Kubuntu

Kubuntu is an official flavor of the Canonical, Ltd. backed Ubuntu distribution that, along with other official flavors, offers alternative desktop environments to the GNOME desktop environment used in the default Ubuntu flavor. Kubuntu provides KDE's Plasma desktop environment with the same Debian based, Ubuntu core provided in the default distribution flavor and the other flavors.

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Estimated Usage Unknown
Inception Year April 8, 2005, midnight
Country United Kingdom
Website https://kubuntu.org
Download Portal https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu
Documentation Portal None
Development Portal None
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Distribution Base Ubuntu
Architectures 64-bit PC (AMD64, Intel 64, x86_64)
Init System systemd
C Standard Library GNU C Standard Library (glibc)
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Distribution Default Package Format .deb
Distribution Default Low Level Package Manager
Distribution Default Package Manager Database
Distribution Default CLI Binary Package Manager Advanced Package Manager (APT)
Distribution Default GUI Binary Package Manager Discover
Distribution Default CLI Source Package Manager
Distribution Default GUI Source Package Manager
Distribution Default Build System

Editions/Variants/Spins

Logo Distribution Edition Screenshot Edition Release Type Release Frequency Distribution Base Desktop Environment
Kubuntu Default Regular Biannually Independent/Original Plasma

Reviewed Releases

Logo Release Screenshot Release Name Release Version Release Distribution Edition Release Date Review Publication Date Review Title
Focal Fossa 20.04 LTS Kubuntu Default April 23, 2020 May 21, 2020, 6 p.m. Kubuntu 20.04 LTS Review