Kubuntu Announces Commercial Support 59
sfcrazy writes "Kubuntu is one of those few GNULinux based distributions which brings the two leading technologies together — Ubuntu and KDE. There are quite a lot of businesses which are using this combination in their set-up. Until now there was no professional support available for Kubuntu users. To fill this gap the Kubuntu community has launched commercial support for businesses, organizations and individuals. The Kubuntu team is partnering with Emerge Open to offer this service which is called 'Kubuntu Commercial Support provided by Emerge Open'."
Re:KDE FTW! (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh hey, it's a meme from 10 years ago.
You can make KDE look like whatever you want, guy. I've had people ask me "what's that gtk theme" I was using.
But then you're probably one of those people still with the teletubby wallpaper and fisher-price theme on your XP machine.
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Re:KDE FTW! (Score:4, Interesting)
Rebecca Black Linux
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rebeccablackos/ [sourceforge.net]
Hannah Montana Linux...
http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
My Little Pony Gnome theme...
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/?content=144562 [gnome-look.org]
Unfortunately, Mattel is serious about its trademarks, so Barbie Linux doesn't exist (yet)(at least publicly)
Be afraid. Very afraid.
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BMO
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Better yet:
Biebian [sourceforge.net]
Re:KDE FTW! (Score:5, Insightful)
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A little off topic I know but I just needed to say that I miss the old themes.org web site.
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Who cares if KDE or whatever desktop is "ugly"? The last thing the Linux desktop needs at this point is more designers putting their stamp on things -- just give me software that is finished and works and I'll be happy.
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... just give me software that is finished and works ...
That's adorable.
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I've got a VM running Windows 3.11. It's finished, and for what it does, it works. Want me to ship you the VMDK?
Re:Wait Ku...buntu? (Score:5, Informative)
Ubuntu stopped giving money to Kubuntu, but Kubuntu is alive and well.
http://lwn.net/Articles/491498/rss [lwn.net]
For those unwilling to click through:
Kubuntu to be sponsored by Blue Systems
[Distributions] Posted Apr 10, 2012 17:33 UTC (Tue) by corbet
The Kubuntu project recently lost its sponsorship from Canonical, which is pursuing its fortunes in other areas. The project has now announced that it will be sponsored by Blue Systems instead. "Blue Systems sponsors a number of KDE projects and will encourage Kubuntu to follow the same successful formula as it has always had - community led, KDE focused, Ubuntu flavour." The actual extent of this sponsorship is not clear at this time.
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Ah! Thanks for the . . . Enlightenment.
Since I haven't used either environment in so many years, I'd just construed the news back then that KDE was totally on the outs. Didn't realize it was just Canonical sponsorship.
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I would never install that ugly shit on any of MY computers. Unity4lyfe
Let me guess, you're an early adopter of Windows 8
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I would never install that ugly shit on any of MY computers. Unity4lyfe
You picked the wrong place fanboy, go back to OMGUbuntu.
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You get more pages in the DLC (or if you have a season pass).
Catchy Name (Score:1)
'Kubuntu Commercial Support provided by Emerge Open'
A lot of long nights and creative thought went into that.
Or... (Score:1)
Or one can just install Ubuntu server (with or without a support license) and do:
apt-get install kde-full
Re:Or... (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, that will only install the default KDE with none of the Kubuntu defaults. Whether you want that or not is up to the user.
apt-get install kde-full kubuntu-desktop
installs the whole magilla.
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>Dissing OS/2
Ackshully, every single one of the Windows interfaces has been inferior to Workplace Shell.
Having used such in the past, I can tell you that there are definitely things you could do in WPS easily, but are impossible to do in Windows. Going from WPS to Win95 and above (even including everything post-vista) the Windows interfaces seem klunky in comparison.
Heck, even the command line terminal in Windows is inferior to everything out there. And don't give me any of that "but PowerShell" crap.
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No idea why you think being closest to Windows is a good thing. "Klumsy and Klunky" is a pretty good characterization for what Windows thinks is a window manager.
