thelinuxlink.net

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14283

Quote:

We all from the kubuntu.de-team have pursued this aim [to improve Kubuntu] together, but most of the work has been done by Andreas Mueller (amu). He is not only co-founder and unpayed developer of the Kubuntu-project, but he's also hosting this website and he's taking over all the arising expenses. During our endeavours for Kubuntu, there were made several requests to Canonical. All those requests are unanswered 'till today! Up to now, there is only one payed developer. Since Canonical ignores all our personal and partly financial engagement until now we have to assume that Canonical is not willing to make Kubuntu a '1st class distribution'."

They warn that:

Unless all the requests made by Andreas Müller are answered till 15.04.2006

* kubuntu.de will shut down including its forum and mailing lists
* Amu will stop developing Kubuntu
* there will be no booth at LinuxTag

Thats not too good. I just downloaded Kubuntu two days ago to try on my other hardrive to see what it is like. Hopefully things get worked out.

I'm probably biased, given that the lead (and paid) developer of Kubuntu is a friend of mine, but from all of the previous press from Canonical I think they have been very serious about pushing it through as a part of the Ubuntu family of distributions, even down to Mark Shuttleworth saying that he was using it.

I think this is a 'wait and see what happens when everything calms down' type situation.

Ah - see also http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1917 "Move Along, Nothing to see here"

That appears to be specific to kubuntu.de not the kubuntu project as a whole. However, I downloaded the flight6 iso twice recently, and can't get the damn thing to boot on a single machine I own - that's not so rosy IMO. Checked md5sums and everything. Quite odd.

In my experience Ubuntu is more stable than Kubuntu. On my laptop I installed Ubuntu and then added the KDE packages. I've had no problems so far.