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Kubuntu Announces Commercial Support
sfcrazy writes "Kubuntu is one of those few GNULinux based distributions which brings the two leading technologies together — Ubuntu and KDE. There are quite a lot of businesses which are using this combination in their set-up. Until now there was no professional support available for Kubuntu users. To fill this gap the Kubuntu community has launched commercial support for businesses, organizations and individuals. The Kubuntu team is partnering with Emerge Open to offer this service which is called 'Kubuntu Commercial Support provided by Emerge Open'."
Oh hey, it's a meme from 10 years ago.
You can make KDE look like whatever you want, guy. I've had people ask me "what's that gtk theme" I was using.
But then you're probably one of those people still with the teletubby wallpaper and fisher-price theme on your XP machine.
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BMO
I would never install that ugly shit on any of MY computers. Unity4lyfe
Let me guess, you're an early adopter of Windows 8
That is like saying canvas and paint is ugly. If your KDE desktop is ugly, it is a reflection on you, not KDE. See also.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Ubuntu stopped giving money to Kubuntu, but Kubuntu is alive and well.
http://lwn.net/Articles/491498/rss
For those unwilling to click through:
Kubuntu to be sponsored by Blue Systems
[Distributions] Posted Apr 10, 2012 17:33 UTC (Tue) by corbet
The Kubuntu project recently lost its sponsorship from Canonical, which is pursuing its fortunes in other areas. The project has now announced that it will be sponsored by Blue Systems instead. "Blue Systems sponsors a number of KDE projects and will encourage Kubuntu to follow the same successful formula as it has always had - community led, KDE focused, Ubuntu flavour." The actual extent of this sponsorship is not clear at this time.
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BMO
Ah! Thanks for the . . . Enlightenment.
Since I haven't used either environment in so many years, I'd just construed the news back then that KDE was totally on the outs. Didn't realize it was just Canonical sponsorship.
'Kubuntu Commercial Support provided by Emerge Open'
A lot of long nights and creative thought went into that.
Front page? There are no other pages!
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
I would never install that ugly shit on any of MY computers. Unity4lyfe
You picked the wrong place fanboy, go back to OMGUbuntu.
>Dissing OS/2
Ackshully, every single one of the Windows interfaces has been inferior to Workplace Shell.
Having used such in the past, I can tell you that there are definitely things you could do in WPS easily, but are impossible to do in Windows. Going from WPS to Win95 and above (even including everything post-vista) the Windows interfaces seem klunky in comparison.
Heck, even the command line terminal in Windows is inferior to everything out there. And don't give me any of that "but PowerShell" crap. OS/2 had Rexx.
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BMO
Actually, that will only install the default KDE with none of the Kubuntu defaults. Whether you want that or not is up to the user.
apt-get install kde-full kubuntu-desktop
installs the whole magilla.
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BMO
Who cares if KDE or whatever desktop is "ugly"? The last thing the Linux desktop needs at this point is more designers putting their stamp on things -- just give me software that is finished and works and I'll be happy.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
No idea why you think being closest to Windows is a good thing. "Klumsy and Klunky" is a pretty good characterization for what Windows thinks is a window manager.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
... just give me software that is finished and works ...
That's adorable.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Gnome is much better, it was always intuitive and the closest thing to a Windows GUI.
Gnome is basically a copy of OSX these days. KDE is much more similar to Windows.
KDE is about the only fully integrated and configurable desktop experience that's available on Linux.
It might be Gnome had it's years with community traction but that's in the past, KDE and Kubuntu are the present.
That said I quite see the attraction of a Unity, E17 or LXDE, but they are neither fully integrated nor particularly configurable.
The Open Suse and Sabayon versions of KDE are nice but are suffering the lack of the Debian package system.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Rebecca Black Linux
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rebeccablackos/
Hannah Montana Linux...
http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/
My Little Pony Gnome theme...
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/?content=144562
Unfortunately, Mattel is serious about its trademarks, so Barbie Linux doesn't exist (yet)(at least publicly)
Be afraid. Very afraid.
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BMO
Uhh, KDE is an upstream project not only available as Kubuntu but also very successful with distro's like Sabayon and Open Suse.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
The Slackware version of KDE is very nice as well, and it does not 'suffer' from lack of Debian package management. Really, package management causes more suffering than it alleviates.
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Friends don't let friends enable ecmascript.
