Noble Gases
There are often long delays before the customary distributions deliver new KDE versions. KDE and openSUSE now offer images for enthusiasts that have the most current KDE packages.
New distributions with the most current KDE versions
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KDE fans are frustrated. They can't even find a long ago current KDE plasma version in the package sources for Debian Unstable. This is a bitter pill since KDE Plasma 5.4.3, which is present in the sources, is easy to use but full of inconsistencies that have long been resolved in the newer versions. The KDE neon [1] project has come to the rescue. This project is based on Ubuntu and was founded by KDE developer Jonathan Riddell in order to offer the latest developments in KDE to developers and fans on a stable basis. OpenSUSE quickly jumped on the bandwagon and now offers something similar.
The project was officially introduced at the end of January by Riddell at the FOSDEM event in Brussels. At first, the project met with a lack of understanding [2]. Was it supposed to mean that KDE would need to release its own distribution in order to remain relevant? The project was quick to make clear that neon does not represent a complete end-user distribution and that the project did not originate with KDE but rather with Riddell. After the details were more clearly explained, it was time to start work.
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