Q: Why does Kubuntu exist?

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> Hullos!
>
> In my recent wave of thinking about Kubuntu and how to make it clearer what
> exactly we are doing, I came to wonder why Kubuntu actually exists.
>
> Now, let me explain what I mean by that. Every project (every useful one
> anyway) is there to solve some problem or improve something, simply put a
> general justification for spending time on it. Kubuntu, being a useful
> project,
> must have some general justificaiton of existance, some problem, desire or
> similar.
>
> What I'd like to find out is exactly what Kubuntu is supposed to archive,
> and
> why other OS or distributions failed at it. Not so much by how we want to
> archive it or by what means we (want to) measure the successfulness of
> this.
>
> If everyone writes a couple of lines (some would call this brainstorming
> ;)),
> it might be easier to find a general definition as to why Kubuntu is
> existing
> and why it is good that it is existing.
>
> Thanks.
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> Harald Sitter
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At one time I thought the goals was to make Kubuntu the very best KDE distro
as close to core  KDE as possible, that Kubuntu was a close to vanilla KDE
as possible.  Howe I think this has since changed a lot of it due to Kubuntu
moving closer to a core OS for Canonical it is moving to a KDE version of
Ubuntu, with KDE as the core (including things like Ayatana, possibly a
Kubuntu One, etc)

It's not just KDE on top of Ubuntu though, I've tried several other distros
and it seems like KDE is an afetrthought where this is not the case with
Kubuntu.

It's late so I hope this makes sense
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