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Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” KDE Beta Edition Debuts with KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Desktop

In this story, we’re going to take a look at the Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” KDE Beta Edition, which comes with the long-term supported KDE Plasma 5.8 desktop environment by default thanks to the collaboration with the Kubuntu team, as announced by Clement Lefebvre himself earlier this year. The Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” operating system is about to launch soon, but right now it’s in Beta stages of development, with Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, and Xfce editions all out and ready for public testing. All these variants are based on the latest Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system and ship with the Linux 4.8 kernel.

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