Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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On 02/07/2012 10:10 AM, 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.
> 
>>
>> KDE/Gnome package updates' download stats from Ubuntu servers might
>> give a better picture.
> 
> I didn't have much luck digging up those stats.

Not much of a scientific digging, but here are some entries from
http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_inst.gz file, starting with the heading:

#Format
#
#<name> is the package name;
#<inst> is the number of people who installed this package;
#<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly;
#<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package
#        regularly;
#<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently;
#<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough
#        information (atime and ctime were 0).
#rank name  inst vote old recent no-files

 764 ubuntu-desktop   1648341 0 0 0 1648341 (Matt Zimmerman)
2829 kubuntu-desktop   217943 0 0 0 217943 (Jonathan Riddell)
4329 xubuntu-desktop    90057 0 0 0 90057 (Xubuntu Developers)
8650 edubuntu-desktop   18096 0 0 0 18096 (Oliver Grawert)

577  gdm 1941254 80087 1855605  5217   345
2460 kdm  289248 10315 272239  6640    54

This would put Kubuntu at 13-15% of installs, though there might be more
representative stats somewhere else.

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Sarunas Burdulis
Systems Administrator
Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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