Is Canonical against Kubuntu (2): the bug tracking disaster

[Anton]

Pastor JW wrote:

> On Sunday 19 April 2009 5:06:49 am Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> >> while this surely is not nice, may I remind you that we are talking
>> >> about free and open source software here.
>> >>
>> >> Afaik you did not pay for it and you also did not pay for support.
>> >> So you can hardly expect to get defined problem resolution timeframes.
>> >>
>> >> Should you need better support, you might consider to use one of the
>> >> "enterprise linux" distributions that are out there, waitng for you to
>> >> buy them.
>> >
>> > Why not use Windows, then? You pay for it, you get support.
>> >
>> > The truth is, that the issue here is not money. Ubuntu is free just as
>> > Kubuntu, so why the preference by Canonical devs?
>> >
>> > I do not think that the OP was complaining that _his_issue_ was being
>> > ignored, he was complaining that KDE / Kubuntu specific issues are not
>> > be given proper attention by *buntu developers. He is right. I could
>> > mention five showstopper bugs in Kubuntu 9.04 but the distro will be
>> > released with them anyway. Why? Because the Gnome *buntu varient is
>> > ready, and they want to release them together, even though the KDE
>> > varient has less developers assigned to it. Canonical's product is
>> > Ubuntu and spinoffs such as Kubuntu Xubuntu and others must make their
>> > own strides to keep pace, if that's what they want.
>>
>> Thanks Dotan and Anton, I got it now. At least I think so.
>>
>> This indeed it a pity for the K(ubuntu) users. If this is correct,
>> apparently, KDE users are not that important for Ubuntu. Are we so few?
> 
> No, we are not so few, we are just counted a Ubuntu users is all.  Of the
> 154
> Ubuntu users I know, one ...an old Apple II user, is running Gnome.  All
> the
> rest are KDE or Xfce users.  Gnome is just too clunky to use although I DO
> like the synaptic package manager.  It works just fine in Kubuntu!  Now

Hi, agreed for synaptic manager ;-)
I prefer it too, and its the first thing I install
after having finished my kubuntu (default) install.

Not to forget the midnight Commander mc.

Bye

 Anton

> KDE4
> is a different story, that reminded me of Gnome so skipped Intrepid.  I
> may also skip Jackalope if they can't get KDE fixed.
> 
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Eberhard
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