Plasma Bigscreen was 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 enable collaborative work on its projects. Its products include the KDE Plasma gra ...
which contained 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 collaboration with Broadcom Inc., Broadcom. To commercialize the product and support its growing demand, the ...
which can be connected to large displays.
Software
The desktop environment was based on
KDE Plasma 5
KDE Plasma 5 is the fifth generation of the KDE Plasma 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 was succeeded by KDE Pl ...
. Voice control was provided through integration with
Mycroft AI. Plasma Bigscreen supported
HDMI-CEC
Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) is a feature of HDMI designed to control HDMI connected devices by using only one remote controller; individual CEC enabled devices can command and control each other without user intervention, for up to 15 device ...
.
Availability
Plasma Bigscreen was available as a
KDE Neon-based image, or was 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. ...
. It is currently not available due to being unmaintained for too long.
See also
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Plasma Mobile
Plasma Mobile is a KDE Plasma, 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 Manj ...
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Mycroft (software)
Mycroft was 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 was named after a fictional computer from the 1966 science fic ...
References
External links
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Free and open-source software
KDE Plasma
Television operating systems
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