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KDE neon


Last Update: 2023-11-02 13:22 UTC


KDE neon is a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution and live DVD featuring the latest KDE Plasma desktop and other KDE community software. Besides the installable DVD image, the project provides a rapidly-evolving software repository with all the latest KDE software. Two editions of the product are available - a "User" edition, designed for those interested in checking out the latest KDE software as it gets released, and a "Developer's" edition, created as a platform for testing cutting-edge KDE applications.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 14 (543), 6 months: 14 (496), 3 months: 16 (500), 4 weeks: 12 (544), 1 week: 21 (433)

Average visitor rating: 8.46/10 from 102 review(s).


KDE neon Summary
Distribution KDE neon
Home Page https://neon.kde.org/
Mailing Lists --
User Forums https://discuss.kde.org/tag/neon
Alternative User Forums
Documentation https://community.kde.org/Neon
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2018-09-26: Distribution Release: KDE neon 20180925
 • 2016-10-05: Distribution Release: KDE neon 5.8
 • 2016-07-05: Distribution Release: KDE neon 5.7
 • More KDE neon releases...

  Headlines:
 • 2021-09-07 Review of the KDE Slimbook
 • 2020-11-16 Plasma Mobile available on PinePhone
 • 2020-08-11 KDE neon updates base system to Ubuntu 20.04
 • 2019-11-25 New Snapcraft extension improves KDE apps
 • 2018-10-26 Pine64 plans PinePhone with Plasma
 • 2018-10-17 KDE neon dropping older Ubuntu-based versions
 • 2018-01-17 KDE to focus on Wayland features
 • 2017-01-22 KDE neon to use Calamares
 • 2016-12-10 KDE neon gets LTS branch
 • 2016-11-14 KDE neon closes security hole
 • More KDE neon headlines...

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  • Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.
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Feature 20231102 20221020 20201231 20191226 20180906 20171228
Release Date 2023-11-02 2022-10-20 2021-12-30 2020-12-31 2019-12-26 2018-09-06
End Of Life            
Price (US$) Free Free Free Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 2400-2500 2000-2100 1600-1700 1600-1700 1400-1500 1700-1800
Free Download ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO
Installation Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical
Default Desktop KDE Plasma KDE Plasma KDE Plasma KDE Plasma KDE Plasma KDE Plasma
Package Management DEB (apt) DEB (apt) DEB (apt) DEB (apt) DEB (apt) DEB (apt)
Release Model Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed
Office Suite -- -- -- -- -- --
Processor Architecture x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
Init Software systemd systemd systemd systemd systemd systemd
Journaled File Systems Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS
Multilingual Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Asian Language Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Full Package List 20231102 20221020 20201231 20191226 20180906 20171228
Package 20231102 20221020 20201231 20191226 20180906 20171228
abiword (3.0.5) -- -- -- -- -- --
alsa-lib (1.2.10) 1.2.6.1 1.2.2 1.2.2 1.2.2 1.1.3 1.1.0
amdgpu (23.0.0) 22.0.0 19.1.0 19.1.0 19.1.0 18.0.1 18.0.1
bash (5.2.21) 5.1 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.4.18 4.3
bind (9.18.20) -- -- -- -- -- --
chromium (119.0.6045.199) -- -- -- -- -- --
cups (2.4.7) 2.4.1 2.3.1 2.3.1 2.3.1 2.2.7 2.1.3
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) 4.4.1 4.4.1 4.4.1 4.4.1 4.3.5 4.3.3
e2fsprogs (1.47.0) 1.46.5 1.45.5 1.45.5 1.45.5 1.44.1 1.42.13
firefox (120.0.1) 119.0 106.0 95.0.1 84.0 71.0 61.0.1
freetype (2.13.2) 2.11.1 2.10.1 2.10.1 2.10.1 2.8.1 2.6.1
gcc (13.2.0) -- -- -- -- -- --
gimp (2.10.36) -- -- -- -- -- --
glibc (2.38) 2.34.1 2.31 2.31 2.31 2.27 2.23
gnome-shell (45.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
gnucash (5.4-1) -- -- -- -- -- --
gnumeric (1.12.56) -- -- -- -- -- --
grub (2.06) 2.06 2.04 2.04 2.04 2.02 2.02beta2
gtk (4.12.4) 3.24.33 3.24.20 3.24.20 3.24.20 3.22.30 3.18.9
httpd (2.4.58) -- -- -- -- -- --
inkscape (1.3.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
k3b (23.08.3) -- -- -- -- -- --
kmod (31) 29 27 27 27 24 22
krita (5.2.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
libreoffice (7.6.3) -- -- -- -- -- --
linux (6.6.3) 6.2 5.15 5.11 5.4 5.0 4.15
Package 20231102 20221020 20201231 20191226 20180906 20171228
lxpanel (0.10.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
mariadb (11.1.3) -- -- -- -- -- --
mate-desktop (1.26.2) -- -- -- -- -- --
mesa (23.3.0) 23.0.4 21.2.6 21.0.3 20.0.8 19.0.8 18.0.5
mysql (8.2.0) -- -- -- -- -- --
nautilus (45.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
NVIDIA (545.29.06) -- -- -- -- -- --
openbox (3.6.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
openjdk (21.0.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
openssh (9.5p1) 8.9p1 8.2p1 8.2p1 8.2p1 7.6p1 7.2p2
openssl (3.2.0) 3.0.2 1.1.1f 1.1.1f 1.1.1f 1.1.1 1.0.2g
perl (5.38.2) 5.34.0 5.30.0 5.30.0 5.30.0 5.26.1 5.22.1
php (8.3.0) -- -- -- -- -- --
plasma-desktop (5.27.9) 5.27.9 5.26.0 5.23.4 5.20.4 5.17.4 5.13.5
postfix (3.8.3) -- -- -- -- -- --
postgresql (16.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
Python (3.12.0) 3.10.12 3.8.2 3.8.2 3.8.2 3.6.9 2.7.12
qt (6.6.1) 5.15.11 5.15.5 5.15.2 5.15.2 5.13.2 5.11.1
samba (4.19.3) 4.15.13 4.13.17 4.13.14 4.11.6 4.7.6 --
systemd (254.7) 249.11 245.4 245.4 245.4 237 229
thunderbird (115.5.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
vim (9.0) 8.2 8.1 8.1 8.1 8.0 7.4
vlc (3.0.20) 3.0.16 3.0.9.2 3.0.9.2 3.0.9.2 3.0.8 2.2.2
wayland (1.22.0) -- -- -- -- -- --
xfdesktop (4.18.1) -- -- -- -- -- --
xorg-server (21.1.9) 21.1.4 1.20.13 1.20.13 1.20.8 1.19.6 1.19.6

