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Re: Suggestion for dapper -- scrap kubuntu.: msg#00310

Subject: Re: Suggestion for dapper -- scrap kubuntu.
Scott wrote:

> Rohan Dhruva wrote:
>> 
>> 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 get this at all.  Kubuntu is clearly Ubuntu.  It sounds like exactly
what it is - a small variation on Ubuntu.  I think it works exactly as
intended - like most KDE apps, it begins with a K, so we can expect it to
be a KDE version of Ubuntu.
-- 
derek




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