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Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding

Posted by Unknown on from the not-kool-man dept.

LinuxScribe writes "An announcement on the Kubuntu-devel mailing list tells the sad story: Canonical is pulling funding for in-house developers to work on the KDE-based Kubuntu flavor. Canonical now seems committed to its single vision of a GNOME-based Unity as a desktop and other Ubuntu flavors will now have to rely on community support and some infrastructure from Canonical."

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  1. There goes the other leg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you've shot yourself in both legs... you're out of legs... Nice going Canonical.

    1. Re:There goes the other leg by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Funny

      they're an ass, so they have 4 legs.

      and no hands. but they do have a big mouth.

      --
      world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
  2. Does it matter? by MrHanky · · Score: 3, Funny

    From what I remember from Kubuntu, most of their tweaks to KDE just make it inferior to the vanilla version (for instance: you need to click the tabs in the launcher menu instead of just mousing over them, which is unpleasant). Is there any reason to use Kubuntu instead of just about any other KDE based distro?

  3. What next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Drop support for Ubuntu?