KDE Plasma 5.6 Is Now Available To Fedora Users

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Plasma 5.6 Is Now Available To Fedora Users

While Ubuntu-based distributions have Project Neon and OpenSUSE have launched their own initiative for providing a bleeding-edge KDE stack, Fedora users through the use of Copr repositories are able to access newer KDE software...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-KDE-Plasma-5.6

[CapsAdmin]

So the existence of neon have gotten all these distros to suddenly care about providing ways to get the latest KDE packages. Maybe not a "win" for neon but definitely a win for KDE.

[dvratil]

Fedora KDE SIG has always provided beta previews (we might have missed one or two due to lack of time) of upcoming Plasma 5 releases, Neon has nothing to do with this. It's obviously good for KDE (more early testers), but it's also important for Fedora because we can properly test and tune our packaging before we ship it to all users.

[andre30correia]

So the existence of neon have gotten all these distros to suddenly care about providing ways to get the latest KDE packages. Maybe not a "win" for neon but definitely a win for KDE.

i think the problem is the kde, kde 5.4 is a bug, the distro makers are trying to push the new version because of many bugs

[Anvil]

looks Great,BUT I SHALL WAIT FOR IT TO BE IN THE MAIN REPO'S AS copr IS TO SLOW