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Canonical To Stop Funding Kubuntu!
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Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavours.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012:
Kubuntu's lead developer Jonathan Riddell said that Canonical will no longer be funding his work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical has withdrawn support from the development of the KDE-based Kubuntu Linux desktop after seven years for commercial reasons.
Kubuntu is a derivative of Ubuntu that appeared in 2005 and differs by continuing with the KDE desktop called Plasma, instead of going with Ubuntu's Unity desktop.
Canonical has pulled the plug because Kubuntu has failed to take off commercially after seven years of plugging away. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu of course and KDE as well. Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavours such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support the projects with infrastructure.
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Riddell said that he won't be able to work on KDE bits in his work time after 12.04 and there won't be paid support for versions after 12.04.
Riddell added that they have been trying for the last seven years to create a distro to show the excellent KDE technology in its best light. And they have a lovely community now built around that vision, but it has not taken over the world commercially and shows no immediate signs of doing so.
He further said that if the community needs Kubuntu, then people have to step up and take the initiative in doing the tasks that are often poorly supported by the community process. For instance, ISO testing is a long, slow thankless task, and it is hard to get volunteers for it.
Shivangi Anand, EFYTIMES News Network
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