Long awaited, finally here: the brand new Kubuntu 9.10 aka Karmic Koala is out and ready for download. It comes with KDE 4.3.2 and, of course, a brand new Amarok 2.2 
Check out the release notes and download the ISO here: 
Congratulations and well done, Kubuntu community!
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How does the sound system go as far as running multiple applications that require it? I am using a cheap Logitech USB headset. This was one of the things that really annoyed me.
In my experience with Kubuntu 9.04 the default backends didn’t work properly. For example it recognizes my Logitech USB headset, and places that as one of the preferred devices in the multimedia configuration panel. My chipset is Intel and is listed as HDA Intel. When I have both Amarok and SMPlayer open one has no sound. The one who got started last is the usual loser in this battle. So I have to close one for the other one to have sound working again. It’s like one app will hog the entire sound system and doesn’t share it with the rest.
It has a PulseAudio listed there too. I read that this is the only way for it to work while you have many applications that uses sound (notifications, music, video) all at the same time. It did work (Thank God!) but I had other PulseAudio packages installed first before I got it to work properly. Not too hard though.
I would prefer to point you to one of the support medias available for Kubuntu: you can choose between #kubuntu on irc.freenode.net, the kubuntu-users mailing list or the forums at http://kubuntuforums.net. I don’t think a blog is the right place for such a question
FWIW: if you only use the KDE desktop and no Gnome application that needs sound, you are better of without pulseaudio, KDE doesn’t need it, since Phonon and alsa can handle sound well enough. The only reason I can imagine to use pulseaudio would be if you need sound over a network.