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As previously blogged Kubuntu Romania launched. Site creator Ovidiu-Florin has a launch ceremony with wine and ribbon to open it. Now that's style.

Kubuntu România launches today, a Romanian language website with Kubuntu news and support.

Winter is coming so why not snuggle up with Kubuntu? Kubuntu keeps everyone warm.

With some idle time on my hands due to waiting on an especially long build, I decided to put some time into cleaning up my KDevelop's UI layout today: Click for original resolution. I removed all but the elements I actually ever click on in the main window -- all the rest I usually access via keyboard shortcuts or the menu (which I'm now going to try using via the window deco button). Since working on an IRC client makes you feel at home with text fields at the bottom of windows, I moved those toolbars down below the bottom toolview button and moved the remaining toolbar actions into the left toolview button column (I already use label-less toolbars on the left in some other apps, e.g. Gwenview). All together, this saves a lot of vertical space, which is precious on my widescreen laptop. Read More

The writer on Netrunner Mag did a review of the Best KDE Distro of 2013 and came to the following conclusion: So beauty plus stability plus accessibility, the precarious triple-point equilibrium lands flat in the court of Kubuntu. This is quite an achievement, and the team behind their project should be really proud. Raring Ringtail is an awesome KDE demonstrator, and it tickles all the right glands. If you have friends and family you might want to expose to Linux, then Kubuntu will probably be the best overall choice.

Application icons had stopped showing sometimes in the KDE SC 4.11.1 update but our lovely upstreams found a fix and when I was notified by a user I was happy to add it to the Kubuntu packages. What a lovely response.. Read More

Medibuntu the archive with libdvdcss and a number of other package which couldn't be put into the official Ubuntu archive is to disappear. Gauvain Pocentek who has been maintaining it for some time is wanting to move himself and his server on. At Blue Systems and in Kubuntu we looked over the packages in the archive and realised they were all obsolete or unnessecary because most are now in the official Ubuntu archive or have better equivalents which are. The main exception is libdvdcss which is illegal in the US so can't go in the archive. But fear not I've been working with the developers of libdvdcss at VideoLan to set up an archive directly at VideoLan. It works with either Ubuntu or Debian of pretty much any release Read More

Thanks to the elite packaging skills of smartboyhw and the review skills of Quintasan we now have kdeconnect in Kubuntu saucy so you can use your phone to control Amarok. Read More

There is a Debian+Kubuntu Bug Squashing Party in Munich and you're invited! If you're wanting to help out with Kubuntu or Debian or KDE do come along and start squishing beasties. It's hosted by our friends at LiMux who do the Munich city rollout of Kubuntu. See the wiki page for more details. I'm going and hope to see you there. Kubuntu Council should be able to sponsor travel for any Kubuntu friendly people who need travel and accomodation. Read More

As reported on Slashdot Commercial Support is available again for Kubuntu. If you or your organisation needs help with your computer systems running Kubuntu but you don't want to worry about the best IRC channel to ask in you can pay some money and phone up the office in England to get some help. They will use phone, e-mail, Google hangout, Skype, VNC and any other method you like to help diagnose the issue and resolve it for you. Read More