[clue-talk] Hello CLUE

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:39:04 -0600
Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:

> > Debian just needs to give up on having a stable, period.  Gentoo
> > needs to dial back a little and have things actually work more
> > often than not. Ubuntu needs to care about something other than
> > GNOME, with KDE and XFCE and school people working on their own
> > little projects on the side.

KDE/Kubuntu and Xfce/Xubuntu are both "official" Ubuntu releases these
days -- IIRC, Xubuntu was added as an "official" project with 6.06LTS,
and Kubuntu the release before that. I think a lot of people forget
that the original idea behind Ubuntu was to create a desktop distro
that rocks, and focus on ONE desktop to avoid the distraction of trying
to support every desktop under the sun. Everyone has an opinion of
which desktop is the best, but in the end, they had to start with one. 

As Ubuntu has grown in popularity, it's made sense to expand the number
of desktop environments to support, but a large number of Ubuntu devs
still use GNOME as their desktop of choice. IIRC, the number of paid
devs specifically for KDE/GNOME are equal. 

I'm not sure what you've found lacking in KDE on Ubuntu, but I haven't
seen any problem with it. I've been very pleased, particularly since
the Kubuntu team usually has packages for new KDE releases up the day
of the release or day after. 

I've spent very little time with Xubuntu -- I don't know if there are
any quality problems per se, but they've configured it to look like,
well, GNOME, in Xubuntu, which weirds me out a bit. 

Best, 

Zonker
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