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<title>Welcome to &kubuntu;</title>
&legalnotice;
<abstract>
<para>
This document provides a brief overview of &kubuntu; to be read prior to or
after installation.
</para>
</abstract>
</articleinfo>
<sect1 id="thank-you">
<title>Welcome and Thank You</title>
<para>
Welcome to &kubuntu; &distro-rev;, the &distro-version; release. &kubuntu; is a
user-friendly, Linux-based operating system that uses the KDE Plasma Desktop.
With a predictable six month release cycle as part of the Ubuntu project,
&kubuntu; is the Linux distribution for everyone. The entire &kubuntu; team
thanks you for choosing &kubuntu;.
</para>
<para>
To read more about &kubuntu;, please view the <ulink type="help"
url="help:/kubuntu/about">About &kubuntu;</ulink> topic.
</para>
<para>
To read more about the &kubuntu; Desktop, please view the <ulink type="help"
url="help:/kubuntu/desktop">&kubuntu; Desktop</ulink> topic.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="releases">
<title>&kubuntu; Releases</title>
<para>
&kubuntu; currently has two types of releases available for download. For more
information on the releases, please select a link below:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><xref linkend="releases-desktop"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><xref linkend="releases-netbook"/></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<sect2 id="releases-desktop">
<title>&kubuntu; &distro-rev;</title>
<para>
Features KDE &kde-version; to be used on either laptops or desktop computers.
&kubuntu; is a full-featured desktop operating system that contains plenty of
applications to suit your everyday needs, with more than 20,000 other titles
available to be easily installed.
</para>
<note><title>Have a netbook?</title>
<para>
If you own a netbook computer, &kubuntu; has a workspace optimized specifically
for these small computers. More information on the netbook workspace can be found in
the <xref linkend="releases-netbook"/> section.
</para>
</note>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releases-netbook">
<title>&kubuntu; &distro-rev; with Plasma Netbook </title>
<para>
if you have a netbook Kubuntu will load up using the Plasma Netbook workspace.
optimized for use with netbooks and smaller, portable devices. The Kubuntu with Plasma Netbook
is a full-featured operating system that contains plenty of applications to
suit your everyday needs, with more than 20,000 other titles available to be
easily installed.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="installing">
<title>Installing &kubuntu;</title>
<para>
Installing &kubuntu; running Plasma Desktop or Plasma Netbook is exactly the
same. Both use the same install medium and graphical installer known as
<application>Ubiquity</application>.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="support">
<title>Getting Support for &kubuntu;</title>
<para>
To read more about receiving support for &kubuntu;, please view the <ulink
type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/support">&kubuntu; Support</ulink> topic.
</para>
<sect2 id="support-documentation">
<title>&kubuntu; System Documentation</title>
<para>
&kubuntu; ships with system documentation covering various topics
which provide an introduction to Kubuntu as well as configuration and
troubleshooting topics.
</para>
<para>
To view &kubuntu;'s system documentation, please view the <ulink
type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/index">&kubuntu; System Documentation
Index</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
Also shipped with &kubuntu; is KDE documentation which contains handbooks for
many of the applications installed. To view a list of the KDE documentation,
open <application>Help</application> (also known as
<application>KHelpCenter</application>) by going to &menuhelp;.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="support-bugs">
<title>Filing and reviewing bug reports</title>
<para>
To learn about filing bug reports for &kubuntu;, please view the <ulink
type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/bugs">&kubuntu; Bugs</ulink> topic.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="contribute">
<title>Contribute to &kubuntu;</title>
<para>
To read more about contributing to the &kubuntu; project, please view the <ulink
type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/contribute">Contributing to &kubuntu;</ulink>
topic.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="contact">
<title>Contacting the &kubuntu; Project Team</title>
<para>
If you are interested in contacting the &kubuntu; team, please view the <ulink
type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/contact/">Contact &kubuntu;</ulink> topic.
</para>
</sect1>
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