Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

[O. Sinclair]

On 10/02/12 04:04, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Bruce Bales<bbales at cox.net>  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.
>>
>> Well, try to look at the good side of this.  My only reason for abandoning
>> Kubuntu 8-04 was that it was going (or was already) out of support.  Now
>> that
>> 10-04 will no longer be supported, I can go back to 8-04 and a usable
>> version
>> of kmail.  Maybe someday I will find another useful setup with support, but
>> in the meantime I won't miss Kubuntu post 8-04 and I will still be using
>> Linux,
>> which I love.
>
> Well, to my good surprise, yesterday I updated to KDE 4.8 (using
> ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports), and kmail just started to work.  I have
> been using it all day, with no issues.
>
with "auto-completion" of email address from addressbook, not only 
"recent addresses" working? That is what made me step back to 4.7.4, 
that function went missing - and "distribution lists" also stopped 
working btw