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Flatpaks and Kubuntu

On February 26, 2023, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With No Comments

Kubuntu is and has always been “Ubuntu” combined with the greatest software from the KDE Community. Prior to 23.04 and aligned with Debian packaging, Flatpak and Snap package sources were included as installable options with each source requiring its own set of commands and repositories. However, enabling both sources caused…

Kubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Update Available

On February 24, 2023, Posted by , In News, With No Comments

The second point release update to Kubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) is out now. This contains all the bug-fixes added to 22.04 since its first point release in August 2022. Users of 22.04 can run the normal update procedure to get these bug-fixes. Kubuntu Manual 22.04.2 should be out next…

Plasma 5.27 Beta available for testing

On January 21, 2023, Posted by , In News, With No Comments

Are you using Kubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu, our current stable release? Or are you already running our development builds of the upcoming 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)? We currently have Plasma 5.25.90 (Plasma 5.27 Beta) available in our Beta PPA for Kubuntu 22.10 and for the 23.04 development series. However this is…

Kubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu Released

On October 20, 2022, Posted by , In News, With No Comments

The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 22.10 has been released, featuring the ‘beautiful’ KDE Plasma 5.25 simple by default, powerful when needed. Codenamed “Kinetic Kudu”, Kubuntu 22.10 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality,…

Kubuntu Kinetic Kudu (22.10) Beta Released

On September 30, 2022, Posted by , In News, With No Comments

The beta of Kubuntu Kinetic Kudu (to become 22.10 in October) has now been released, and is available for download. This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours. Pre-releases of Kubuntu Kinetic Kudu are not recommended for: Anyone needing a stable system Regular users who are not aware…

Plasma 5.26 Beta available for testing

On September 19, 2022, Posted by , In News, With No Comments

Are you using Kubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish, our current stable LTS release? Or are you already running our development builds of the upcoming 22.10 Kinetic Kudu? We currently have Plasma 5.25.90 (Plasma 5.26 Beta) available in our Beta PPA for Kubuntu 22.04 and for the 22.10 development series. However this…

Kubuntu 20.04.5 LTS Update Available

On September 2, 2022, Posted by , In News, By , With No Comments

The fifth point release update to Kubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) is out now. This contains all the bug-fixes added to 20.04 since its first release in April 2020. Users of 20.04 can run the normal update procedure to get these bug-fixes. See the Ubuntu 20.04.5 Release Notes and the…

Kubuntu Focus announce New NX Desktop

On August 30, 2022, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With No Comments

Kubuntu Focus team announces their latest system: The Focus NX small form factor desktop. This is their third model optimized for Kubuntu 22.04 LTS and the KDE Plasma interface. The Kubuntu Focus NX can be ordered with either the i5-1135G7 or i7-1165G7 11th generation Intel® CPU. Both are fast and power-efficient. They also…

Kubuntu Council Elects 3 Councillors

On August 30, 2022, Posted by , In News, With No Comments

Members of the Kubuntu Council are responsible for considering proposals made by the wider Kubuntu community. The council formalises and ratifies proposals, then votes to obtain an outcome which directs the course of progress for Kubuntu. On 11 September I (Rick Timmis) will have been a councilor for the Kubuntu…

Plasma 5.25 for Jammy 22.04 available via PPA

On August 25, 2022, Posted by , In News, With No Comments

We have had many requests to make Plasma 5.25 available in our backports PPA for Jammy Jellyfish 22.04. Providing backports of new Plasma versions to a LTS release always must be an ‘opt-in’ process, however we are aware that many of our users now are accustomed to adding our backports…