Kubuntu 15.04 Will Be Based On KDE5

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 1, 2014 @03:38AM from the projects-to-admire dept.

jones_supa writes Kubuntu Vivid is the development name for what will be released in April next year as Kubuntu 15.04. The exciting news is that following some discussion and some wavering, the Kubuntu team will be switching to Plasma 5 by default. They claim that it has shown itself as a solid and reliable platform and it's time to show it off to the world. There are some bits which are missing from Plasma 5 which are planned to be filled in over the next six months. As another technical detail, Debian git is now used to store the packaging in a Kubuntu branch, so hopefully it will be easier to share updates.

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KDE5 has nice features, but... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-01 03:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I see there is much discussion going on on this thread, but I'm afraid I can't participate until I have formed an opinion... but to form an opinion I need frequent contributor Bennett Haselton to comment on this topic. I'm confident my wishes are heard and bennett will contribute to slashdot again. After all, he's a frequent contributor.