Three Wise Men

In a little bit more than a month before the release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx I decided that I want to try how KDE 4.4 behaves and if I am ready to switch from Gnome to KDE again. My heart was always with KDE and Qt but after KDE 3.5 everything went downhill and I switched to Gnome. I really want to try the new KDE, but going to Beta software on my primary workstation is not an option and I will stick with Karmic Koala for a while after the release of Lucid Lynx which will be shipping with KDE 4.4. The only option for me and others like me is to install KDE desktop on top of existing Ubuntu taking it from the backports repository. Here are simple step by step instructions on how to do this.

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Lucid Lynx is the new release of Ubuntu Linux operating system. We decided that it should be us testing it for you and telling you what’s new and what’s hot. This release of Ubuntu will be marked 10.04 LTS. Ubuntu is released every six months so you are always up to date with your software. LTS versions are released every two years and Canonical will be providing support for three years for every LTS release (five for servers). Let’s see what was simmering for the past six months and is due to release at the end of the April.