aseigo.blogspot: I'm going to attempt to answer as many questions about the Spark tablet as possible here. The questions I'll be answering are ones found in comments in my blog, on discussion sites around the Internet and that came in by email or irc. Let the fun begin!

• Why KDE is the future
• KDE 4.8 minor tweaks, major improvement
• KDE Commit-Digest for 8th January
• What’s new in Gwenview from KDE 4.8
• A look at KDE SC 4.8
• Configuration heaven

• aseigo: The Reveal
• New KDE tablet to liberate Linux enthusiasts from walled garden
• New Open Tablet Will Come with Linux and KDE Preinstalled
• $265 Spark tablet runs Plasma Active Linux software
• 7-inch tablet to come with KDE's Plasma Active interface
• First open tablet released by KDE developer
• Can a $265 Tablet Help Fuel Mobile Open Source Development?

kde.org: KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major updates to KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform. Version 4.8 provides many new features, and improved stability and performance.

datamation.com: For several years, I've been saying that KDE is no longer trying to catch up with Windows, but surpassed it several years ago. However, last week a reader challenged me to prove it.

thepowerbase.com: It’s no secret that KDE is not the most popular desktop environment. In many ways, it’s exotic, having no other desktops environments forked or built from it. It seems to stand alone in excellence.

techradar.com: We rain positivity onto the world's most configurable desktop and pick out some of its best functions and applications...

omgubuntu.co.uk: Running GTK+ applications on the KDE desktop isn’t as brutish-looking as it once was. The following tool was created to offer up greater control over GTK apps running in KDE.

cristalinux.blogspot: Later this month we will see the release of the KDE SC 4.8 series, another one of the typical six-month cycles that KDE relentlesly goes through.

As you might have heard, KDE is, more or less, getting a whole new rewrite again. Some folks may read (or write) that with dread given how the last rewrite went for users there for a while. However, perhaps we should take a look at some of the good things instead. One that's come to light recently is a brand new widgets explorer.

• KDE Font Oxygen ‘Fit for Testing’
• KDE Plasma Desktop Widgets
• KDE Commit-Digest for 25th December
• KDE Commit-Digest for 1st January 2012

datamation.com: No feature defines the KDE 4 release series more than Activities. At the same time, no feature is so little understood. But, when you take the time to learn about Activities, you'll find them a natural extension of the desktop metaphor.

cristalinux.blogspot: KDE SC is great in many, many ways, but I have found that some of those ways are anything but obvious. Users want the quick route to do their thing. In doing so, I overlooked tons of great stuff.

bargincomputing.com: Maximizing the use of screen space on netbook computers is critical, and it really helps when the desktop environment correctly size window to fit the screen. While writing about the KDE, Unity, and Gnome 3 desktops for my Basic Linux course, I made some interesting discoveries.

• Encryption in KDE SC
• KDE Commit-Digest for 18th December 2011
• Thoughts on KDE activities and workspaces
• The Great Features of KDE Workspaces and Applications Part V - Gwenview