KDE Announces Partner Network

jrepin writes "In the wake of the announcement of the first ever KDE powered tablet, quite a few interesting things are happening in the background. One of them is the formation of a professional Partner Network for devices such as the Vivaldi tablet. The Make Play Live Partner Program is designed to build and support a collaborative business and economic network. Members work together to provide comprehensive professional service and product offerings around Plasma Active and devices such as Vivaldi. Professional support options make it easier to convince potential parties, such as users, clients, customers and partners, bringing KDE software to a larger group of users. Nine organizations have already joined."

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ZaReason please join

[mehemiah]

I want the ZaTab to run PlasmaActive not android!

Vapor Tablet

[scorp1us]

January 29 The Spark Tablet was announced (later renamed to Vivaldi). Two months it was supposed to be on the market. Now, it's 2 months after that and it still isn't shipping...

I want the tablet, but hell if I know when I'll be able to buy one.

Re:Vapor Tablet

[Dcnjoe60]

January 29 The Spark Tablet was announced (later renamed to Vivaldi). Two months it was supposed to be on the market. Now, it's 2 months after that and it still isn't shipping...

I want the tablet, but hell if I know when I'll be able to buy one.

The initial run was sold out, so if you didn't reserve one, you will have to wait for the 2nd run. The good news is that the extra delay allowed them to upgrade the specs on the tablet. If you are really desperate, you can purchase the Zethinks C71 which is the original Vivaldi spec'd tablet and install the plasma active image on it. The Vivaldi cost slightly more, but makes a contribution to KDE, so if you go the Zethinks route, you could also make a contribution to keep all things equal.

Re:Vapor Tablet

[Patch86]

I've replied to one of your other posts already, but I'll dig you out the info for your convenience:

        7 inch multi-touch capacitive screen (800x480)
        1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor with Mali 400 GPU
        1GB DDR2 RAM
        8 GB Nand Flash Disk
        Wireless Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g (3G via USB External)
        1.3 MP built-in front facing camera
        HDMI 1080P Output
        2 USB ports
        MicroSD slot
        3.5 mm audio jack
        Hardware volume and power buttons
        4 dimensional Gsensor
        Battery: 3000mAH @ 7.4v
        Weight: 355 grams

Re:What is KDE?

[stoolpigeon]

The first sentence seems pretty clear to me - it's a free software community. The section on organization says, "The financial and legal matters of KDE are handled by KDE e.V., which is a German non-profit organization, and help organizing the conferences and meetings of the community members." which also seems pretty clear.

And there's more. There is a lot to the article but it doesn't seem too confusing to me.

I'm a big KDE fan. I think they provide the best graphical desktop for linux, one of the better music players on any platform and I am a big fan of QT - specifically via PyQT and now PySide. I'm all for anything that keeps it all going.

Re:What is KDE?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wrong place. KDE is Desktop Environment - same software category as LXDE, Gnome, etc
For information goto http://www.kde.org

KDE is a free software community, KDE Plasma Desktop is the desktop environment. It even says this on http://www.kde.org

Re:Mail client?

[Tough Love]

Is Kmail1 still being developed? I loved classic Kmail but I've been limping along for months with the badly broken Akonadi based Kmail I got whacked with in a surprise Kubuntu release, long before it was ready. I somehow coaxed it into a minimally tolerable state. It doesn't mean I'm happy.

On the bright side, at least it forced me to learn about Postgres to get rid of the absolutely horrid MySQL backend. All it needs now is a 100 less bugs and 100 times better performance.