Status of Xubuntu Support

[Adam Miller]

According to polls on the forums, xubuntu is almost as commonly used as
kubuntu ... I can't say if it is accurate or not, but someone had to vote
for us to make it so.

Yes Jani, that clears alot up.. thank you.

-Adam

On 1/11/07, Vincent <imnotb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It would probably be a milestone to gather a user base large enough to be
> "officially supported" :D
>
> On 1/11/07, Cody Somerville < cody.somerville at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jani: Is it a goal of ours to become "officially supported" like the
> > other two derivatives?
> >
> > On 1/11/07, Jani Monoses < jani.monoses at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The term supported is vague and this leads to misunderstandings.
> > >
> > > The dev quoted by Cody, heno (Henrik Nilssen Omma) was right:
> > > xubuntu is supported by sharing the same archive as the 3 main
> > > variants,
> > >   by having its developers in MOTU and/or ubuntu-core-dev, by
> > > providing
> > > ISO build facilities and not least by 'unofficial' good will from many
> > > canonical devs who take xubuntu issues in consideration when working
> > > on
> > > u/k/edubuntu specific stuff.
> > >
> > > What it does not mean is financial backing from Canonical apart from
> > > bandwidth and the implicit developer time their employees spend on
> > > Xubuntu specific stuff. So no 24/7 commercial support for customers or
> > > pressed CDs.
> > >
> > > And this makes a lot of sense from their POV as long as xubuntu has a
> > > relatively small community (distrowatch is a misleading metric) and
> > > they
> > > want to keep focused.
> > >
> > > So having daily images by no means makes xubuntu supported. For
> > > instance
> > > those dailies could be broken AFAIK since there are no people testing
> > > them regularly.That would be risky to support.
> > >
> > > The best way you can make xubuntu better is by contributing your time
> > > and not wait for canonical or someone else to bear all the costs.
> > >
> > > I hope this clears it up.
> > >
> > > Jani
> > >
> > >
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