Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

[Thomas K Gamble]

On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 09:44:55 AM Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
> On 02/07/2012 09:27 AM, Thomas K Gamble 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.
> 
> I wouldn't assume much of a representation to the stats there. And the
> latest is for Lucid... KDE4 has progressed quite a bit since then.

True, it's not the best data since it's voluntary reporting and not many 
participate.  Linux counter is not much better at about 6.4% of the Ubuntu 
flavor installs. https://linuxcounter.net/distributions/stats.html

Just theorizing as to their rationalization.  Usage vs cost of support.

Personnaly, I think there'd be wider usage if they put a little more effort 
into it.  The lack of support (for the user bases concerns) and attention to 
useability issues is what has hurt kubuntu adoption.

> 
> KDE/Gnome package updates' download stats from Ubuntu servers might
> give a better picture.

I didn't have much luck digging up those stats.

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Thomas K. Gamble
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Chemical Diagnostics and Engineering (C-CDE)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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