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KDE Neon User Edition 5.6 Is Released So You Can Easily Experience Plasma 5.6

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 9 June 2016 at 08:04 AM EDT. 23 Comments

The first User Edition release is out for KDE Neon, which allows you to easily experience the latest Plasma stable experience and other updated KDE components.

KDE Neon continues to be based off of Ubuntu but with packaging the very latest KDE components. KDE Neon Developer Edition packages up all of the latest KDE Git code while this KDE Neon User Edition 5.6 release is riding on the Plasma 5.6 stable series.

This release makes use of Plasma 5.6, KDE Frameworks 5.22, and Qt 5.6 while using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as the base. More details on KDE Neon User Edition 5.6 can be found via dot.kde.org. Downloads at neon.kde.org.

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