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<article id="welcome">
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>Welcome to &kubuntu;</title>
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>This document provides a brief overview of &kubuntu; to be read prior to or after installation. </para>
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<sect1 id="thank-you">
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>Welcome and Thank You</title>
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>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>
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>To read more about &kubuntu;, please view the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/about"
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>About &kubuntu;</ulink
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>To read more about the &kubuntu; Desktop, please view the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/desktop"
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>&kubuntu; Desktop</ulink
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>&kubuntu; Releases</title>
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>&kubuntu; currently has two types of releases available for download. For more information on the releases, please select a link below: </para>
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<sect2 id="releases-desktop">
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>&kubuntu; &distro-rev;</title>
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>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>
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>Have a netbook?</title>
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>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>
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<sect2 id="releases-netbook">
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>&kubuntu; &distro-rev; with Plasma Netbook </title>
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>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>
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<sect1 id="installing">
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>Installing &kubuntu;</title>
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>Installing &kubuntu; running Plasma Desktop or Plasma Netbook is exactly the same. Both use the same install medium and graphical installer known as <application
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>Ubiquity</application
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>Getting Support for &kubuntu;</title>
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>To read more about receiving support for &kubuntu;, please view the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/support"
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>&kubuntu; Support</ulink
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<sect2 id="support-documentation">
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>&kubuntu; System Documentation</title>
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>&kubuntu; Kubuntu ships with system documentation covering various topics which provide an introduction to Kubuntu as well as configuration and troubleshooting topics. </para>
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>To view &kubuntu;'s system documentation, please view the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/index"
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>&kubuntu; System Documentation Index</ulink
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>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
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> (also known as <application
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>KHelpCenter</application
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>) by going to &menuhelp;. </para>
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<sect2 id="support-bugs">
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>Filing and reviewing bug reports</title>
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>To learn about filing bug reports for &kubuntu;, please view the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/bugs"
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>&kubuntu; Bugs</ulink
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<sect1 id="contribute">
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>Contribute to &kubuntu;</title>
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>To read more about contributing to the &kubuntu; project, please view the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/contribute"
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>Contributing to &kubuntu;</ulink
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>Contacting the &kubuntu; Project Team</title>
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>If you are interested in contacting the &kubuntu; team, please view the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/contact/"
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>Contact &kubuntu;</ulink
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