Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu [LWN.net]

Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu

Posted Feb 7, 2012 22:25 UTC (Tue) by th0ma7 (guest, #24698)
Parent article: Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu

To me Kubuntu was the only "enterprise ready" desktop available to compete against Microsoft. We use it in our 24/7 operations on more than 200 workstations accross the country.

Not that other desktops ain't good but they are just more and more tablet-like desktops. If I get this right, only the Unity desktop will now be considered officially supported as of post-12.04 release? Clearly that won't be a potential desktop replacement at all in our day to day usage...

What's left? Most probably moving back to debian to get a proper level of support for KDE desktop is the most "natural" thing to do?

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Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu

Posted Feb 8, 2012 20:34 UTC (Wed) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322) [Link] (2 responses)

A couple of the entirely community-supported Ubuntu derivatives (Edubuntu and Xubuntu) are offering LTS for 12.04; I don't see why that would have to be different for Kubuntu (which will also be LTS for 12.04) in the future. There's no doubt that Jonathan was able to do a great deal by working on it full-time, but even without that it still has a very strong team.

Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu

Posted Feb 8, 2012 23:43 UTC (Wed) by th0ma7 (guest, #24698) [Link] (1 responses)

Perhaps but it becomes harder to sell to higher management....

Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu

Posted Feb 11, 2012 13:49 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

Use SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (offers KDE as option). Then you are ACTUALLY using an enterprise product... ;-)

Or use openSUSE, if you're OK with upgrading every ~20 months.