Kubuntu and Ubuntu at odds

Posted May 29, 2015 8:54 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Kubuntu and Ubuntu at odds by rsidd
Parent article: Kubuntu and Ubuntu at odds

close, they also duplicate a substantial number of Ubuntu utilities to make a functionally-equivalent one that is branded as KDE.

They also create the kubuntu install media, deciding what packages to put on it, etc.

They do a fair amount of the work that maintaining a distro from scratch would be, but benefit substantially from the packages that Ubuntu maintains and tests as well.

If it was just installing the KDE packages, how much maintenance work would be needed?