Don't change the name, just keep on improving the product! ... And yes, advertising on TV would be a real "sales" booster but probably too expensive. We need to keep Kubuntu at the same low price. Sent from my XOOM Android Tablet <div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 11, 2012 1:35 PM, "Jim MacLeod" <<a href="mailto:trym.side@blueyonder.co.uk">trym.side@blueyonder.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Wednesday 11 Apr 2012 11:53:41 O. Sinclair wrote: > It seems exciting times are coming to Kubuntu as from release 12.10 > there will be a new corporate sponsor, namely Blue Systems. This was on > Planet KDE, written by Jonathan Riddell: > > <a href="http://blogs.kde.org/node/4565" target="_blank">http://blogs.kde.org/node/4565</a> > > In an earlier posting Jonathan mentioned the thought of changing name of > the distro since it will not be as tied up to Ubuntu as before. > > I kind of support that - where as Ubuntu is a word in a language and has > a meaning, Kubuntu (and Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al) does not in themselves > mean anything. Think Linux Mint rather, still ubuntu based but with a > name that actually sort of means something. > > I am not sure if Jonathan was serious or just going wild that day but I > think it is not a bad idea. What does the list think? > Blue Linux .. Bluebuntu .. Blue-KDE ? Jim -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>