There are plenty of Windows shell replacements abd have been for more than a decade. That you're ignorant of them is your own fault.
I still remember when kde2 came out. There was all this talk about everything as a file, like plan9, but in a user oriented fashion. KDE4 did away with all that, but kept the idea of user functionality. If for you functionality is having a button in a specific place, or having settings preordained and hidden, then KDE is not for you. KDE allows for some amazing things, like workspaces. (I gaurantee that this concept will be picked up eventually by the major players as something they came up with)
KDE has in most cases at least two ways do do everything, if you can't find it in one place it's in another. This is a pain to some people, but to someone trying to figure out the system, it means that they have at leas two chances to figue it out before they go to the forums.
KDE is by far the most configuable DE bar none. Where other systems have hacks to change things KDE gives it to you on a platter. There is almost nothing that you cannot change to suit your needs.
While I understand the desire to have a simple desktop setup, any power user who has had more that a couple months with KDE will tell you, there is hardly any DE that can stand up to it for useability.
once more into the breach
While it may not be following KDE's lead, I did find it interesting that LXDE recently decided to co-opt Qt as its development platform and partner w/ Razor-qt. Also, they will be among the first to support Wayland, and have been around longer than any of the others. Which is why they were the only choice on PC-BSD for a while, and are now the default.
A little off topic I know but I just needed to say that I miss the old themes.org web site.
I've got a VM running Windows 3.11. It's finished, and for what it does, it works. Want me to ship you the VMDK?
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I want to remind everyone that the support Canonical provided was a *single part-time programmer*, and that it's this that is now funded by Blue Systems. Definitely very nice support, and appreciated, but it's not the kind of support that makes-or-breaks a project.
In fact ... could we get the Post button right next to the article title on the front-page, please?
The nice thing about this deal is that Emerge Open is a non-profit company so any money made goes back into Kubuntu to fund developer travel or hardware. Remember you can always donate too :)
Care to explain what this is? Googled for it and didn't get any wiser. You mean like virtual desktops? KDE Activities? Something else?
http://www.kde.org/workspaces/
once more into the breach
I used Kubuntu for a year before switching to OpenSUSE.
I don't find the yast to be a limitation at all, and it has much cleaner integration with the underlying OS, especially the networkig and service management.
"What? Can you actually be serious? Most of the endemic problems in the Windows world can be attributed to the lack of proper package management outside of OS updates."
Perfectly serious. Can you be seriously advocating the addition of a major system to gnu in order to solve a problem *on windows?*
Which problem on windows, btw, has nothing to do with package management. Rather it is a result of lacking support for library versioning. Something *nix systems have dealt with properly for decades.
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Friends don't let friends enable ecmascript.
Seconded, when I installed Debian Wheezy for the first time, it took me about five minutes to get rid of GNOME 3 and set up MATE. It works. No garbage. I know where the things I need are. I see no reason to use any other desktop environment for the foreseeable future.
So from your link, you can switch between a desktop and a netbook mode? That's it?
You get more pages in the DLC (or if you have a season pass).
http://soylentnews.org/~tibman
For all the flak the Ubuntu project gets, Kubuntu is one of those rare gems. I use it as my main OS and there's nothing I'd rather use. I'm thrilled to see it get more support. I know there are Ubuntu fanboys but I'll confess, I'm a Kubuntu fanboy.
Unlike Ubuntu, Kubuntu hasn't tried to slip Amazon crapware into their OS. KDE 4 remains a beautiful UI unlike the hideous messes that are Unity and Gnome 3. Unlike MINT, Kubuntu doesn't theme everything or screw with the default settings for software.
Unlike SuSE, Slackware, Gentoo or Fedora, Kubuntu also has Debian's apt-get which I consider to be the most straightforward and effective package management system around.
Why not use straight Debian with KDE? Debian's a supurb server OS but their cult-like devotion to only using FOSS software and drivers makes setting up graphics cards, wifi cards and getting Flash, DVD and MP3 support annoying. I also have to find 3rd party repositories for the normal version of Firefox and WINE. Debian also has a slower release cycle and I like getting shiny new things. Almost every support article for Ubuntu applies to Kubuntu just as well. As awesome as Debian's community support is, Ubuntu's is even larger. Don't get me wrong, Debian is great but I still prefer Kubuntu.
Say what you will about Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Lubuntu (the LXDE variant) are both excellent systems.
The Gospel according to lolcat
Better yet:
Biebian