The Ubuntu Below Zero conference is in full momentum this week and Kubuntu has been prominent throughout. In his opening remarks at the start of the conference Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that he was now using Kubuntu on his desktop machine and said he wanted Kubuntu to move to a first class distribution within the Ubuntu community. The large number of Kubuntu users at the conference was evidence as the need for this. Free CDs for Kubuntu through shipit should be available for the next release if the planned Live CD Installer removes the need for a separate install CD.
Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell said how pleased he was at the success of Kubuntu, “KDE is a great platform to base our distribution off and we will continue to work closely with KDE developers to make the best operating system available”.
Commercial support is available for Kubuntu through Canonical and many of the companies listed on the Ubuntu Marketplace.
As a community project Kubuntu always welcomes new developers, translators, documentation writers and artists. Our goals for the next release are included in the Specifications being created at the on-going conference. Please join us in #kubuntu IRC channel on the Freenode network or the kubuntu-devel e-mail list and see the HelpingKubuntu wiki page for more ideas.