Kubuntu Yakkety Yak – Kubuntu https://kubuntu.org Friendly Computing Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:00:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 Kubuntu Podcast #18 – Yakkety Yak https://kubuntu.org/podcast/kubuntu-podcast-18/ Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:00:18 +0000 http://kubuntu.org/?p=3104

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Show Hosts

Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan

Rick Timmis

Aaron Honeycutt (Video/Audio Podcast Production)

Intro

What have we (the hosts) been doing ?

  • Aaron
    • Gone to cookery class
  • Rick
    • London Linux Meetup
    • Wrangling with Google+
    • Kubuntu Packaging Guide
  • Ovidiu
    • Kubuntu Vision Meeting
    • Coder Dojo

Sponsor: Big Blue Button

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Those of you that have attended the Kubuntu parties, will have seen our Big Blue Button conference and online education service.

Video, Audio, Presentation, Screenshare and whiteboard tools.

We are very grateful to Fred Dixon and the team at BigBlueButton.org go check out their project.

Kubuntu News

  • Kubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak
  • Kubuntu Vision Meeting

Elevator Picks

Sponsor: Linode

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Linode, an awesome VPS with super fast SSD’s, Data connections, and top notch support. We have worked out a sponsorship for a server to build packages quicker and get to our users faster.

Instantly deploy and get a Linode Cloud Server up and running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location.

  • SSD Storage
  • 40Gbit Network
  • Intel E5 Processors

BIG SHOUT OUT to Linode for working with us!

Kubuntu Developer Feedback

  • Great opportunity for a little post release rest

Sponsor: Bytemark

Bytemark was founded with a simple mission: reliable, UK hosting. Co-founders Matthew Bloch & Peter Taphouse, both engineers by nature built the business from the ground up.

Today, they lead a team of 31 staff who operate Bytemark’s own data centre in York, monitor its 10Gbps national network and deliver 24/7 support to clients of all sizes. Brands hosted on Bytemark’s network include the Royal College of Art, data.gov.uk and DVLA Auctions, and of course Kubuntu.

Drop by their website, and get Started with a free month of cloud hosting!

Afiliate link: http://www.bytemark.co.uk/r/kubuntu

Listener Feedback

Valorie and the whole Kubuntu team
I used Kubuntu for many years. Since 2000 I use Linux (Mandrake and then Kubuntu)
So I want to thank you and congratulate for your work and your distribution I look forward every 6 months
Good luck and thank you again
Sincerely : TuxMario
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Kubuntu 16.10 Released! https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-16-10-released/ Thu, 13 Oct 2016 20:10:36 +0000 http://kubuntu.org/?p=2953 kubuntu_16-10_yakkety_yak_ver2

 

We, the Kubuntu Team are very happy to announce that Kubuntu 16.10 is finally here!

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After 6 months of hard but fun work we have a bright new release for you all!

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We packaged some great updates from the KDE Community such as:

– Plasma 5.7.5
– Applications 16.04.3
– Frameworks 5.26.0

We also have updated to version 4.8 of the Linux kernel with improvements across the board such as Microsoft Surface 3 support.

For a list of other application updates, upgrading notes and known bugs be sure to read our release notes!

Download 16.10 or read about how to upgrade from 16.04.

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