Be Wily and Enjoy the Progress of Kubuntu 15.10

[xennex81]

It was also once said that products are only best at the end of their life cycle.

[xennex81]

I never quite got the value of Vivid but I expect big things from Wily ;-). (I guess I'm just a .10 person).

[ronw]

I enjoy getting the constant stream of updates

Indeed, Wily + CI is where all the fun is now. Vivid has been released, so it needs to be stable/boring.

[NoWorries]

Dates to look forward to

I have found the tentative release schedule for Wily at Softpedia and the dates they give are all on a Thursday and are:

• 25th June ---------- Alpha 1
• 30th July ---------- Alpha 2
• 27th August ------- Beta 1
• 24th September ---- Final Beta
• 22nd October ------ Release Date

I enjoy getting the constant stream of updates and none of these have yet to break my system. It is good to see it diverging from Vivid.

The only constant annoyance that I experience at the moment is with the hplip-gui not finding the system tray. Yet it puts the icon in the system tray and stays there while the error message is kept. This is the same for Vivid as well. I am sure this will one day be fixed

[woodsmoke]

I JUST LOVE THIS THREAD!!

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[Wheel Inventor]

Things to come

If you want to peek the 'things to come' - The KDE part: https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/PP...ation_.28CI.29

[kubicle]

I have found that Wily is currently behind Vivid only in the Plasma version number

It isn't really behind (in the official repos) you've installed Plasma 5.3 (and likely also KDE applications 15.04) from the kubuntu backports ppa in your vivid installation, these packages aren't available from the official vivid repos.

We should be getting Frameworks 5.10, Plasma 5.3.1 and KDE Applications 15.04.1 in wily fairly soonish.

[NoWorries]

Backports and beta ppas recently added Wily. And now it has disappeared. I thought it was early for Wily to be showing up in ppas.

It is certainly early days and I am looking forward to seeing improvements in Wily over Vivid. I now have Wily installed and networked with my system. I assumed that the developers would be starting from Vivid and making changes to it in the process of evolving to Wily.

I have found that Wily is currently behind Vivid only in the Plasma version number as shown in the attached graphics. I expect to see major changes in the coming weeks.

[ronw]

By the way, Wily Werewolf has Plasma 5.2.2

Backports and beta ppas recently added Wily. And now it has disappeared. I thought it was early for Wily to be showing up in ppas.

I had good luck with a 15.04 iso and manually changing to wily in sources.list.

[NoWorries]

I have just found out that Kubuntu 15.10 is available at the daily build site used for Vivid, ie http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/.

I have downloaded it and had several goes at installing it and I have only had one success on my last attempt. I installed it in a separate partition and it stopped at a black screen. I then used the recovery mode and rebooted with a low resolution screen but I could not do a normal boot. I then removed all the partitions and defined a separate root and home directory for 15.10 and once again I ended up with a black screen and no disk activity.

I then decided to try the entire disk option in the installation. This time, after the reboot, it once again ended up with the black screen. As I have other things to do, I returned after about 30 minuted later and decided to just type in my password. This then sprung into life and I got the desktop.

I am sure that my problems are related to the video driver and I need to install the drivers. So tomorrow, I plan to do my fourth installation with separate root and home partitions and will choose the option to automatically login and then install the video drivers.

By the way, Wily Werewolf has Plasma 5.2.2