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Tue, 07 Dec 2004 04:02:03 . . . . t07548.phone.coop

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= Lugradio Live 2005 =

Who's going to LugRadio?

* Jonathan Riddell - giving talk on Kubuntu and KDE

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Write-up for the dot by Ben:

<a href="http://www.lugradio.org">LugRadio</a> is a fortnightly podcast covering everything Open Source and last weekend they held the first community run Linux exhibition in England. Jonathan Riddell, lead developer of Kububtu, and Ben Lamb were there to demo Kubuntu, the newly released KOffice 1.4 and the upcoming features of KDE 3.5. Jonathan gave a talk about Kubuntu development and KDE 4.

Jonathan's talk (<a href="http://www.david-web.co.uk/blog/?p=115">"one of the most interesting talks of the day"</a>) focused on <a href="http://www.kubuntu.org">Kubuntu</a>, an easy to install GNU/Linux distribution based around the KDE desktop. It is an ideal way to get the latest version of KDE and several hundred CDs were eagerly picked up by visitors.

Ben commented "Visitors were really impressed by how polished KDE applications are. <a href="http://www.koffice.org/krita">Krita</a>, the new KDE image manipulation program, was very well received and <a href="http://www.koffice.org/krita">Kexi</a> also generated a lot of interest."

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, stopped by the KDE stall. We were hoping to get a quote from him but he was speechless after seeing how easy it is to create PDFs from any KDE application and how KPDF seemlessly integrates with Konqueror.

<a href="http://jriddell.org/programs/kubuntu-lugradio-talk-06-2005/">Slides from Jonathan's talk</a> are available and videos of the days events should be online soon.