689: First Kontact
18 October 2026
A new documentary reveals KDE's 30-year underdog story. Plasma pioneer Aaron Seigo joins us to look back, and explore what's next with Plasma 6.8.
Guests
Episode Links
- Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
- Jupiter Uplink
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- ConnecTen Internet: promo Jupiter35
- MP3: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?
- YouTube: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?
- Bootleg: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building? | Members Stream
- KDE at 30 - KDE Community
- Plasma 6.8 30th Anniversary Edition - Release Notes — Plasma 6.8 is released on a very special day: KDE’s 30th birthday. Today we celebrate three decades of the KDE community providing the world’s greatest free and open-source software.
- KDE: The Documentary — The Story of Free Software Underdogs
- KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs │ Full Film Coming October 14th
- KDE 4.0 Release Event Keynote - Jan 18, 2008
- Aaron Seigo - GitHub
- ArcGIS for Elixir — Convenient access to Esri ArcGIS APIs for applications written in the Elixir programming language.
- Sparking a Fire | Linux Action Show s20e06 - YouTube — Aaron Siego joins us to talk about the new open source KDE powered tablet that he and his team are working on! Find out how hard you want one, after this week’s episode!
- Culture of Shiny | LINUX Unplugged 25 — Aaron Seigo joins us to call out the new and shiny culture that’s pervasive in the free software community. And even your own humble hosts have been afflicted with from time to time.
- KDE Connect — Enabling all your devices to communicate with each other.
- Local-First Software — Experience apps that work offline, keep your data private, and sync seamlessly across your devices. Your data stays with you, not locked in the cloud.
- jellyProxyKiosk — LCARS Jellyfin info front-end
- Pick: RememberWindowPositions — Remember window positions for apps in KDE Plasma 6+. Especially useful for multi-window applications such as browsers.
- Pick: Konveyor — Konveyor turns Plasma into an endless, scrollable row of windows. Nothing overlaps, nothing gets buried, and the rest of your desktop stays exactly the way you like it.