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Gnome is much better, it was always intuitive and the closest thing to a Windows GUI.
Gnome is basically a copy of OSX these days. KDE is much more similar to Windows.
Re:KDE a "leading technology"? Surely not. (Score:4, Insightful)
KDE is about the only fully integrated and configurable desktop experience that's available on Linux.
It might be Gnome had it's years with community traction but that's in the past, KDE and Kubuntu are the present.
That said I quite see the attraction of a Unity, E17 or LXDE, but they are neither fully integrated nor particularly configurable.
The Open Suse and Sabayon versions of KDE are nice but are suffering the lack of the Debian package system.
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The Slackware version of KDE is very nice as well, and it does not 'suffer' from lack of Debian package management. Really, package management causes more suffering than it alleviates.
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"What? Can you actually be serious? Most of the endemic problems in the Windows world can be attributed to the lack of proper package management outside of OS updates."
Perfectly serious. Can you be seriously advocating the addition of a major system to gnu in order to solve a problem *on windows?*
Which problem on windows, btw, has nothing to do with package management. Rather it is a result of lacking support for library versioning. Something *nix systems have dealt with properly for decades.
Re:KDE a "leading technology"? Surely not. (Score:5, Informative)
I still remember when kde2 came out. There was all this talk about everything as a file, like plan9, but in a user oriented fashion. KDE4 did away with all that, but kept the idea of user functionality. If for you functionality is having a button in a specific place, or having settings preordained and hidden, then KDE is not for you. KDE allows for some amazing things, like workspaces. (I gaurantee that this concept will be picked up eventually by the major players as something they came up with)
KDE has in most cases at least two ways do do everything, if you can't find it in one place it's in another. This is a pain to some people, but to someone trying to figure out the system, it means that they have at leas two chances to figue it out before they go to the forums.
KDE is by far the most configuable DE bar none. Where other systems have hacks to change things KDE gives it to you on a platter. There is almost nothing that you cannot change to suit your needs.
While I understand the desire to have a simple desktop setup, any power user who has had more that a couple months with KDE will tell you, there is hardly any DE that can stand up to it for useability.
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Care to explain what this is? Googled for it and didn't get any wiser. You mean like virtual desktops? KDE Activities? Something else?
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So from your link, you can switch between a desktop and a netbook mode? That's it?
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I used Kubuntu for a year before switching to OpenSUSE.
I don't find the yast to be a limitation at all, and it has much cleaner integration with the underlying OS, especially the networkig and service management.
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There are plenty of Windows shell replacements abd have been for more than a decade. That you're ignorant of them is your own fault.
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Back to Mate (Score:1)
After using Gnome 2, LXDE, Mate, LXDE, an Xfce streak recently I'm back to Mate, using the default, single panel Linux Mint 15 layout with two virtual desktops next to the start menu and "show desktop" and that's all. Nice fresh air using something without tweaking it for once.
To be fair I've hated them all, discovering niceties and nasties and in the end.. back to gnome 2 instead of its clones.
No CPU/RAM indicator yet but I ran out because my top panel was so fugly. With Xfce I had a nice top panel with in
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profits to Kubuntu (Score:2)
The nice thing about this deal is that Emerge Open is a non-profit company so any money made goes back into Kubuntu to fund developer travel or hardware. Remember you can always donate too [kubuntu.org] :)
Kubuntu is not Ubuntu (Score:2)
For all the flak the Ubuntu project gets, Kubuntu is one of those rare gems. I use it as my main OS and there's nothing I'd rather use. I'm thrilled to see it get more support. I know there are Ubuntu fanboys but I'll confess, I'm a Kubuntu fanboy.
Unlike Ubuntu, Kubuntu hasn't tried to slip Amazon crapware into their OS. KDE 4 remains a beautiful UI unlike the hideous messes that are Unity and Gnome 3. Unlike MINT, Kubuntu doesn't theme everything or screw with the default settings for software.
Unlike SuS