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Project Neon Will Bring Users Up-to-Date KDE Packages (cio.com)

Posted by timothy on from the punctuated-equilibrium dept.

sfcrazy writes: [Kubuntu founder Jonathan Riddell] is going to announce a new project at FOSDEM that brings the KDE experience to users. There is Fedora that offers latest from Gnome, but there is no such distro that offers the same level of integration with KDE software; yes, there is openSUSE but it offers KDE as an option. So Kubuntu based KDE Neon is a project to give KDE users and contributors a way to get KDE's desktop software while it's still fresh. It'll be providing packages of the latest KDE software so users can install it and stay up to date on a stable base.

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  1. What is wrong with kde on Fedora? by TheSunborn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is wrong with kde on Fedora?

    I am currently running Kde Fedora, with Kde Plasma 5.5.3 (The newest Plasma is 5.5.4, released just a few days ago som I am 0.0.1 from the newest when using standard Fedora).

    So for me, Fedora with kde instead of Gnome seems to be the perfect Kde based linux.

    1. Re: What is wrong with kde on Fedora? by WarJolt · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think it's fair to say that KDE maintainers for all distributions have significantly larger backlogs of software that needs to be packaged than gnome developers do. When users aren't using latest stable versions of packages it's really not good for a software community. For example you might have users experiencing issues that are already fixed upstream.