The company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux software have decided to end funding for the Kubuntu variation of the operating system. Kubuntu is basically what you get when you take Ubuntu’s core software and tack on a custom version of the KDE desktop environment in place of the Unity user interface that the main branch of Ubuntu has used for…

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The folks behind Kubuntu Linux have decided to drop the separate Netbook Edition once Ubuntu and Kubuntu 10.10 are released in a few months. Instead, netbook-friendly code will be baked into the main operating system and Kubuntu will automatically determine the best settings to use for your computer upon installation. But that doesn’t mean the Kubuntu team has forgotten about…

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At times I’ve felt like KDE 4 is a little bit on the sluggish side on my desktop PCs. On a netbook’s Atom processor? I wouldn’t even have considered switching from Gnome if I hadn’t seen this video on YouTube. We’ve known the Plasma interface was coming for quite some time, and it finally made its debut in Kubuntu 9.10. After…

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Ubuntu 9.10 is due out in October, and the developers behind the popular Linux distribution are working to make sure the OS runs as well smoothly as possible on netbooks. I already mentioned that there’s a refined Ubuntu Netbook Remix interface. But if you prefer the KDE-based Kubuntu over the GNOME-based Ubuntu (and if you don’t know what that means,…

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