Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" released [LWN.net]

Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" released

Posted Oct 25, 2007 22:57 UTC (Thu) by andybruk (subscriber, #31794)
In reply to: Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" released by mikov
Parent article: Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" released

If you think ubuntu is better tested but you need kubuntu, install ubuntu, and then install
the kubuntu-desktop package. You can then run all your KDE apps through Ubuntu.

(Log in to post comments)

Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" released

Posted Oct 26, 2007 18:36 UTC (Fri) by mikov (subscriber, #33179) [Link]

Installing hundreds of megabytes of Gnome packages, only to enable upgrading  KDE, is not any
more acceptable than applying the manual workarounds for this problem. 

If Kubuntu can't be upgraded independently, it should not be offered as a separate
distribution. Of course in that case users who require KDE would turn to completely different
distros, and Canonical probably doesn't want that. You can't eat your cake and have it too;
that is - you can't attract KDE users without actually supporting KDE.