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Qt for MCUs 2.12 LTS Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-mcus-2.12-lts-released

Published: December 15, 2025 06:00

Qt Group is pleased to announce the latest Long Term Supported release of Qt for MCUs 2.12 LTS. As communicated earlier this would be the final release of 2.x series, before we welcome 3.0 in 2026! This release concentrates more on performance and…

KDE PIM 2025 Sprint in Paris

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2025/12/kde-pim-2025-sprint-in-paris.html

Published: December 14, 2025 18:42

This weekend, I attended the KDE PIM 2025 Sprint (AKA meeting) in Paris.First, what does PIM mean? Personal information management.Second, what does Personal information management mean? It's the software for managing email, calendar, address book,…

KDE Gear 25.12 with improved Wayland window activation for Kate & Konsole

https://cullmann.dev/posts/kde-gear-25.12-with-improved-for-wayland-window-activation-for-kate-konsole/

Published: December 13, 2025 15:30

KDE Gear 25.12 got just released. This includes my fixes (or workarounds) for Konsole & Kate window activation on Wayland. If you now start Kate or Konsole inside Konsole, the new processes will properly activate their windows to come on top of Konsole.…

This Week in Plasma: Wayland screen mirroring and custom modes

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/13/this-week-in-plasma-wayland-screen-mirroring-and-custom-modes/

Published: December 13, 2025 00:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the team made significant progress on KWin’s Wayland screen support. Specifically, better mirroring and custom modes — both items on the “Known Significant Issues” page — have been implemented for…

Web Review, Week 2025-50

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2025/12/12/web-review-week-2025-50/

Published: December 12, 2025 17:32

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-50. Commoning open-source versus growth-hacking open-source Tags: tech, foss, licensing, community, commons Nice little post, indeed the license is not enough to base a decision on. You need to look at the…

KDE Ships Frameworks 6.21.0

https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.21.0/

Published: December 12, 2025 00:00

Friday, 12 December 2025 KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.21.0. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. New in this version Baloo…

KDE Ni! OS

https://cukic.co/2025/12/11/kde-ni-os

Published: December 11, 2025 21:00

At this year’s Akademy (the yearly conference and gathering of KDE), there were several talks about immutable Linux distributions born inside KDE. The first, and more covered in the news was KDE Linux, the distro with an officially sounding name. And the…

Setting up distributed compilations with sccache

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/setting-up-distributed-compilations-with-sccache/

Published: December 11, 2025 11:20

I hate waiting for compilations. For day-to-day it may only be a minute or two, but once you start doing another task, the context switching distracts from what you were doing before and breaks everything up. Life is too short to be waiting for computers. …

Qt Creator 18.0.1 released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-18.0.1-released

Published: December 11, 2025 11:06

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 18.0.1! For remote build devices this release fixes a crash when auto-detecting tools, a temporary freeze during startup when a remote CMake tool is not accessible because the device is disconnected, and…

Krita 5.2.14 bugfix release!

https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/krita-5.2.14-released/

Published: December 11, 2025 00:00

Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.14. This is going to be the last bug fix release for 5.2. This release in particular contains many bug and usability fixes for Android. Touch-and-Hold Color Picker The color picker has been improved to make it look, feel and…

30 Reasons I ❤️ KDE Plasma

https://blog.broulik.de/2025/12/30-reasons-i-love-kde-plasma/

Published: December 9, 2025 08:00

KDE’s 30th birthday is coming up next year. For this year’s holiday season I therefore decided to compile a list of 30 reasons why I love KDE Plasma. It makes me so much more productive and work a lot more fun. While some of the items listed below aren’t…

There Is No “Commercial” Open Source – Only Open Source

https://toscalix.com/2025/12/09/there-is-no-commercial-open-source-only-open-source/

Published: December 9, 2025 07:00

Open source already includes commercial use by definition. The label “commercial open source” mixes copyright, licenses and business models, creates confusion, and helps disguise non‑open‑source licenses. If you care about the open source commons, avoid…