Kubuntu Translations QA Day

This Friday (20th August) me and Ubuntu translations man David Planella want to spend the day making sure translations in Kubuntu are in tip top shape. Do join us on IRC in #kubuntu-devel if you want to help out. See the wiki page for some things we will be checking. [Discuss Kubuntu Translations QA Day [...]

Kubuntu developer wins KDE Akademy 2010 Award

Top Kubuntu developer Aurélien Gâteau (agateau) has been honoured with an Akademy Award for 2010. The Akademy Awards are given out each year at the annual KDE Akademy conference; the jury being formed of previous prize-winners. Aurélien won the award for his work on Gwenview, the image viewing application which ships with Kubuntu. He was [...]

Kubuntu Council Elections

The Kubuntu Council is a group of 6 Kubuntu Members who get to vote on membership to Kubuntu Members and occationally other decisions regarding Kubuntu. Half the council recently came to the end of their 2 year appointment so we need to hold elections for the open positions to the council. This could be you! [...]

PC-BSD 8.0 vs. Kubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

PC-BSD 8.0 was released last week and while we have already delivered FreeBSD 8.0 benchmarks including against Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Fedora / Debian / OpenBSD / OpenSolaris for which PC-BSD is based, we took this opportunity to deliver a fresh set of *BSD benchmarks. In this article we have benchmarks of PC-BSD 8.0 x64 against [...]

Kubuntu Netbook Edition Preview

Desktop developers are starting to understand that netbooks need different interfaces than workstations — or even notebooks. The smaller screens on netbooks are a usability challenge, comparable to designing a business card when you’re used to creating full-page ads. A case in point is KDE’s Plasma Netbook interface, now available in a preview in Kubuntu [...]

5 things make Kubuntu 9.10 special

1- Plasma Netbook Technical Preview Kubutnu is the first distribution will ship Plasma Netbook desktop under the name “Kubuntu Netbook Edition 9.10″. From the name you can guess it is not the final product. Kubuntu took an early snapshot from plasma netbook shell and packaged them for 9.10 release. The first official release of Plasma [...]

Preview of Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

The release of the newest version of Ubuntu is only 10 days away. Many sites, including MakeTechEasier have covered its pending arrival and given you a glimpse of the Beta version. Today we are going to take a look at Kubuntu, the KDE-based version of Ubuntu. Installation As with previous Kubuntu versions, you can install [...]

Kubuntu Jaunty: Just ‘cos I use it don’t mean it’s good

I’ve been using Kubuntu Jaunty since its release, and quite a bit before that as well (during the beta phase). Generally speaking, I can’t do without it. I use it as my primary operating system for both work and leisure, and I’ve upgrade virtually all of my staff’s laptops to use it as well. For [...]

Kubuntu Tutorials Day Spreads the Knowledge

The recent Kubuntu Tutorials Day featured five of free software’s finest speakers spreading their knowledge to a large audience. There were talks on Kubuntu, artwork, packaging, as well as an introduction to Ruby. There was also a special guest speaker from Amarok who gave a well received tutorial on scripting Amarok with QtScript. Full and [...]

Kubuntu Tutorials Day will Get You into KDE Programming

Time for another Kubuntu Tutorials Day. Learn about KDE and Kubuntu development in a helpful atmosphere next Monday from 19:00UTC in the #kubuntu-devel IRC freenode channel. We have a lineup of exciting speakers on a range of topics. Read on for the timetable Read more at KDE.news