Announcement from www.kubuntu.de

[Daniel Carrera]

Adriano Varoli Piazza wrote:
> Yes, a strike is more like it. I don't like it. I don't care much
> about kubuntu, since I don't like KDE, and forcing Canonical to
> support them more than what they want in this way doesn't strike me as
> nice. I am not fully informed on this, I think. But from this point of
> view, if they don't have the money they should ask their users, not
> canonical. I don't see anything wrong with asking for contributions,
> or indeed with making a buck out of their free software efforts.

Another uninformed user here:  Canonical can't support everything. Part 
of what makes Ubuntu attractive is that it makes some choices of what 
packages it wants to support and then it supports those well. Sure, 
there should be room for the community to expand upon what the core 
Ubuntu provides. That's why we have Universe and Multiverse. That's also 
why we have Kubuntu and Xubuntu. But it seems unfair to then say that 
Canonical should provide the same (or similar) support for those packages.

Debian is a distro that tries to support all (free) packages more or 
less equally. This has some benefits and drawbacks. On the one hand, 
Debian has a gazillion supported packages, and it supports 12 
architectures. On the other, Debian is usually dated and less newbie 
friendly.

I'd prefer that Ubuntu stick to being Ubuntu and not become Debian. I 
manage 3 computers, two run Ubuntu and one runs Debian. When I want 
Debian-ness I pick Debian, when I want Ubuntu-ness I pick Ubuntu.

Daniel.
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