Please don't leave or fork Kubuntu

[O. Sinclair]

On 28/05/2015 23:05, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> On 05/28/2015 01:43 AM, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> I don't think I need to quote any background information about what 
>> has developed "all over the internet" the last couple of days.
>>
>> What I sincerely hope is that those of you, users or 
>> developers/maintainers, who feel like giving up on Kubuntu the distro
>> and community reconsider that decision.
> 
> This is very interesting to me. I've been a Linux user since 1995 when I
> started with Slackware. I switched to (as it was then called) S.u.S.E.
> in 1998, when I first became a KDE user. When KDE 4 came out about ten
> years later, I switched to Ubuntu and had a brief but passionate
> dalliance with GNOME 2, but as KDE 4 matured, I discovered Kubuntu and
> my beloved KDE and I were reunited. Since then, however, I've become
> increasingly concerned by Ubuntu's perceived "my way or the highway"
> attitude, and the ultimate result was that I switched to Fedora's KDE
> spin this week when 22 was released. Such impeccable timing!
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, it would be a good idea if the brains behind
> Kubuntu jumped ship and created *a new distro* based on Debian (but
> updated more frequently). A pure, flagship KDE distribution, with all
> the ease of use of Ubuntu, but no influence from or interference by
> anyone else. It would be a thing of beauty and I'd switch to it at the
> first release.
> 
Have a look at Tanglu or Chakra in that case. However I feel personally
that the "ecosystem" that is *buntu is an advantage not to be given up
lightly. I hope that the issues can be sorted out, I hope Scott
Kitterman will change his mind, I hope that Ubuntu CC and Mark will step
back from their position.

all the best,
Sinclair