Mark Shuttleworth just posted an Ubuntu FAQ on his wiki page. In this FAQ, he addresses some of the more controversial subjects surrounding Ubuntu, including the fork (non-) issue, whether or not Ubuntu will ever go commercial, the brown desktop color, and much more.
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Member since:Why do people keep saying switch to a KDE distro when they can install Ubuntu AND KEEP IT AND ADD KDE/KUBUNTU to it?
Relax with the hostility. I prefer Gnome, but I have no problem with a KDE fan wanting a distro that caters to KDE and pays special attention to KDE integration. Distros that play DE favorites tend to support one better than the other, Suse (despite the Novell takeover) being a good example for KDE and RHEL & Fedora being a good example for Gnome. Yes, Ubuntu has Kubuntu (which I'm tremendously impressed by), both as an installation option for vanilla Ubuntu and as a separately spun distro. But Kubuntu is a community-driven sub-project and doesn't have all the resources of Ubuntu proper, which is decidedly Gnome-centric, and if some folks would prefer something they perceive as a more KDE-centric distro for whatever reason then so be it. Why in the world does this bother you?
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Member since:"Why in the world does this bother you?"
Probably because you still didn't understand what the poster was trying to say, that you don't have to switch to Kubuntu to get KDE, you can add KDE to Ubuntu just fine.
Please read and comprehend before hitting reply, or sit down with some salt before foot tasting.
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"switch to a KDE based disto"
There's NO REASON to switch, see below.
"I myself am not a fan of Ubunut because they do not include any free(no cost) propietary formats like Adobe Acrobat Reader and Real Player,"
XPDF works and it's free. Both Adobe Acrobat Reader and Real Player can be downloaded manually off their respective sites, or is that too hard for you?
"and because the website address for my web-based POP mail from ISP has never worked in Fireox with Ubuntu, but every other distro I have tried I can access the web-based POP mail no problem in Firefox."
Sounds like a user problem, not a distro problem.
"But yes, if GNOME is the only reason for not liking Ubuntu, then definately, quit the ranting and switch distros!"
There's NO REASON to switch, KDE/Kubuntu can be added to the sources.list and after apt-get update downloaded and installed INTO UBUNTU.
Why do people keep saying switch to a KDE distro when they can install Ubuntu AND KEEP IT AND ADD KDE/KUBUNTU to it?