Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Feb 2007 20:52 UTC
Canonical Ltd., the sponsor of Ubuntu, and Linspire Inc. the developer of Linspire and Freespire, on February 8 announced a technology partnership to integrate with each other's Linux distributions. Linspire/Freespire will be based on Ubuntu, rather than Debian, and Ubuntu will integrate with Linspire's CNR package installer/updater.
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Linspire used to be based on KDE not Gnome. Will Kubuntu become Linsipire's default desktop? Will Linspire developers join Kubuntu's to make an even better kde desktop?
KDE will remain as Linspire/Freespire's desktop. According to Jonathan Riddell, Linspire will technically be considered a Kubuntu-derivative since it will be aligning itself primarily with KDE and KDE development.
If both distributions do join their development teams, that could be wonderful news for KDE, as Kubutu has consistently received less attention than Ubuntu.
Well, I'm not sure it changes much for KDE in general but I would think it's good news for Kubuntu. Despite Shuttleworth's proclamations about making Kubuntu 1st class, Jonathan is still, to the best of my knowledge anyways, the only paid KDE contributing developer on the Canonical side. Linspire has contributing KDE developers on their team so some co-operative development should hopefully trickle down to the *buntu-verse for the benefit of Kubuntu users, and vice versa.