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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. Excellent business move by astropirate · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As a Linux user, I think this is a great business move on the part of canonical.. It is very important that we have choice software... but for Linux to success, the companies backing need to have a focus.

  2. Mint 12 KDE by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Every time the subject of Ubuntu comes up on Slashdot I see a slew of comments complaining about how bad Unity is and what they've done to Gnome and how they're jumping ship for Mint I think "OK, so why not just use Kubuntu instead?", but now they've dropping funding for Kubuntu it looks like even more people will be moving over to Mint too.

    I only update to the LTS versions of Kubuntu but if Precise is going to be the last one then why bother? Mint 12 came out a few days ago so maybe I'll just move over to that instead.

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    1. Re:Mint 12 KDE by dargaud · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Yeah, I use kubuntu and set it up on every family member PC. It combines a standard UI (KDE) which isn't traumatic to ex-Windows users and the power of Ubuntu repositories. So I'm saddened by this news. I hope development keeps on.

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  3. Re:Time to move off ubuntu by jrminter · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why not give Xubuntu a shot? Might be less of a headache. I just migrated to it from Mandriva.

  4. Re:Ubuntu is the New Mac by HyperQuantum · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ubuntu: combining the inflexibility of Mac with the hardware support mess of Windows.

    Makes you wonder if this thing will ever get popular with mainstream users...

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