The Kubuntu team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Plasma 5 flavor of the Kubuntu ISO which can be found here (here’s a mirror to the torrent file in case the server is slow). Unlike it’s Neon 5 counterpart , this ISO contains packages made from the stock Plasma 5.0 release . The ISO is meant to be a technical preview of what is to come when Kubuntu switches to Plasma 5 by default in a future release of Kubuntu.
A special note of thanks to the Plasma team for making a rocking release. If you enjoy using KDE as much as we do, please consider donating to Kubuntu and KDE 🙂
NB: When booting the live ISO up, at the login screen, just hit the login button and you’ll be logged into a Plasma 5 session.
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This is awesome, thank you! Can this be installed on a hard disk?
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Yep! Just search for “Install Ubuntu” in the Kickoff and you’ll be able to install it 🙂
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Thanks.
What’s the difference between the dated ISO and latest ISO? I suppose latest one can be zsynced making better use of bandwidth.
Are you guys planning to switch to Plasma 5 on 14.10 as a default desktop or will KDE 4.14 be the default?
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You’re correct, latest will always point to the latest ISO, which you can zsync later on.
Kubuntu 14.10 will ship with 4.14 by default, and we are thinking of releasing a Kubuntu Plasma 5 ISO alongside the regular 14.10 release. This would ofcourse be a tech preview of things to come in 15.04 ( or later, timelines are fuzzy right now ).
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Good news ! But I wonder…what’s the difference between these ISOs and “Project Neon” ISOs ?
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Neon 5 ISO’s are from git, these are made from the stock 5.0 release.
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It would be very useful to mention what processor architecture iso is contained in torrent.
I dont believe it’s universal since cdimage.ubuntu.com separates i386 and amd64 isos.
This information is useless for me, but thanks anyway.
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