Testing a switch to default Breeze-Dark Plasma theme in Bionic daily isos and default settings
Today’s daily ISO for Bionic Beaver 18.04 sees an experimental switch to the Breeze-Dark Plasma theme by default. Users running 18.04 development version who have not deliberately opted to use Breeze/Breeze-Light in their systemsettings will also see the change after upgrading packages. Users can easily revert back to the Breeze/Breeze-Light…
Kubuntu Kafe Live approaching
This Saturday ( December 2nd ) the second Kubuntu Kafe Live, our online video cafe will be taking place from 21:00 UTC. Join the Kubuntu development community, and guests as our intrepid hosts. Aaron Honeycut Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan Rick Timmis Discuss a cornucopia of topics in this free format, magazine style…
Kubuntu Most Wanted
Kubuntu Cafe Live, is our new community show. This new format show is styled using a magazine format. We created lots of space for community involvement, breaking the show into multiple segments, and we want to get you involved. We are looking for Presenters, Trainers, Writers and Hosts. Are you…
Latte Dock v0.7.2 arrives in KDE and Kubuntu backports PPA
Latte Dock, the very popular doc/panel app for Plasma Desktop, has released its new bugfix version 0.7.2. This is also the first stable release since Latte Dock became an official KDE project at the end of August. Version 0.7.1 was added to our backports PPA in a previous…
Plasma 5.11.3 bugfix release now in backports PPA for Artful Aardvark 17.10
The 3rd bugfix update (5.11.3) of the Plasma 5.11 series is now available for users of Kubuntu Artful Aardvark 17.10 to install via our Backports PPA. This update also includes an update for Krita to 3.3.2.1. To update, add the following repository to your software sources list: ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports or if…
Plasma 5.8.8 LTS and Krita 3.3.2.1 now in Xenial Backports PPA
The 8th bugfix update (5.8.8) of the Plasma 5.8 LTS series is now available for users of Kubuntu Xenial Xerus 16.04 to install via our Backports PPA. This update also includes an update for Krita to 3.3.2.1. To update, add the following repository to your software sources list: ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports or…
Join us for Kubuntu Cafe live tonight! – 4th November – 9pm-11pm UTC
Join us for our /dev/random format online community ‘unconference’. Hosted by our very own ‘Kubuntu Musketeers’ @Sick_Rimmit @Ovidiuflorin @AhoneyBun 9 pm- 11 pm UTC. This open format show provides a huge variety including. Discussion, Tech Guests, Tutorials, Reviews, Projects, Hacks, User guidance, Quests, Contests. The agenda is built on the…
Plasma 5.11.2 and other goodies now in Artful backports PPA
The 2nd bugfix update (5.11.2) of the Plasma 5.11 series is now available for users of Kubuntu Artful Aardvark 17.10 to install via our backports PPA. Please note that 3 more bugfix releases are scheduled by KDE for Plasma 5.11, so while we feel these backports will be beneficial to…
Help test Plasma 5.8.8 LTS and Krita 3.3.1 for Kubuntu Backports!
Have you been using the Kubuntu Backports PPA on Kubuntu 16.04 LTS? Help us test the latest release of KDE Plasma LTS and Krita 3.3.1! Our goal is to release these updates to users on Saturday, November 4, 2017 barring any issues. You can find the full changelog for KDE…
Many thanks to Linode
Behind the scenes with Kubuntu, we build packages, then test and finally release to our users. We mostly rely on the building services provided by Canonical on Launchpad, but also are lucky enough to have services donated by some third parties. A lot of our developers are working on quite…