KDE neon

KDE neon
Base logo (many thematic variations also in use)[1]
Screenshot of KDE neon 6 with the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment. Also containing on this picture is the open menu and setting page targeted to the "About This System" tab.
KDE neon 6.0
DeveloperKDE
Written inC/C++/Qt 6
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen source
Initial releaseJune 8, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-06-08)[2]
Latest releaseUser Edition:
20240228, based on Ubuntu 22.04 and Plasma 6, kernel Linux 6.5 / 28 February 2024; 6 months ago (2024-02-28)
Repositorycommunity.kde.org/Neon/Git
Marketing targetPeople who want the newest versions of KDE Plasma
Available in80 languages[3]
List of languages
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Aragonese, Arabic, Assamese, Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bokmål, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese, Crimean, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Friulian, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Mandarin, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Occitan, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Welsh
Update methodAPT
Package managerPackageKit[4]/Discover (GUI)
Platformsx86-64[5]/AArch64[6]
Kernel typeMonolithic
UserlandGNU, Ubuntu long-term support base
Default
user interface		KDE Plasma 6
LicenseVarious open-source licenses, mainly the LGPL-2.1 and GPL-2
Official websiteneon.kde.org

KDE neon is a Linux distribution developed by KDE based on Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, bundled with a set of additional software repositories containing the latest versions of the Plasma 6 desktop environment/framework, Qt 6 toolkit and other compatible KDE software.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] First announced in June 2016 by Kubuntu founder Jonathan Riddell following his departure from Canonical Ltd.,[14] it has been adopted by a steadily growing number of Linux users, regularly appearing in the Top 20 on DistroWatch.com's popularity tables.[15]

It is offered in stable and development variants; the User Edition is a stable release featuring the latest KDE packages that have passed their quality assurance, while the Testing, Unstable, and Developer Edition branches use the latest beta and unstable nightly releases of KDE packages (the last of which bundled with KDE development libraries and headers).[16]

  1. ^ "KDE neon logo concept". KDE Nextcloud. Archived from the original on 2019-07-09. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  2. ^ "KDE neon User Edition 5.6 Available now". KDE.news. 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  3. ^ "Packages in "PPA for Ubuntu language pack builders" : PPA for Ubuntu language pack builders : "Ubuntu language pack builders" team". launchpad.net. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  4. ^ "KDE neon FAQ: How do I Update to the Latest Software?". neon.kde.org. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  5. ^ "KDE neon FAQ: Is KDE neon 64-bit only?". neon.kde.org.
  6. ^ "KDE neon on the $100 Pinebook". KDE neon Developers' Blog. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
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  14. ^ "Kubuntu's founder resigns, accuses Canonical of defrauding donors and violating copyright". PCWorld. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  15. ^ "KDE neon". DistroWatch.com. 2019-07-05. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  16. ^ "KDE neon New Edition Names – KDE neon Developers' Blog". 29 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-09.