Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

[Basil Chupin]

On 08/02/12 10:30, Ryan Gauger 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/
>>
> I am sorry about this. Canonical did treat Kubuntu as though it was 
> higher (which it was in my opinion) than any other Ubuntu derivative. 
> In my opinion, Kubuntu is the best Linux distribution that uses KDE by 
> default. KDE in my opinion is beautiful, and with the OS X Lion 
> default space wallpaper, it looks as attractive as OS X Lion. No other 
> desktop environment (or distribution) is as beautiful as KDE or 
> Kubuntu either.


You like this?:

http://picpaste.com/wallpaper1-yUaQhpKx.jpg

or this one?:

http://picpaste.com/wallpaper2-SJaVwQQD.jpg

KDE desktop certainly (KDE 4.8 in fact) - but *not* Kubuntu.

BC

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