Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 02:36:24 PM Basil Chupin did opine:

> Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> 
> 
> Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be
> funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat
> Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as
> Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support the projects with
> infrastructure. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu of course and KDE
> as well.
> 
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/479710/

That is about a 10-33 Tor vacuum.  IOW, it sucks.  Sorry Jonathon.

Cheers, Gene
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