Remember that Spark tablet that is to run KDE for the interface? Well, Aaron Seigo today announced "an adjustment in our naming scheme."

A new little tablet PC has been making a bit of a stir around Linuxville the last couple of weeks. The Spark tablet, featuring Mer OS and the KDE Plasma Active desktop, was introduced on January 28 by the face of KDE, Aaron Seigo. Today, Seigo revealed the new registration Website and procedure.

Datamation is out with an interesting question: "Do Novelty Desktops Threaten Linux Adoption?" If you follow the evolution of Linux at all, you can hardly have missed the fine-tuning of customized desktop environments that has gone on for the past several years. We've widely covered the polarization in the user community that Ubuntu's Unity interface has produced. Meanwhile, desktop environments such as KDE and GNOME have also polarized many users in their most recent versions. Still, fragmentation of the desktop environment is part of the natural evolution of Linux, and it's also a key advantage the platform has over Windows and the Mac OS.