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Celebrating 30 years of KDE at Akademy 2026 (Qt Group Oyj)

Public Technologies 05 Oct 2026
... to Graz for Akademy 2026, KDE's annual summit ... it marked KDE's 30th birthday. Happy birthday, KDE! For three decades, KDE has been the largest open-source community building on Qt.
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KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited

The Register 30 Sep 2026
KDE Plasma 6.8 is nearly here, bringing the revived Oxygen theme and dropping its X11 session. For those who prefer an older look, a new project called Klassik recreates the KDE 3 experience using modern Plasma technology.
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KDE and GNOME Developers Ponder How to Handle AI-Generated Contributions

Slashdot 27 Sep 2026
Last weekend KDE's annual Akademy conference included a presentation proposing an AI-native KDE," writes The Register ... Someone else outside of KDE set up kdeforpeople.com in an attempt to... pressure KDE into banning LLMs.
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Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze

The Register 25 Sep 2026
A proposal to make KDE an "AI-native" desktop has gone down like a house on fire ... There may be no survivors.* Last weekend was KDE's annual Akademy conference and it included a presentation proposing an AI-native KDE.
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As KDE Turns 30, Contributors and Commits are Going Strong

Slashdot 21 Sep 2026
"In a few weeks, KDE will turn 30 years old," writes core contributor Kevin Ottens, celebrating with some special KDE community data analytics (including a 30-year graph of the number of contributors)..
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KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal

The Register 19 Sep 2026
The potentially contentious proposal comes in a Sunday afternoon talk entitled What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE, presented by longtime KDE contributors Eva Brucherseifer and Jan Muehlig.
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Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment

The Register 18 Aug 2026
Announced late last week, the effort aims to provide "at least" three years of backported fixes for KDE Plasma 6.6 and the associated KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear apps ... Although it's far from finished yet, there's now an official KDE Linux distro.
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Is the COSMIC Desktop Getting Better Than KDE and GNOME?

Slashdot 12 Jul 2026
"While KDE and GNOME dominate the landscape, a relative newcomer is starting to make waves with features other desktops still don't fully support," argues XDA Developers. ... and KDE alternatives."].
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KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives

The Register 09 Jul 2026
KDE Plasma 6.6.6 is here, along with a beastly long list of bugfixes, so if you have Plasma 6.6.5 – for instance, if you are using KDE on FreeBSD 15.1 – then it's an update well worth having.
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2 students chosen for KDE's Student Advisory Council

The News-Enterprise 07 Jul 2026
Farrahlauren Terrado and Vivian Fox are among 16 high school students named members to the Kentucky Department of Education’s 2026-27 Commissioner’s Student Advisory Council ... .
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