Do You Agree That Kubuntu Should be Renamed - If So, What Name?

[SteveRiley]

I thought that Canonical was starting to support Kubuntu more. I read an article in Linux Format about Kubuntu being a big deal for enterprise use or something and Canonical decided to support it. Was my assumption wrong?

Canonical dropped financial support of Kubuntu when it told Jonathan Riddell that it would no longer pay him to support Kubuntu. He was the only Canonical employee working on the project. Soon after that he quit. Eventually Blue Systems agreed to support continued Kubuntu development and hired Jonathan and several other Kubuntu developers. Emerge Open in the UK offers paid commercial support.

[charles052]

Canonical dropped financial support of Kubuntu when it told Jonathan Riddell that it would no longer pay him to support Kubuntu. He was the only Canonical employee working on the project. Soon after that he quit. Eventually Blue Systems agreed to support continued Kubuntu development and hired Jonathan and several other Kubuntu developers. Emerge Open in the UK offers paid commercial support.

Thanks. I guess I read the article wrong. I was waiting or the bathroom when I read it.

[anamnesis]

Um, how about.... iKDEa? Nah, too Swedish. Suddenly, I've got a hankering for furniture store meatballs. BRB!

Why not KuBlue? 1. As long as Blue Systems supports the project financially it deserves a name like this. 2. It's short. 3. It's a nice rhyme.

[woodsmoke]

anamnesis....

I like it! uh oh........that is it's death knell! lol

no, it does have a certain "ring" to it..

..sleighbells ring, are ya listnin!?



wooddingalingsmoke

[richb]

Sounds too much like kaplop, and brings up some negative images.

[charles052]

Why not KuBlue? 1. As long as Blue Systems supports the project financially it deserves a name like this. 2. It's short. 3. It's a nice rhyme.

I like KuBlue. Sounds pretty good to me.

[woodsmoke]

lol
Kinda like when Chevrolet was selling the Chevy "Nova" down in Mexico, their FIRST attempt at marketing "outside the country"......

Didn't sell......

They could NOT understand why! ?

And then one of the locals told them that in Spanish............ No va.... meana........."no go"!

woodsmoke

[dequire]

I think the Kubuntu Dev team should merge with Blue System's Netrunner OS and keep the Netrunner OS name. I really like it! Personally, I'm not a big fan of any name starting with a "K". That's been overdone and overkilled for a long time now, IMHO

[woodsmoke]

if I had to choose a distro by moderators I vote we keep the best ones! .... err sorry we already have the best ones!

woodjustsayinsmoke

[SteveRiley]

how to merge assimilate the characters of the moderators

Fixed that for ya

[anamnesis]

Don't forget KDE is quite popular among German-speaking developers and users, KuBlue sounds in German like it has something to do with a cow... (Eine Kuh)

Well, in fact "Kubuntu" sounds in German like a coloured cow (bunt=coloured, "bunte Kuh") :-)

[NoWorries]

I have been interested in the alternative names, and while I like BlueLinOS, which I think is unpopular, the alternative that I do like is a variant on KuBlue which is BlueKu as it does not start with a K.

I think that what sets "Kubuntu" apart from the rest of the KDE distro's is that it is very stable and it is very easy to get the latest packages.

This is very useful if you are surrounded by M$ devotees who are very fast to criticize Linux. Just the other day I had one instance where I was sent a word document and the pdf version. This was done in case I could not read the word file correctly. I pointed out to the sender that he was using a proprietary font, Calibra, and all I had to do was save his doc attachment and change the font to a standard font such as Arial or Times Roman.

[SteveRiley]

BlueKu

Gesundheit!

[vinnywright]

BlueKu

IDK ,,,,,,,

is not the renaming talk because we may have to leave the Ubuntu base ?

if so keeping the uafter the K dose not compute Will ,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,maby BlueDE for the bluesystems and DE for the DE in KDE & Desktop Environmen,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,OOOoooooo...........O and DEbian as well ...........that was the consensus of the logical new base right ?

VINNY

[oshunluvr]

I like KDEBlue. Keeps KDE, DEB and adds the Blue.

Kay Dee Blue