Kubuntu 10.04 Released!
April 30th, 2010 | Published in KDE, Kubuntu, Release | 7 Comments
Wow, what an awesome development cycle! The Lucid Lynx has matured to a ripe old age of 10.04 and now brings you 3 years of support through free security and maintenance updates for your desktop. The Kubuntu team, as well as the entire Ubuntu community, did an awesome job this cycle and my hats off to each and every one of you, job well done friends!
Some new things for this release include:
- New branding
- KDE Plasma Desktop 4.4
- An official Kubuntu Netbook Remix featuring KDE Plasma Netbook 4.4
- Amarok 2.3
- Installer slideshow (I did the text, so read it! Let me know how horrible it is and we can fix that up in future releases)
- KDE integration for Firefox
- and more…
One mission down, many more missions to go. Next mission, Kubuntu Maverick Meerkat! That’s right, cat with a ‘K‘ 
April 30th, 2010 at 13:47:52 (#)
I am curious.
Are you in favor of syncing with Debian Testing for Maverick?
April 30th, 2010 at 13:57:31 (#)
I don’t know to be honest. Part of me wants to say yes but I also have that developer part of me that wants the latest and greatest. If anything we should have looked a bit more at testing during Lucid, which I think a lot of us did because I did see sync requests with Debian Testing. I think this type of topic should definitely be discussed especially at UDS next month.
Another thing I have noticed is even though we did sync a lot with debian unstable, all of those apps that we did sync were approved and put into testing, with regard to the desktop environments of course, where testing is lagging a few releases behind for pretty much everyone in that respect.
If I am not using Kubuntu, I am using Debian Unstable, so I am a bit biased in this respect.
May 1st, 2010 at 02:57:18 (#)
Are the kubuntu devs patch kde? i am running kubuntu lucid and chakra, and kubuntu has some anoyng kde bugs, like kdm restarting sometimes when i switch the desktop/activity(it is imposible to reproduce it) so i can’t use kubuntu yet, maybethey will fix it . The complaint is that in chakra i have none of the kde bugs i get in kubuntu.
May 2nd, 2010 at 18:40:49 (#)
Chakra/Arch patches KDE too, even borrowing some Kubuntu patches. (Nothing wrong with this, either)
This is just to say, that the existence of patches does not instantly mean bugs.
The problem you describe (bouncing back to the login screen when switching users) sound like an Xorg crash anyways, which are issues with the Xorg graphics driver for your card.
May 3rd, 2010 at 13:41:23 (#)
Nvidia drivers don’t work, desktop effects disabled, no support for Xinerama, Nepomuk/Strigi don’t work, akonadi non-functional. Performs like there’s still a bunch of debug code running. The same desktop component crashes endemic to 9.10 (you’d think they could have fixed those at least). This release is an even worse disaster than the previous one, and that was almost too much to bear. After five years, I’m searching for another distro.
July 30th, 2010 at 17:50:21 (#)
I agree with Mike,
This is absolutely horrible, and I am gonna find meself another distro ASAP. What a mess!
poor performance, dodgy dodgy disk i/o… disaster waiting to happen…
I never got beyond 9.04, I could still bear that, however 10.04 is too much to bear for me.
August 28th, 2010 at 01:09:44 (#)
Kubuntu is awesome. It is one of the best clean operating systems one can come across. The features are much better than Ubuntu and create a world of more features. We look forward to more missions from you.