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Version: 20231102
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-14
Votes: 2


Excellent job, KDE developers. I have been driving KDE neon on a daily basis for almost a year now, and I cannot think of a better out of the box option. If I were to make a decision to switch to a different distro, I would opt for supreme Debian. However, I am currently content with great KDE neon. A stable base, the newest plasma desktop, and out-of-the-box support for Flatpak and Snap with a minimum base app selection are ideal choices for me. The usability of the live medium and multimedia support are also important to me.



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Version: 20230913
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-19
Votes: 0


Excellent job, KDE developers. I have been driving KDE neon on a daily basis for almost a year now, and I cannot think of a better out of the box option. If I were to make a decision to switch to a different distro, I would opt for supreme Debian. However, I am currently content with great KDE neon. A stable base, the newest plasma desktop, and out-of-the-box support for Flatpak and Snap with a minimum base app selection are ideal choices for me. The usability of the live medium and multimedia support are also important to me.


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Version: 20230906
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-09
Votes: 4


I like many distros... but for a desktop I always seem to come back to KDE. Complicating matters, I run all my Linux on unibody MacBook Pro machines, mostly 2012s either 13" or 15". Some I dual boot with Mac OS under Open Core Legacy Patcher and others I run wholly as Linux machines. So my plusses and minuses are going to reflect the hardware bias I have.

In short, KDE Neon is for me a fantastic landing point re my 15" 2012 2.3ghz MacBook. I have a cheap SSD of 500g inside, along w/ 16g of memory. That's overkill, frankly, for Neon's rather lightweight impact on memory. I could have done 8g easily.

Best things about Neon? I like the regular updating, which some say does make things less stable. It has not for me, though the latest version refused to fully update until I removed the dysfunctional anyway Android Studio. The KDE desktop is almost too tweakable (ha!) and after installing an Apple-like theme it really looks fine on my 2012's hi-res 'matte' screen.

I did install mbpfan to deal w/ heating issues. Also had a little bit of a time getting wifi to work, but using a wired network allowed me to install the driver. For those wanting how, go to terminal window and:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source

This installs the best resulting broadcom wifi.

There's one other issue, at least for me. I hate almost all linux implementations for the Apple trackpad. Best result, still imperfect?

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

I use my KDE Neon setup at least half the time I'm on a machine.


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