Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Thomas K Gamble <tkg at lanl.gov> wrote:
> According to Ubuntu Counter (assuming theire stats are a reasonably accurate
> representation)
>
> http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net/
>
> Kubuntu only accounts for 2% of the various Ubuntu flavor installs.

Uh.... so... we are pretty much alone for not being able to tolerate
Unity? I mean... I deeply dislike Unity.  And even though I have found
several "rough edges" on KDE, I like it.

On the other hand, I have never registered on that site... maybe we
should register to increase the numbers?

>
> Rather surprising, imho.
>
> On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 07:55:53 AM Billie Walsh wrote:
>> On 02/07/2012 06:16 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> > Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be
>> > funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat
>> > Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as
>> > Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support the projects with
>> > infrastructure. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu of course and KDE
>> > as well.
>> >
>> >
>> > http://lwn.net/Articles/479710/
>>
>> Reading down through the comments at the bottom of the article I think I
>> can agree with several of the comments. I don't claim to be any sort of
>> expert on the politics and inner workings of Canonical, but it has
>> always sort of seemed to me that Canonical has treated Kubuntu as a "red
>> headed step-child". They put it out there and didn't commit to it as
>> fully as they should if they were really serious about it.
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