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Kubuntu Tutorials Day is back. Join the Kubuntu team on IRC, #kubuntu-devel, for some fascinating chats with Free Software’s finest developers.

There are five months of development ahead for Intrepid, so this is the perfect way to learn how to get involved.

• 19:00UTC
  Getting Involved
  What’s happening in Intrepid and how can you join? Artwork, documentation, packaging, programming and more.
  Richard Johnson (nixternal)
• 20:00UTC
  Usability. Is it just about removing options?
  Celeste Lyn Paul (seele)
• 21:00UTC
  Packaging and merging howto
  Turn your apps into .debs, fix the packages already in the archive.
  Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
• 22:00UTC
  Plasma with Python
  Plasmoids that are easy to make.
  Michael Anderson (nosrednaekim)
• 23:00UTC
  Bug triage
  How to squish the beasties.
  Ralph Janke (txwikinger)
• From end of talks onwards…
  Kubuntu Q&A
  Got a question? We’re here to answer.
  Your Friendly Kubuntu Team

See Kubuntu Tutorials Day page for more information.

Canonical will not be officially supporting KDE 4 until Kubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” but for Kubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” will be a KDE 3.5 spin and then a community-supported Kubuntu 8.04 version based upon KDE 4.0 (though a few KDE 3 applications are still bundled). Arriving today, albeit a week after the Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 release, is the first KDE 4.0.1 Hardy Heron build.

Read more at Phoronix

I’m running Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) on one of my main workstations. As with its sibling Ubuntu, it’s an endlessly-entertaining blend of really nice stuff and really irritating stuff. The nice stuff is nearly-current releases of fast-moving applications like KDE, Digikam, Krita, KWord, and other apps that I use a lot, easy-on-the-eyes graphics, a good set of default applications, and nicely-organized menus. The irritating stuff is they still don’t pay enough attention to delivering reliable basic functionality in core functions like networking and printing. Both often require manual tweakage to get them to work correctly, and even then you may be foiled by a Helpful Daemon.

Read more at LinuxPlanet

We are seeing more and more questions relating to Kubuntu 8.04, the Hardy Heron, and KDE 4, and some KDE 3 as well. So to hopefully save you some keystrokes on IRC, forums, or mailing lists, lets try this out first.

• Will there be a KDE 4 Live CD for 8.04?
  • YES
• If So, when will it be available for download?
  • Take the date of this blog post and look at about a week hopefully. Some infrastructure changes are needed first, which are currently being addressed.
• Once again, if so, then where will it be available?
  • A good place to keep an eye out will be Kubuntu.org for an announcement. They should be released somewhere under THIS directory.
• Hey, KDE just included the ability to resize the Plasma Panel, is that included in your latest 4.0.1 updates?
  • A straight answer would be maybe, however we really want to follow the release schedule set forth by the KDE community, so if one of our developers don’t create a patch and include it right now, all you have to do is wait a month until 4.0.2 is released.

  Read more at nixternal

KDE 4.0 is now out and there is allready first Kubuntu based LiveCD (http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.php). New KDE 4.0 with Kubuntu is amaising, but lets look now back to history with some screenshots. I search all kind of news from DistroWatch , Google and Internet Archive.

First Kubuntu 5.04 was released  8 April 2005.

Here is the original announcement, what is right now availible at Internet Archive. This was first Kubuntu.

Features of Kubuntu 5.04:

• KDE 3.4
• HAL support for removable devices
• Ubuntu-powered out of the box hardware configuration
• OpenOffice.org office suite
• Gwenview image viewer
• amaroK music player
• K3b CD and DVD burner
• Konversation IRC chat
• Kaffeine video player
• Also available as a live CD

Its hard to find now some screenshost of Kubuntu 5.04, but I found some from golem.de website. Here is the main desktop of Kubuntu 5.05 LiveCD:

The next Kubuntu 5.10 was released 10 October 2005, codenamed ‘Breezy Badger’. This release comes with the very latest KDE 3.4.3 and includes the new Guidance configuration tools. From original announcement: Read the rest of this entry »

The KDE 4 series has begun with the release of 4.0. It is the start of something amazing.

If you want to test KDE 4 without installing packages download the live CD (554MB).

Packages are available for 7.10 (Gutsy) and our development Hardy version. They install to /usr/lib/kde4 and can be installed alongside your existing KDE 3.

Instructions:

• Remove previous KDE 4 packages, they are not compatible (apt-get remove kdelibs5 kde4base-data kde4libs-data)
• Add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main to your /etc/apt/sources.list
• Install kde4-core, note that PPAs aren’t authenticated so you will likely get a warning when installing
• KDE 4 apps should appear in your KDE 3 K-menu or you can run a full session by selecting “KDE 4″ from your login manager.
• To avoid having to start a second X server for a full session install xserver-xephyr and run Xephyr :1 then and run /usr/lib/kde4/bin/startkde in the Xerphyr xterm.

Thanks to stdin for his help with these packages.