Ex-Kubuntu maintainer and renowned KDE developer Jonathan Riddell was proud to announce the availability of the KDE Neon operating system on Docker, the open-source application container engine.
KDE Neon is currently the only GNU/Linux distribution allowing users to enjoy the newest KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment, as well as KDE Frameworks and Applications software suite as soon as they’re out. If you’re a bleeding-edge user and love KDE, then KDE Neon is the distro you need to use in 2017.
There are two editions of KDE Neon, for users and developers. While the first contains the latest stable versions of the KDE technologies mentioned above, the latter lets users, and especially devs, test drive the development versions of them, but it requires one to either set up a dual boot environment or install it in a virtual machine.
Introducing the Beta preview of KDE Neon on Docker
For this type of setups, there are containers, and Docker is the number one app container engine for Linux users. That’s why Jonathan Riddell is proud to announce the Beta preview of KDE Neon images on Docker, which are freely accessible as we speak from https://hub.docker.com/u/kdeneon/.
“Docker containers are a lightweight way to create a virtual system running on top of your normal Linux install but with its own filesystem and other rules to stop it getting in the way of your OS. They are insanely popular now for server deployment but I think they work just as well for checking out desktop and other UI setups,” said Riddell.
Again, the new KDE Neon Docker images are here only for developers and tech-savvy users who know what they’re doing when test driving development releases of upcoming KDE software. So go ahead and give it a try, it should save you a lot of time testing to see if that bug fix worked or not.