Kubuntu future and the name itself

[Jim MacLeod]

On Wednesday 11 Apr 2012 11:53:41 O. Sinclair 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.
> 
> 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. Think Linux Mint rather, still ubuntu based but with a
> name that actually sort of means something.
> 
> 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?
> 
Blue Linux ..  Bluebuntu .. Blue-KDE ?

Jim