Calamares and Google Summer of Code 2015

KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015, and the KDE Student Programs team has kindly granted Calamares the opportunity to participate under the KDE umbrella.

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual program, first held in 2005, in which Google awards stipends (of US$5,500, as of 2014)...

Written on March 6, 2015
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Manjaro KDE 0.9.0-pre3 edition released

Almost one month passed since our last preview of our next stable release, Manjaro 0.9.0.

With this new release of Plasma 5 providing a visually updated core desktop experience that is easy to use and familiar to the user. Changes under the hood of KDE include the migration to a new, fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack centered around...

Written on March 1, 2015
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Manjaro XFCE 0.9.0-pre3 edition released

Almost one month passed since our last preview of our next stable release, Manjaro 0.9.0. This build ships XFCE most closely to the upcoming 4.12 release.

Thunar file manager finally supports tabs and other cool features like inverting the selection, improves on location handling and the shortcuts side pane. On the panel we have now a...

Written on February 28, 2015
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Manjaro Update 2015-02-26 (stable)

We are happy to announce our third update for Manjaro 0.8.12.

XFCE 4.12 is around the corner. We have it already. We got the latest sources and squeezed them in our repositories.

Thunar file manager finally supports tabs and other cool features like inverting the selection, improves on location handling and the shortcuts side pane. On the panel we...

Written on February 26, 2015
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