http://www.osnews.com/story/25794/Kubuntu_to_be_Sponsored_by_Blue_Systems Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:43:14 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?513631 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513631 Sadly KDE (and Qt as a whole) seems to be a second class citizen on most distros, which is a real shame as (in my opinion at least - please lets not turn this into a KDE vs GNOME flamewar!) KDE is every bit as good as the other DEs.

Let's just hope Kubuntu will be less crappy than it was when Canonical managed it. Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?513652 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513652 Does anyone know what Blue system really is? Their web page is quite simple.
http://blue-systems.com/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Trebus) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?513654 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513654 http://whois.domaintools.com/blue-systems.com
Clemens
Toennies
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07092
So lead deweloper of Netrunner OS is sponsoring Kubuntu and couple of other "KDE projects"
http://www.netrunner-os.com/kubuntu-partnership/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mrnolucas) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?513659 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513659 While I agree that KDE 3.5 was equal to, if not superior to GNOME 2.x, KDE 4.x still has issues with release QA and, last I checked, they seemed to think that "the same thing happened with earlier releases of KDE 2 and KDE 3" justifies the problem.

It used to be that, no matter what desktop I was trying, Konqueror 3.5 was my file manager and tabbed KPart harness. These days, I either use Trinity (that KDE 3.5 fork) or LXDE.

Darn shame too. KDE 4 has a ton of potential if they could just muster the focus to fix bugs and optimize for performance before they chase after each shiny new idea. Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ssokolow) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?513675 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513675 The "whois" record also talks about "IT Works GmbH".
http://www.itwu.de
http://www.itwu.de/kontakt.htmlEdited 2012-04-11 16:51 UTC Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nth_Man) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?513676 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513676 Jonathan Riddell, the main Kubuntu developer, that was a Canonical employee, will now be leaving the company after the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May and will be joining Blue Systems.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA4NTM

Kubuntu rollouts include the world's largest Linux desktop, in Brazil.
http://lwn.net/Articles/455972/
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-to-be-sponsored-by-blue-systems Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nth_Man) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?513677 http://www.osnews.com/thread?513677 About Canonical, will support Kubuntu 12.04 for 5 Years
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/12.04-lts-announce Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nth_Man) Comments