Packages for the release of KDE’s desktop suite Plasma 5.5.3 and KDE’s Frameworks 5.18.0 are available for Kubuntu 15.10. You can get them from the Kubuntu Backports PPA.

Bugs in the packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE.

To update, use the Software Repository Guide to add the following repository to your software sources list:

Special thanks to the Kubuntu team for packaging this update and to all testers who helped out on #kubuntu-devel IRC channel.

This release has been ported for some time now, but we delayed the announcement as there were some initial problems we had to tackle.

The team

Andrea Del Sarto ( Audio Podcast Production )

• blog: https://delsalife.wordpress.com/
• G+ : https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AndreaDelSarto88/

Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan (Show Host)

• blog: http://ovidiu.geekaliens.com

Rick Timmis (Show Host)

• G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RickTimmis
• Blog: http://sickrimmit.blogspot.co.uk/

Aaron Honeycutt (Show Host)

• blog: http://usefoss.com/

Kubuntu News

• http://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-4-3-and-applications-15-08-3-for-kubuntu-15-10/
• New Audio producer
• Plasma 5.5 is on the way, we’re reorganizing some packaging infrastructure
• Site is still maintained, not much news because of the low manpower and the packaging reorganization
• Kubuntu Council & Ubuntu Community Council Feb 11th @ 17:00 UTC on Google+

In Focus

• Packaging? https://notes.kde.org/p/kubuntu-packaging
• We’re working on streamlining the packaging process

Feedback

From: Martin Der

“Hello guys! I´m a long time user of KDE and really happy about your podcast! Keep up the good work!

I would really like to hear about your opinion on a question I have (maybe on the next show?)

I know about programing but mostly for scientific applications (matlab and a bit of python). Now I would like to get a bit into GUIs and apps. Most info I found says the easiest way to get started would be in pyQt…. I really would like to keep it open source and if possible cross-platform.

Do you agree? What are the most common/your favourite IDE’s for programming in pyQt on Kubuntu?”

Our reply (in short, besides what we said in the show): We think you should look into QT, QML, QT Creator and Kalgebra.

Outro

How to find the Kubuntu Team:

• Website: https://kubuntu.org
• IRC: irc.freenode.net #kubuntu or #kubuntu-devel
• Social Media

• Google+
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Reddit
• Linkedin
• Telegram

How to find the Kubuntu Podcast Team:

• Google+
• Youtube
• Audio feed ogg
• Audio feed mp3

Changes include:

• Firefox 41
• LibreOffice 5
• KDE Applications 15.08

Beta 2 Release Notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta2/Kubuntu

Get disk image from here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/15.10/beta-2/

The Beta-1 images can be downloaded from: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/wily/beta-1/

More information on Kubuntu Beta-1 can be found here: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/WilyWerewolf/Beta1/Kubuntu

The Alpha-2 images can be downloaded from: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/wily/alpha-2/

More information on Kubuntu Alpha-2 can be found here: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/WilyWerewolf/Alpha2/Kubuntu

The Alpha-1 images can be downloaded from: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/wily/alpha-1/

More information on Kubuntu Alpha-1 can be found here: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/WilyWerewolf/Alpha1/Kubuntu