KDE hits 30, decides it's time to move out of the X11 era

KDE is marking its 30th birthday by showing X11 sessions the door. The newly released KDE Plasma 6.8 is Wayland-only, though ...
Linux Journal

KDE Plasma 6.8 Marks 30 Years With a Major Shift to Wayland and a More Powerful Linux Desktop

KDE Plasma 6.8 was officially released on October 14, 2026, but availability through Linux distributions depends on their individual packaging and testing schedules. KDE publishes the upstream source ...

Linux and Unix Desktop KDE celebrates 30th birthday

Work on the KDE desktop environment began 30 years ago. The team is celebrating the anniversary with parties, a major ...

KDE Plasma 6.8 offers only Wayland session

The desktop environment KDE Plasma says goodbye to X11 on its 30th KDE birthday, integrates the backup tool Kup, and makes ...
MUO on MSN

KDE Plasma 6.8 finally adds easy backups, so I ran the beta to see if it’s ready

A thirty-year anniversary special.
GamingOnLinux

Plasma 6.8 is out as KDE celebrates 30 years

It's officially KDE's 30th birthday, and with that they've given us a gift with Plasma 6.8 now available. "6.8 is all about ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Fedora KDE made Linux simple in ways Ubuntu couldn't, even though everyone said to start there

It was far more welcoming to me when I was a beginner.
ZDNet

Need a Linux-tuned laptop? New KDE Slimbook aims to make it simpler to drop Windows

KDE community developers and Spanish brand Slimbook have teamed up to launch the 13.3-inch display KDE Slimbook, running the Ubuntu-based KDE neon operating system. The new KDE-branded Slimbook ...