Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

Ok, somebody should keep the distro names up-to-date there... there is
no 10.10 option!, newest is Lucid (10.04).

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
<ildefonso.camargo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>> --
>> Thomas K. Gamble
>> Research Technologist, System/Network Administrator
>> Chemical Diagnostics and Engineering (C-CDE)
>> Los Alamos National Laboratory
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>>
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