Announcing Kubuntu 5.04

http://www.kubuntu.org/hoary-release.php [8 April 2005]

The Kubuntu team is proud to bring you our first release hot on the heels of Ubuntu's Hoary Hedgehog.

Kubuntu brings KDE to the Ubuntu world, creating a GNU/Linux distribution from the solid base of Ubuntu and the world leading K Desktop Environment. Kubuntu comes with the latest KDE 3.4 and the promise of 18 months support.

"With Ubuntu we had the opportunity to make the first class distribution that KDE deserves, in Kubuntu we have now done that" said developer Jonathan Riddell

Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth commented "KDE is a profoundly important part of the open source world - it's popular with both end users and developers and is one of the key pieces in the battle for the future of the desktop. I'm very excited to support this community effort to get KDE into Ubuntu."

About Kubuntu

Kubuntu is the result of several months effort to get KDE 3.4 into Ubuntu's main repository and create the first major derived Ubuntu distribution. It is not a fork of Ubuntu but an official project of it, sharing the same package archive and infrastructure. It is possible to convert an Ubuntu system to Kubuntu or vice versa.

Highlights of KDE 3.4 include the groupware manager Kontact 1.1, the multi-protocol instant messenger Kopete and the excellent KPDF reader. As well as official KDE applications Kubuntu also features the finest pick of leading Free Software desktop programmes.

KDE's default settings have been tweaked to Ubuntu standards while remaining true to KDE. Changes include sudo support, an uncluttered desktop and a tidied K-Menu for applications. Kubuntu developers come from the KDE and Debian communities and improvements are sent back to the original projects. Kubuntu would like to thank the KDE developers and Debian KDE packagers for their excellent work.

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

How to get Kubuntu

Kubuntu comes in Live CD or Install CD versions available for x86, PowerPC and AMD64 platforms. It can be downloaded from:

http://kubuntu.org/download.php

Please download by Bittorrent if possible.

Users with existing Kubuntu installations can upgrade to the final hoary with dist-upgrade. Existing Ubuntu users can install Kubuntu with the kubuntu-desktop package.

Feedback and Helping

We welcome feedback and help with making the next version of Kubuntu.

Comments can be left on this wiki page

https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/KubuntuHoaryReleaseComments

Any known problems can be found at

https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/KubuntuHoaryReleaseKnownProblems

Please report any problems through Bugzilla.

http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/

If you have a question try asking on the #kubuntu IRC channel on freenode or the mailing list

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users

Finally if you want to help improve Kubuntu please come and join us.

https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HelpingKubuntu