Does Kubuntu really need to be it's own distro?

[Chanchao]

Hello Senectus,

Thursday, June 16, 2005, 10:31:03 AM, you wrote:

S> Why is it being classed as it's own distro? 
S> Surely Ubuntu, Kubuntu and all the users in general would be a great
S> deal better off if support/repositories etc were condensed into one..
S> after all it's ONLY a slightly different GUI.

And the name is ugly.  "Ubuntu" is a perfectly balanced, beautiful
word.  "Kubuntu" is..  well, kugly, I suppose.  :-)

Seriously, I think the main reason for not integrating KDE into Ubuntu
(and supporting it) is that it would draw away resources from the
effort to make Ubuntu to most stable, usable OS out there. So it's
classed as its own distro because it *IS*. It's not supported in the
way Ubuntu is. Any issues with Kubuntu (or KDE on Ubuntu if you will)
would reflect badly on Ubuntu as a whole.

That said, you can't stop people from bolting KDE on, calling it
whatever they want and redistributing it.. It's a free world.

Cheers,
Chanchao