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Kubuntu LTS and KDE4Kubuntu LTS and KDE4Posted Dec 29, 2007 17:14 UTC (Sat) by stock (guest, #5849)Parent article: Kubuntu LTS and KDE4
It should be known that the top-tier US Software Corporations, who today apparently need to control the directions in which the Linux Desktop development is heading, have put KDE on their wanted for destruction target list long time ago : "Community: Why Is Novell Chopping Its SUSE Linux Workstation and Desktop Product Line?" http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2005-11-04... "Not SuSE but KDE got killed " http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2005-11-04... So who is behind Canonical Ltd. anyway? Is it only the remarkable outer space worthy Mark Shuttleworth? Or are some unknown fat cats from the Software Industry pulling the strings here? Shuttleworth is a capable man no-doubt, but is (from wikipedia: ) "Shuttleworth founded Thawte in 1995, which specialised in digital certificates and Internet security and then sold it to VeriSign in December 1999, earning R 3.5 billion (about 575 million US dollars at the time)." not really a too hyped-up fairy tale? Excuse for the conspiracy tone here, but when KDE is on the line, the old flame stories between KDE and the other Desktop environments like GNOME, _do_ revive their validity. Robert -- Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist crashrecovery.org stock@stokkie.net
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Kubuntu LTS and KDE4 Posted Dec 29, 2007 18:05 UTC (Sat) by pzb (guest, #656) [Link] The opinions on LinuxToday you linked to are more than two years old. Today, it is clear that SUSE has continued to release new products in the Linux desktop product line (rather than kill it as one story suggests). SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, with KDE and GNOME, seems to be doing well, based on the news over the last few months about various hardware companies preloading it. As for your comment on LT, which you linked to, I would suggest that openSUSE has a top-notch KDE desktop. The openSUSE project manager is a KDE hacker: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070813#feature Lastly, if you follow Ubuntu at all, you know Mark truely runs it. He was involved with Debian before and is the SABDFL (Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life) for Ubuntu.
Kubuntu LTS and KDE4 Posted Dec 30, 2007 15:28 UTC (Sun) by Thue (subscriber, #14277) [Link] It should be known that the top-tier US Software Corporations, who today apparently need to control the directions in which the Linux Desktop development is heading, have put KDE on their wanted for destruction target list long time agoThat sounds too much as a conspiracy theory. As long as the KDE project don't commit to maintain their last stable branch for 3 years, I can understand that distros do not want to make long term releases based on it. So in my view the main responsibility for the absense of LTS Kubuntu is the KDE project, who can hardly be accused of being in a conspiracy against itself :P.
Kubuntu LTS and KDE4 Posted Jan 5, 2008 11:19 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link] Point is, of course, that the excuse by Canonical to not support KDE because they won't maintain it for 3 years is rather lame. Novell will have an Enterprise Desktop supporting KDE 3.5.8 until 2011, so why can't Canonical? The KDE project will support KDE 3.5.x for quite a while still, we're gonna see a 3.5.9 release soon, and it will even have new features...
Kubuntu LTS and KDE4 Posted Jan 1, 2008 14:38 UTC (Tue) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964) [Link] @stock "Community: Why Is Novell Chopping Its SUSE Linux Workstation and Desktop Product Line?" http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2005-11-04... " The factual innaccuracies made in your talkback, really undermine your point. The version of history there, is perhaps slightly better researched than the ZDnet FUDicles that linuxtoday.com regularly link to.
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