An overview of KDE and Kubuntu for the 2009 Flourish Conference in Chicago, IL

1. Kubuntu
GNU/Linux For Everyone!
Richard A. Johnson
April 03, 2009
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2. About Me
• Using and developing Linux for more than 15 years
• Member of the Ubuntu community
• Core Developer, MOTU, MOTU Council, Kubuntu Council,
Membership Board, and more...
• Member of the KDE community
• KDE e.V., Developer, Documentation Leader, News Editor
• Member of the Debian community
• Co-author of the Official Ubuntu Book
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3. Goals
• Provide an overview of KDE
• Provide an overview of Kubuntu
• Gluing it all together
• Getting you involved
• Answering your questions
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4. Disclaimer
• Anything I talk about is subject to change
• Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely
coincidental
• Use, re-engineering, reproduction, and redistribution
permitted
• No animals were harmed in the making of this presentation
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5. K Desktop Environment
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6. KDE
What is KDE?
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7. KDE
What is KDE?
Desktop Environment
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8. KDE
What is KDE?
Desktop Environment
Application Development
Framework
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9. KDE
What is KDE?
Desktop Environment
Application Development
Framework
Office Application Suite
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10. KDE
What is KDE?
Desktop Environment
• The pretty graphical stuff you see when you login to your
computer
• Network transparent, contemporary desktop for UNIX like
operating systems, Windows, and Mac OS X
• Open, reliable, stable, and monopoly-free computing
environment
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11. KDE
What is KDE?
Application Development Framework
• Infrastructure designed and implemented to help
programmers create robust and comprehensive
applications
• Implements the latest advances in framework technology
• Innovative KParts compound document technology
enables developers to quickly create first rate applications
utilizing cutting edge technology
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12. KDE
KDE Statistics
• 12 years old
• More than 2,000 SVN accounts
• More than 3,000 weekly commits
• Approximately 6,000,000 lines of code
• 53 languages and counting
• 35-45 million users
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13. KDE
What is KDE?
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14. IT’S COMMUNITY
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15. KDE
Community
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17. Kubuntu
What is Kubuntu?
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18. Kubuntu
What is Kubuntu?
GNU/Linux Operating System
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19. Kubuntu
What is Kubuntu?
GNU/Linux Operating System
Ubuntu foundation
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20. Kubuntu
What is Kubuntu?
GNU/Linux Operating System
Ubuntu foundation
Utilizes KDE instead of GNOME
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21. Kubuntu
What is Kubuntu?
It is the glue that bonds Ubuntu
and KDE
Creating the strongest desktop solution
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22. Kubuntu
Statistics
• 6 month release cycle
• Collaborate with the Debian Qt/KDE project
• 1 full-time Canonical employee, 10 active community
volunteers
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23. Kubuntu
Developers
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24. Kubuntu
Are batteries included?
Batteries are not included, but here are just a few categories of
applications included:
• Internet
• Multimedia
• Graphics
• Office
• Utilities
• System Management
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25. Kubuntu
Are batteries included?
The following application categories are readily available via a
DVD or the Internet:
• Development
• Games
• Education
• and more...
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26. Kubuntu
Applications
Internet
• Web Browser
• Chat Clients (IRC and IM)
• Mail Client
• P2P Client
Multimedia
• Audio Player
• Video Player
• Disk Burning
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27. Kubuntu
Applications
Graphics
• PDF Viewer
• Image Viewer
• Screenshots
Office
• OpenOffice.org
• Word Processor
• Spreadsheet
• Presentations
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28. Kubuntu
Applications
Utilities
• Text Editor
• Archive Tool
• Calculator
System Management
• System Controls
• File Management
• Package Management
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29. Kubuntu
Why Kubuntu?
• Follow upstream closer than any other project
• Have Ubuntu as a foundation
• Collaboration with one of the oldest and most stable
GNU/Linux distros - Debian
• Dedication to our users - we don’t just create stuff for us,
we do it for you!
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30. Kubuntu
But I keep hearing...
OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva,
and Arch are supposed to have
better KDE implementations
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31. Kubuntu
But I keep hearing...
Kubuntu is a 2nd class citizen
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32. Kubuntu
But I keep hearing...
What do you all hear?
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33. Getting Involved
Time to get involved!
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34. Getting Involved
KDE
Getting involved in KDE is easy, here are just a few areas
to get involved in:
• Promotion
• Documentation
• Translation
• Accessibility
• Artwork
• Development
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35. Getting Involved
KDE
http://www.kde.org/getinvolved/
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36. Getting Involved
Kubuntu
Getting involved in Kubuntu is easy, here are just a few
areas to get involved in:
• Promotion
• Documentation
• Translation
• Artwork
• Development
• Packaging
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37. Getting Involved
Kubuntu
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/HelpingKubun
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38. Questions?
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39. Contact Information
nixternal@ubuntu.com
rjohnson@kde.org
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