Fourteen months until KDE 4 comes to KUbuntu

Oxygen KDE K logo Unfortunately the late October release of KDE 4 means it will not be ready for the next KUbuntu release, and the release after that is a long-term-support release. With KUbuntu's release cycle this means it will take another fourteen months.

I am not sure whether I will change distribution over this. You can say what you want. But to me up-to-date packages are important!

I have been looking forward to KDE 4 for some time. I think it is a shame KUbuntu could not hold back it's release schedule to include the latest version of it's core element.

Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth has declared more publicity would be generated for open source software if the three large desktop projects of KDE, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org agreed on a common and regular release cycle.

During his keynote address at this year's aKademy KDE conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Shuttleworth suggested that KDE move to a more predictable, preferably six-month, release schedule.

Joint releases to jolt open source: Shuttleworth via Australian LinuxWorld

Mark correctly points out that KDE's release schedule is unpredictable. However I mean that is no reason why KUbuntu could not be held back a month to include KDE 4. I guess I just want too much…

But hey!? Maybe some other distribution got KDE 4 around it's release?.. That distribution would look really interesting to me!

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7 comments

Even though Kubuntu 7.10 doesn´t come shipped with KDE4, you can upgrade to it when it is ready (or before if you want to). The deb sources will probably be posted at kubuntus web-page when made available.

Comment by dajomu (Subscribed) at 2007-07-09 @687.

I should have clarified: Users will not get KDE 4 out of the box in KUbuntu for another fourteen months.

Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-07-09 @720.

There will be a KDE 4 Kubuntu CD available when 4.0 is released. As usual packages will also be available at release time. However I don't expect 4.0 to be very stable so you will be living on the edge.

Comment by Jonathan Riddell (Subscribed) at 2007-07-10 @340.

Could you provide more information about that CD, Jonathan? I have not heard about that before.

Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-07-10 @491.

Lets just hope that KDE 4 doesn't turn into another "we-have-to-release-this-even-if-its-full-of-bugs"- release. I'm not saying KDE has a history of it, but some other OS has done it numerous times.

Comment by Kent Vegard Evjen (Subscribed) at 2007-07-18 @252.

"Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu 8.04 (out April 2008) would be the next LTS (Long Term Support) release."

Which means it'll only take 9 months from now. Right?

Comment by Paul Swanson (Subscribed) at 2007-07-27 @344.

They will not include new [untested] software in a long term support release. That is part of the problem.

Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2007-07-27 @373.

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