When we first saw it demoed on Linux netbooks in 2009, KDE Plasma was looking good. It brought a little sizzle to the desktop which was somewhat lacking in the Ubuntu Netbook Remix at the time. Now, the KDE team is looking to move beyond desktops and notebooks — and it hopes to deliver an exciting, adaptable Plasma experience for…

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The KDE Plasma interface certainly looks good, and it’s a good fit on netbook screens. And MeeGo runs on netbooks…So why not throw the two of them in a blender and see what comes out? That’s what one enthusiast has done, and he’s shared his triumph on YouTube for all to see (check out the video after the break). The…

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At times I’ve felt like KDE 4 is a little bit on the sluggish side on my desktop PCs. On a netbook’s Atom processor? I wouldn’t even have considered switching from Gnome if I hadn’t seen this video on YouTube. We’ve known the Plasma interface was coming for quite some time, and it finally made its debut in Kubuntu 9.10. After…

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[/caption] Some of the folks behind the KDE Linux desktop environment are putting their heads together and trying to come up with a new interface designed especially for netbooks. The goal is to have something ready to go by the time KDE 4.4 is released (The latest version of KDE is KDE 4.2.2). According to developer Aaron Seigo, here are…

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