That might change in the future, but for now you can't get a taste of the new Plasma unless you try Kubuntu 15.04.Ĭheck out the official announcement for more details about this release. If you feel a little bit more adventurous, and you want to get the new Plasma, the old PPAs seem to no longer work, at least for now.
There is no official word from the Kubuntu team (as of yet) about this particular release, but we can tell you that it comes with the same kernel implemented in Kubuntu 14.10.Īlso, if you want to stick to the "old" KDE 4.13, that's OK and you will be safe to do that.
A new kernel and no way to install the latest Plasma The operating system will continue to use it long after the new Plasma 5 desktop has been out, which makes this Kubuntu branch a little bit quirky. In fact, Kubuntu 14.04.2 LTS is still using the KDE SC 4.13 branch, which is no longer under active development. As usual, no new features are implemented and users should now expect to find anything different about their desktop. In this case, it's a new point release that brings all the relevant security patches and a big upgrade for the Linux kernel, amongst other smaller things. The Kubuntu LTS flavor is supported for a period of five years, just like the Ubuntu-based one and it will receive the same kind of important patches. Kubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (Trusty Tahr), a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that uses the KDE desktop environment, has been released and is now available for download.