Who are the kubuntu creator?

[Guest]

Somebody help me? im need finish up my assignment. i just want to know who are the kubuntu creator?

[GreyGeek]

Re: Who are the kubuntu creator?

Googling "History of KDE" got me this:

http://www.kde.org/history/

which gives a series of links, and this, which pretty much has it all in one place:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE


I began using the beta 1.0 release of KDE in September of 1998, when I switched from Red Hat 5.0, which used fwmn, to SuSE, which used KDE 1.0 beta. KDE looked and worked like Win95, which I had been using, so the switch was totally painless. At work, I had to continue using Windows from win9x through nt3.5 and 4, on to W2k and then to XP, but I always stayed with KDE on my computer at home. I also configured KDE to look and feel like the Windows I was using at work so that switching between machines at work and at home was essentially seamless. When I started dual booting at work I continued to make my KDE look like the version of Windows I was running so that folks at work could see that it wasn't a monster to learn. Within a couple years there were Linux servers in the server room and several developers were using Linux in the cubicles. There was a move a foot to convert the all the servers to Linux and as many of the desktops as possible. Less than a year before I retired a new governor was elected. His personal friend and newly chosen CTO was a lawyer with no technical training but an apparent friendship with an MS sales rep, giving the rep a direct connection to the governor's ear. His first decree was that 10,000 of 13,000 state employees switch from IBM Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange. Throwing away 10,000 LN licenses, and 200 databases which couldn't be successfully exported to Exchange, and buying 10,000 MS Exchange licenses flew into the face of his campaign promise to make the state IT more "productive" and "economical". I've heard tha the net affect is that productivity has dropped to less than half of what it was before because of delays in network performance caused by Active Directory, increased crashes in the networks, and increased security costs, etc... IOW, the usual problems.

[Guest]

Re: Who are the kubuntu creator?

What is differences of KDE and Kubuntu?

[sithlord48]

Re: Who are the kubuntu creator?

kubuntu is an operating system

kde is a desktop enviroment.

as an example the diffrence between ubuntu and kubuntu is the use of a diffrent desktop enviroment (ubuntu uses gnome and kde uses kubuntu)

hope that helps -sithlord48

[josefko]

Re: Who are the kubuntu creator?

Sorry sithlord48 I have written it in the meatime.
To make a long story short. In the world of Linux an operating system is splitted to the part you can see (desktop etc.) and the rest, which you do not see (kernel, drivers etc.). What you see is KDE, which is based on the Linux distribution Ubuntu. That's why KDE+UBUNTU=KUBUNTU. But it is not so easy. Ubuntu has default desktop GNOME and GNOME+UBUNTU = UBUNTU.
Greygeek pointed you to the most interesting part of KUBUNTU, which differs it from UBUNTU.
Apologize to those guys which know that it is not so simple.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Who are the kubuntu creator?

What is differences of KDE and Kubuntu?

KDE is a desktop environment which can be added to any version of Linux.

GNOME is a desktop environment which can be added to any versiion of Linux.

Ubuntu features GNOME.

Kubuntu is based on Ubuntu, but instead of GNOME it uses KDE as its desktop environment.


GNOME is built using a toolkit (Application Program Interface, or API) called GTK2+, which was originally used to create GIMP, a very powerful image editor. GNOME and GTK2+ are compiled using the C language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME

KDE is built using a toolkit called Qt, from QtSoftware (originally called Trolltech, a Swedish company bought out by Nioka), is compiled using the C++ language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE

Qt comes as a single downloaded file which includes the Qt API, the Qt-Designer (for GUI interfaces), and the Qt-Linquist, a GUI interface to the i18n language package, so that the visual text of the GUI interface can be switched to what ever language is chosen when the distro is installed.

GNOME is composed of several components which often must be download separately, and care must be taken to make sure that the versions coordinate, but that is not a problem for anyone who is skilled enough to do desktop programming.

Both desktops are adept at serving the needs of the user. Which one a user decides to stick with is more a function of their personal preferences than of any advantages or disadvantages of either GNOME or KDE. In fact. some Linux users stick with the old desktop environments of the X Windows system that were first added to Linux to give it a GUI desktop. My first Linux desktop, on Red Hat 5.0, was fwm, which I could somewhat configure to look like Win95. But, it lacked MOST of the graphical power present in the latest version of KDE, KDE4.3, for example. There were about two dozen or so different X clients, like twm or fwm, but most have faded away and are no longer supported. Those that have survived, like Xfce4, are very powerful, but light enough to be used on old or underpowered computers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

[ukchucktown]

Re: Who are the kubuntu creator?

Also, since it wasn't mentioned, the commercial sponsor behind Ubuntu and Kubuntu is Canonical.

www.canonical.com

[Qqmike]

Re: Who are the kubuntu creator?

Here's a brief tutorial I wrote a year ago that might help get you started on some of this:

Topic: Kubuntu & KDE 4 desktop interface: concepts, terms
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...seen#msg160263
(under Documentation > How To's)

Contents (top down):
Linux, Distros, Kubuntu
GUI and CLI: interfaces for communicating with Kubuntu
X Window System: The GUI implementation in Kubuntu (and Linux in general)
KDE (K, mascot, logos, release history, KDE 3 vs KDE 4, KDE 4: a major change)
Plasma
Widget (Plasmoid), widget toolkit (Qt), widget engine (Plasma)
Plasmoids
The old Desktop, the new Folder View, comparison
Links to help you get started



(I intended to maintain/improve the tutorial, but haven't had time. Others here are certainly better qualified to write this sort of thing, but as I say, it might help get you started, give you some ideas to explore further.)