Kubuntu future and the name itself

[Loïc Grobol]

On 11 April 2012 11:53, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems exciting times are coming to Kubuntu as from release 12.10 there
> will be a new corporate sponsor, namely Blue Systems. This was on Planet
> KDE, written by Jonathan Riddell:
>
> http://blogs.kde.org/node/4565
>
> In an earlier posting Jonathan mentioned the thought of changing name of the
> distro since it will not be as tied up to Ubuntu as before.
>
It will still be tied to Ubuntu. I don't have any actual figures, but
I came to Kubuntu from Ubuntu because GNOME was bugging me, and I
expect the same from other users. Ubuntu is the leader for desktop
distros and is a starting point for many new Linuxeiros. It would be
foolish to dismiss this way of getting new users.?
> I kind of support that - where as Ubuntu is a word in a language and has a
> meaning, Kubuntu (and Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al) does not in themselves mean
> anything.
They do mean Ubuntu with KDE, Ubuntu with xfce…
> Think Linux Mint rather, still ubuntu based but with a name that
> actually sort of means something.
>
Assuming that Kubuntu has no meaning, what does that change?
> I am not sure if Jonathan was serious or just going wild that day but I
> think it is not a bad idea. What does the list think?
>
Well, I think you know what I think at least ;)

Cheers,
Loïc.


-- 
Loïc Grobol.

M1 Mathématiques AMA. Faculté des sciences, Orléans La Source.
M1 Linguistique LAASTIC. Faculté de lettres, langues et sciences
humaines, Orléans La Source.