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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. Re:Fvwm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    They aren't crap, they are krap. Read up about trolling before you attempt it.

  2. 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.

  3. how this different from Netrunner? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought Riddlell's employer, Blue Systems, put out a "fresh" KDE rolling release version based off of Arch called Netrunner. The Netrunner standard version is based off of Kubuntu. So what's the difference? Why do we need another Kubuntu based distro?

    1. Re:how this different from Netrunner? by Lord+Crc · · Score: 2

      As mentioned in the article (I know...), the base for Neon will be Ubuntu LTS. So everything except KDE will be nice and stable, unlike with a rolling distro like Netrunner.

    2. Re: how this different from Netrunner? by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 2

      I was a KDE user on Fedora from about Fedora 6 to 21. It got so bad that a lead maintainer quit and personally I've switched myself, friends, and family to XFCE. KDE 4.0 was hell until 4.1, but 5 was even worse. A real shame - their star was looking so bright for a while.

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  4. OpenSUSE? by xfizik · · Score: 2

    What's wrong with KDE being an option in OpenSUSE?

  5. What's wrong about "being an option"? by ffkom · · Score: 2

    Does KDE require a distribution to enforce its use on the user? If it's attractive to use, people will do so even if it's "optional".

    Generally, I don't understand why people are so much involved with the looks of their "desktop". To me, that's the least relevant part of an operating system.