As some of you have noted, we have recently soft-launched a brand-new Kubuntu website – and we’re excited to announce
that the entire site code is now fully open source and available on GitHub at GitHub - kubuntu-team/kubuntu.org: The Kubuntu Public Website!
This move enables wider contributions from the whole Kubuntu community. Whether you spot a typo, want to improve
accessibility, translate a page, or help shape the next design evolution, you can fork, fix, and send us a pull request.
Together we can make the official home of Kubuntu even better, faster. The previous site ran on WordPress, which always
carried a certain maintenance burden and a defacement risk. We have now switched to a static website generator (Hugo).
That means:
We can safely sleep at night
We keep our custom design
We can push new themed content whenever we need to
Lightning-fast loading speeds and almost zero server load
We chose a soft launch so we can enable features and polish the design as we go. That’s why we started with AI-generated
placeholder images – they’ve been replaced with proper Kubuntu artwork very soon.The new site already renders much faster
than the old one, it’s inherently safer without server-side scripting, and with your kind assistance we’ll have it in
tip-top shape in just days.Check out the latest commits in the public repository and follow the progress live! If you
enjoy giving back to open source, your help is more than welcome:
Report remaining issues
Submit well-crafted PRs (after syncing with our roadmap)
Translate content
Improve the theme
At the same time, the team is heads-down preparing for Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, and we’ll share a proper update as we approach
this next major milestone.
Thank you for being part of the Kubuntu family – let’s build the best Linux experience together!
I often wonder: Does there always have to be a “why” when something changes or is made use of something else either distro or website wise? I mean Kubuntu has their new website up and running, Xubuntu too. It works, looks great and even better. That’s what it’s about. People who browse on the web and find the sites don’t care with what they’ve been built.
I also think the teams have gone through the various options available and found that Hugo fits better to their needs.
If you have other thoughts, which you clearly have then please elaborate on why someone should use Astro or React. Maybe open another topic about the subject otherwise i think we’re going offtopic here.
Google is sending people to the archived website, (I can’t post a link in here, but it’s kubuntu org archives “xmlrpc.php%3Frsd.html”), instead of the main kubuntu org when searching “Kubuntu”. The banner advertises 22.04 LTS, and switching to the download page, the latest release is “Kubuntu 23.10”
I’m not an Kubuntu users, but I’m looking into installing it for someone else. But because of this, for the last few weeks, I thought kubuntu.org is depricated or something, and that I needed to go via Ubuntu Flavours for new versions. It all seemed weird and not exactly building confidence.
I don’t know if this is a random issue that the AI overlords are only bestowing upon me, or if this is more widespread. I strongly recommend to check the logs and see where google is sending people. And if possible, clearly mark the archive as such, with a banner and a link to the current website, to help catch random stragglers like myself.
Best regard from a KDE fan and former Kubuntu user (iusearchbtw), looking for a safe harbor for windows refugees
