Suggestion for dapper -- scrap kubuntu.

Rohan Dhruva wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not a maniac, and i am kde fan. The idea i am going to suggest is
> not as radical as the subject claims.
> 
> I think that the word "kubuntu" really causes the excellent distribution
> to somehow "lose" its identity.

I agree, I just find it weird.

> It doesnt "feel" like ubuntu.
> Half the world knows what "ubuntu" is, but tell them that "I use
> kubuntu", and they will ask "Yelch, is this is a fork ?"

I don't necessarily agree there.  I've never come across anyone who
knows of Ubuntu that doesn't also know of Kubuntu. But then, anyone
I know of who knows of Ubuntu, knows Linux, period.

> 
> Even fedora, suse, [and Mandriva] provide both kde and gnome, but dont name it
> differently. Really, what is the need to name kubuntu differently ?
> Even the website claims that it is ubuntu. Kde packages are in ubuntu's
> repo. Then why ?

Considering what a distinct name Ubuntu is and what a great idea it was
in the first place, I feel it's uniqueness is diminished with the
alternations of the name that came about for the other variations.

"'Ubuntu' is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others".
Ubuntu also means "I am what I am because of who we all are". The Ubuntu
Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world."

							-ubuntulinux.org

"Kubuntu [means] 'towards humanity' in Bemba."*

                                               -kubuntu.org

"Kubuntu Linux's name definition was a damn stroke of good luck.  As I'm
sure it took a bit of digging to scrape up the Bemba stuff.

Prior to that, I'm sure it simply meant "Ubuntu with KDE instead of
GNOME" ;-)

                                                 -Scott of
angrykeyboarder.com

In any event I suppose it makes sense, but it is odd, compared to other
distros.  I mean when I install one from CD or DVD and apt-get the other
do I have Ubuntu? Kubuntu? Ubuntu/Kubuntu? Kubuntu/Ubuntu?  KubuUbuntu?
UbuKubuntu?

Not to mention it took me forever and a day to get Thunderbird trained
NOT to put my Kubuntu mailing list stuff in my Ubuntu mailing list
folder. ;-)



-- 
Scott
www.angrykeyboarder.com
© 2005 angrykeyboarder & Elmer Fudd. All Wights Wesewved


*Where the hell is "Bemba"?