Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

[Dale Trombley]

By all means we'll miss Johnathan and his contributions but how else is
this really gonna hurt Kubuntu? I don't see cononical doing much for
Kubuntu other than giving us the great Ubuntu base, which all the other
derivatives get too.
On Feb 7, 2012 10:46 AM, "Mark Greenwood" <fatgerman at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 7 Feb 2012, at 15:10, Thomas K Gamble wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I'd agree, but I'd also rephrase that to say that what has hurt Kubuntu
> adoption is KDE. After all, Canonical are not responsible for things like
> KDE PIM, or for bug fixes, or for usability issues -  they just package
> what KDE deliver. Garbage in, garbage out.
>
> But I think what has hurt it the most is the religious adherence to a
> six-month release cycle, which has resulted in things being released long
> before they are ready for general use (anybody remember the early KDE4
> releases?). I think it's pretty ridiculous to try to stick to a release
> schedule when the software you are releasing is mostly written by
> enthusiasts in their spare time. Perhaps a more Debian-like approach, when
> coupled with the more user-friendly aspects of Kubuntu, would result in
> better take up.
>
> Mark
>
> >
> >>
> >> KDE/Gnome package updates' download stats from Ubuntu servers might
> >> give a better picture.
> >
> > I didn't have much luck digging up those stats.
> >
> > --
> > Thomas K. Gamble
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> >
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> >    Henry Kissinger
> >
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