Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Feb 2012 09:58 UTC, submitted by gogothebee
This shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Jonathan Riddell, lead developer of the Kubuntu project and the only person paid by Canonical to work on the KDE variant of the popular distribution, has announced that after the 12.04 release, Canonical will no longer be funding him, effectively putting Kubuntu on the same level as other Ubuntu variants like Xubuntu.
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RE[3]: Exactly the opposite of Linux Mint
by lemur2 on Tue 7th Feb 2012 23:30
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"Netrunner 4.1 actually looks pretty sweet to me. "
Netrunner is a derivative of Kubuntu so they depend on a healthy Kubuntu the same as Linux Mint KDE does.
Netrunner is a derivative of Kubuntu so they depend on a healthy Kubuntu the same as Linux Mint KDE does.
It depends on Canonical's repositories, sure. AFAIK one of the few Kubuntu-written packages in those repositories is the Muon package manager. The majority of the work that Kubuntu does, I believe, is to prepare and check the distribution ISOs.
Both Linux Mint KDE and Netrunner do that for their own ISOs.
KDE itself is written by the KDE project team.
http://dot.kde.org/
http://www.planetkde.org/
Nothing to do with Canonical or Kubuntu.
Having said all this, I'm not actually sure if Kubuntu itself is all that much affected by this development anyway:
http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/how-kubuntu-did-not-chang...
For those who have not yet read about it, let me quickly recap the situation. Up until now Kubuntu was a Canonical supported flavor of Ubuntu. This essentially means that you can buy a support contract from Canonical to help you with your Kubuntu infrastructure. Every once in a while Canonical would stamp ‘LTS’ on a Kubuntu release to indicate that they would support this release for 3 or 5 of years to come (delivering security and major bug fixes primarily). The upcoming 12.04 will be the last release for which Canonical offers these services. As a direct consequence Jonathan Riddell, a good friend of mine and fearless leader of Kubuntu, will work on other technology during work hours.
You might have noticed that I was writing a lot about Canonical just now, and the reason for this is that the change mostly is about Canonical and not Kubuntu.
Kubuntu is and always has been a mostly community driven project. To give you an idea what mostly means in this case: out of the 25 people who notably contributed in the past year, 1 person was employed by Canonical to do so (i.e. 4% of general Kubuntu work was financed by Canonical). Please do not get me wrong though. Jonathan is a great developer and does a considerable amount of work, particularly in those areas where the community currently lacks motivation, hence some workflow revision is in order to make the ‘new’ Kubuntu equally efficient.
You might have noticed that I was writing a lot about Canonical just now, and the reason for this is that the change mostly is about Canonical and not Kubuntu.
Kubuntu is and always has been a mostly community driven project. To give you an idea what mostly means in this case: out of the 25 people who notably contributed in the past year, 1 person was employed by Canonical to do so (i.e. 4% of general Kubuntu work was financed by Canonical). Please do not get me wrong though. Jonathan is a great developer and does a considerable amount of work, particularly in those areas where the community currently lacks motivation, hence some workflow revision is in order to make the ‘new’ Kubuntu equally efficient.
For a personal, user-owned desktop system, either Netrunner or Linux Mint KDE have possibly better default package selections anyway.
Edited 2012-02-07 23:33 UTC
RE[4]: Exactly the opposite of Linux Mint
by Soulbender on Wed 8th Feb 2012 09:15
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RE[3]: Exactly the opposite of Linux Mint
by cdude on Wed 8th Feb 2012 12:10
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Member since:2008-09-21
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"Netrunner 4.1 actually looks pretty sweet to me. "
Netrunner is a derivative of Kubuntu so they depend on a healthy Kubuntu the same as Linux Mint KDE does.