The Plasma Media Center, built on KDE, offers a “rich experience” in its first release as a competitor to many other open source HTPC offerings

The second beta of the next GNOME Shell’s development has been released slightly late, and is now available for testing

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The KDE 4.10 Software Compilation to be more exact, which includes the new versions of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform

The final KDE 4.10 release candidate is now out, with features for the final release including faster indexing, better notifications, and Qt Quick

Mageia 3, the next version of the popular new distribution, is in its final Alpha stages, with updates to the installer and kernel

Don’t you trust the websites you’re visiting? Thanks to Qubes, you can visit them in disposable virtual machines and isolate many other applications from each other

The Common Desktop Environment is now open source, and Michael Reed explores what this means for CDE in a world dominated by other desktops

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