, those pieces finally ...

Why click twice when you can click once? LazyLauncher is a simple GUI and CLI tool for KDE Plasma users to easily create custom KRunner shortcuts without manually editing .desktop files. LazyLauncher/ ...

Another KDE project, Plasma Bigscreen, is back from the dead with a much better UI spread across the entire shell. Lately, some KDE projects have seen a revival, like Karton (the native virtual ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

The KDE team has released the latest issue of This Week in Plasma, and it's packed with goodies. Most of the current effort is focused on polishing Plasma 6.4, as shown by yesterday's Plasma 6.4 Beta ...

If you were to track my history with Linux, you'd find that GNOME-based desktops have dominated. From GNOME 1.x to the current iteration, Pop!_OS (which will soon no longer be based on GNOME), Linux ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...