Plasma Bigscreen is a software project from
KDE
KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that allow collaborative work on this kind of software. Well-known products include the ...
which contains an interface optimized for
Smart TVs and other computers such as the
Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi () is a series of small single-board computers (SBCs) developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in association with Broadcom. The Raspberry Pi project originally leaned towards the promotion of teaching basic ...
which can be connected to large displays.
Software
The desktop environment is based on
KDE Plasma 5
KDE Plasma 5 is the fifth and current generation of the graphical workspaces environment created by KDE primarily for Linux systems. KDE Plasma 5 is the successor of KDE Plasma 4 and was first released on 15 July 2014.
It includes a new default ...
. Voice control is provided through integration with
Mycroft AI. Plasma Bigscreen supports
HDMI-CEC
Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) is a feature of HDMI designed to control HDMI connected devices by using only one remote control, remote controller; so, individual CEC enabled devices can command and control each other without user intervention, ...
.
Availability
Plasma Bigscreen is currently available as a
KDE Neon
KDE neon is a Linux distribution developed by KDE based on Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, bundled with a set of additional software repositories containing the latest versions of the Plasma 5 desktop environment/framework, Qt 5 toolkit ...
-based image, or installable on
postmarketOS
postmarketOS (abbreviated as pmOS) is an operating system primarily for smartphones, based on the Alpine Linux distribution.
postmarketOS was launched on 26 May 2017 with the source code available on GitHub before migrating to GitLab in 2018. I ...
.
See also
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Plasma Mobile
Plasma Mobile is a Plasma variant for smartphones. It is currently available for the Pinephone, and supported devices for postmarketOS such as the OnePlus 6.
It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manjaro.
Hi ...
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Mycroft (software)
Mycroft is a free and open-source software virtual assistant that uses a natural language user interface. Its code was formerly copyleft, but is now under a permissive license. It is named after a fictional computer from 1966 science fiction no ...
References
External links
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Free and open-source software
KDE Plasma
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