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

[oshunluvr]

Geez, he acted like you guys were talking about his mother. Last time I checked, KFN didn't support that sort of censorship.

[NoWorries]

Please move on, stop bashing Ubuntu/Canonical.

If we are bashing Canonical, then evidence of what "outsiders" think can be found in this comparison of openSUSE 13.1 vs Ubuntu 13.10: a friendly match. I think this comparison was using OpenSUSE's KDE desktop versus Ubuntu's Unity desktop. Naturally SUSE got more points than Ubuntu, ie 8 for OpenSUSE 13.1 to 4 for Ubuntu 13.10.

In this comparison the comment is made

Canonical has strained relationship with Debian in the early days, they have stained relationship with Gnome, Banshee, KDE, Xorg (Wayland), FSF and lately EFF also joined this list.

Except for the Dash online integration I don’t remember any incident when anyone from the open source community attacked Canonical or Ubuntu. It was always an attack from Canonical – whether it was the email sent to openSUSE developers after the Microsoft deal, or ‘pissing’ on Wayland, demanding more cut from Banshee, assault on SystemD, assault on Red Hat, pricking KDE developers or belief that since Intel is now a competitor of Ubuntu (due to Tizen), they did not accept XMir patches.

All of this takes Ubuntu/Canonical further from the open source community and alienates them – no wonder why no one from the open source community came forward to endorse Ubuntu Edge.

These issueshave already been made on this forum and it is because of these issues, I started this post. Time will tell if SABDFL's decisions succeed or not. I continue to hope that we move forward and that a renamed "Kubuntu" is more readily chosen for reviews and comparisons.

[woodsmoke]

how about:

Klatou Deklado Elekto

which, in medieval scientific latin means:

one desk elect.

or Kinemetic Diamante Emprise

or

moving glittering undertaking


woodsmoke

[NoWorries]

I am not sure that a name with 3 words is appropriate, let alone a sentence to rename Kubuntu.

After all, the Africans seem to be more sophisticated in that, as I understand it, the phrase: 'I am what I am because of who we all are' means ubuntu. Is there some other language where there is a single word to encapsulate your phrases 'one desk elect.' or 'moving glittering undertaking'.

Thanks for spending time to find an alternative name.

[SteveRiley]

Dude. All in one day? LOL

[woodsmoke]

LOL, I wasn't really serious about them, I was just trying to lighten the thread a little.. they refer to a certain film! lol But they have "K" in them! lol

woodsmoke

[woodsmoke]

I thought of these while on the trip to the American Chemical Society conference.

All of them involve, in some way, the letters "K", or "KDE"(not necessarily in that order, or "D" for Debian.

OR just may be a nice sounding word that implies motion, movement, etc.

Kinemaic
Diamante
Emprise
EmpriseUndertaKen
Flo
Konfluence
DeltaK
KalieDoscopE
KiDomEr...a takeoff on "Kitomer"
Kovariant
KuDOS .... KDE upon Debian OS
KoDEc
KenDo.........obvious takeoff on the oriental martial arts
aKcellerate
KaDet
Kosine
DeKa........... KDE backwards and inside out
KDIA
KANDE
KANOE
fabriK
roKa
Kartwheel............kind of a silly!
ROTA
KORDA
EKOS.........somewhat of a takeoff on "Oikos" the Greek for "house" and the science "Ecology"
DEKOS........... KDE inside out and backward
KORDA
DELKO
DELKOS
PLEKOS

KDEA came across my summat fatigued mind but I dismissed it for rather obvious reasons! LOL

woodcrossEDKsmoke

[SteveRiley]

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

[Feathers McGraw]

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

The ones with horsemeat in them? Lol

[NoWorries]

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

Also with the meatballs, all the furniture is packaged in a flat-pack and you have to have basic skills to assemble it. Just like installing "Kubuntu" or whatever you want to call it.

Great to see such "thought" being put into an alternative name. What about a diversion to names that incorporate Blue Systems in the name rather than focusing on KDE and Debian.

On another related point, I have been puzzled for some time now as to who or why there are 5 stars on the title to this thread. Does anyone know the answer to this?

[woodsmoke]

Well BluKu comes to mind it kind of sounds like beaucoup (pronounced "boo koo" meaning "plenty".

woodbluevelvetsmoke

[richb]

kblu
kbluked
kdeblu
blukde
KbluDbluEblu (almost unpronounceable)

[mastablasta]

Netrunner? :-P

[Feathers McGraw]

Netrunner? :-P

That was a great name. Shame they used it already =[

[charles052]

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?