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When you sit down to put together a blog post, the last thing you want getting in your way is a finicky blogging client. This week, we'll take a look at open source blogging software designed for the Linux operating system, as well as apps created specifically for the KDE and GNOME desktop. In fact, let's get started with KDE first.

Bilbo Blogger - The developers created this client with a single purpose in mind: simplicity. It's a full-featured WYSIWYG and HTML editor that supports Blogger, Movable Type, and other popular blogging platforms. Use it to create, modify, edit, and pre-schedule posts or simply rely on it to fetch blog entries for local storage. Have a look at this post for some great installation tips and tricks to get you started.

When you're working with a commercial software company, it's easy to keep up with their latest news: Between the company's Web sites, e-mail newsletters, conferences, and (increasingly) blogs, you can find out what is happening, and prepare yourself accordingly. Life in the open-source world is quite a bit messier, of course, in that there often isn't any central location or source for news. One of the key tools that the open-source community uses to keep in touch is blogs -- but it's not always easy to find all of the blogs on the subjects that interest you. That's where blog planets come in, providing a one-stop aggregation of many blogs on a particular subject.