As promised, here I’m going to take a look at the new ‘KDE 4 Remix’ version of Kubuntu.

For the uninitiated, let me explain. The latest version of the KDE variant of Ubuntu, has two versions - the standard disc featuring KDE 3.5.9, and this KDE 4 Remix disc, which features the new KDE 4.0 release.

In this review, I’m going to focus on this distro from the user’s perspective. There’s plenty of cool stuff under the hood of KDE 4, but here, I’ll focus on what you can actually see and play with, as that’s what will probably sway people to using this release or the official one.

So, without further ado, let’s load up the KDE 4 Remix disc.

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Keeping organised can be tough sometimes and there are lots of different applications and tools designed to help you get organised.

Tasque is designed to be a very simple todo list application, designed specifically to link in with popular online todo service Remember The Milk.

It is written in C#/Mono, so you will need all the relevant Mono gubbins already installed to get it up and running. Here on Fedora 8, there isn’t a package yet, so I’ll run you through how to install it from source.

First of all, head to the Tasque download page and download the archive in whichever format you want. Once you’ve got it, extract it somewhere, then open a terminal in that directory.

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Manslide is Qt-based application for making slideshows out of a set of images on Linux.

You’re unlikely to find it in any package manager right now, so you’ll need to download the binary package, extract it and then run ./Manslide.

The first time you launch it, the introduction screen will be in French.

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