Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 9th Aug 2009 19:07 UTC
Earlier this month, we reported that Debian had announced a new release schedule; a freeze during December, a release some time in the first half of the following year. After outcries from the Debian community, the December freeze aspect of the plan was reversed. Since most of the ire about this situation seemed to be directed towards Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth decided to step in and offer to put several Canonical employees to work on Debian instead of Ubuntu.
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Member since:2005-07-24
...I agree fully with the comments about Kubuntu's bad shape.
I would be in favor of simply dropping Kubuntu. Leave KDE to the distros which have decided to focus upon it as their default. Which is admittedly not many. And the ones that do are not all that popular. But it makes sense to choose a DE and focus on it, without getting distracted by trying to support others.
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Member since:2005-07-06
I would be in favor of simply dropping Kubuntu.
Yeah, that's probably the best solution.
Leave KDE to the distros which have decided to focus upon it as their default.
Many distros are DE-agnostic or mabe even default to GNOME ans still have great KDE releases.
openSUSE doesn't have a default and its KDE is among the best. Fedora defaults to GNOME, but its KDE is also good.
Which is admittedly not many. And the ones that do are not all that popular. But it makes sense to choose a DE and focus on it, without getting distracted by trying to support others.
KDE doesn't need special treatment. Just shipping vanilla packages would be enough, but instead Canonical breaks them. If Kubuntu was just Ubuntu + vanilla KDE, it wouldn't be anything special, but it wouldn't also be that bad.
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2005-07-06
For good reason. It's terribly broken.
I'm the one behind the above linked Flickr set, btw, and I agree fully with the comments about Kubuntu's bad shape.