A few weeks ago, the Kino video editor finally hit 1.0, which is usually a positive milestone that heralds a new era in an application’s development. However, Kino developer Dan Dennedy says that he is done working on Kino’s functionality for at least a year, and work toward another major release will not happen “for at least a year” unless someone else steps up to fork the application. However, Dennedy says he sees good things ahead for kdenlive, a non-linear video editor for KDE.

Source: Kino 1.0 release marks shift into maintenance mode

Some OpenOffice.org macros have rudimentary dialog boxes that allow you to define a few parameters. If you’re ready to take your macro programming skills to a new level, you can learn how to create graphical interfaces for your macros. Once you know…

Source: OOoBasic crash course: Adding GUI goodness

How do Drupal and WordPress, the leading content management systems for blogging, compare for the average user? To find out, Linux.com used a preconfigure Drupal site from Bryght and a free site from WordPress.com to set up two similar sites. We…

Source: Drupal vs. WordPress: Which is better for blogging?

On March 21, KDE e.V, the non-profit organization behind the popular KDE desktop environment, announced its schedule to complete its next version, 4.0. If all goes well, we should see a release of KDE 4.0 this Fall.

Source: KDE publishes v4.0 roll-out schedule