Canonical ending support for Kubuntu, reassigning lead developer
ars technica reports: The lead developer of Kubuntu says that Canonical will no longer be funding his work on the KDE-based Linux distribution after the upcoming release of Kubuntu 12.04.
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/canonical-ending-support-for-ku...
Cheers, Peter
No!
On 7 February 2012 16:59, Peter Reutemann fracpete@waikato.ac.nz wrote:
ars technica reports: The lead developer of Kubuntu says that Canonical will no longer be funding his work on the KDE-based Linux distribution after the upcoming release of Kubuntu 12.04.
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/canonical-ending-support-for-ku...
Cheers, Peter
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No!
Now's the time to switch to Linux Mint (just another community-driven Linux distro). :-)
Cheers, Peter
On 08/02/12 08:15, Peter Reutemann wrote:
No!
Now's the time to switch to Linux Mint (just another community-driven Linux distro). :-)
Cheers, Peter
How much pain does one have to endure when switching from Kubuntu to Mint? Anyone have any stories to share?
How much pain does one have to endure when switching from Kubuntu to Mint? Anyone have any stories to share?
Well, if you've got a separate /home partition, then it's not really an issue: simply wipe the old installation and mount your existing home partition. If you use the Ubuntu-based version of Mint, then you can always install your beloved KDE applications (I'm very fond of Okular's annotating functionality).
BTW I'm still using Mint Katya, as the Gnome 3 support is not yet fully "mint". ;-) Though the Cinnamon (Mint's Gnome Shell fork) APIs are deemed to be fully stable now: http://h-online.com/-1420266
Cheers, Peter
On 08/02/12 09:40, Peter Reutemann wrote:
How much pain does one have to endure when switching from Kubuntu to Mint? Anyone have any stories to share?
Well, if you've got a separate /home partition, then it's not really an issue: simply wipe the old installation and mount your existing home partition. If you use the Ubuntu-based version of Mint, then you can always install your beloved KDE applications (I'm very fond of Okular's annotating functionality).
BTW I'm still using Mint Katya, as the Gnome 3 support is not yet fully "mint". ;-) Though the Cinnamon (Mint's Gnome Shell fork) APIs are deemed to be fully stable now: http://h-online.com/-1420266
Cheers, Peter
I was thinking more about the specific configuration that I have set up, mostly in /etc and /usr/local. The machine I'm thinking about is my home office server, which also doubles as a workstation. It has had Kubuntu LTS for the last 2 releases and whenever I upgrade there is always something that needs reconfiguring (package no longer available, new version with different config file, etc). I suspect that changing distro will require setting this all up from scratch again.
How foolish would it be to point apt at the Mint repos and do an upgrade? (Next time I have a day to waste (yeah, right) I should probably clone the disk and try that.)
Cheers Glenn
It may well be. I've already downloaded the iso and tried running it in a virtual machine.
Looks good. But I've just got things set up nicely in Kubuntu..............
Mint seems to be getting quite a few refugees.
Cheers,
Chris
On 8 February 2012 08:15, Peter Reutemann fracpete@waikato.ac.nz wrote:
No!
Now's the time to switch to Linux Mint (just another community-driven Linux distro). :-)
Cheers, Peter
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug@list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
You could wait and see how Kubuntu goes being community supported, I imagine it's popular enough to carry on without a serious drop in quality.
Cheers, Ewen
On 8 February 2012 12:03, Chris O'Halloran cmoman@gmail.com wrote:
It may well be. I've already downloaded the iso and tried running it in a virtual machine.
Looks good. But I've just got things set up nicely in Kubuntu..............
Mint seems to be getting quite a few refugees.
Cheers,
Chris
On 8 February 2012 08:15, Peter Reutemann fracpete@waikato.ac.nz wrote:
No!
Now's the time to switch to Linux Mint (just another community-driven Linux distro). :-)
Cheers, Peter
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/%C2%A0 Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug@list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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Fair point. Time will tell.
On 8 February 2012 12:14, Ewen Cumming ewen.cumming@gmail.com wrote:
You could wait and see how Kubuntu goes being community supported, I imagine it's popular enough to carry on without a serious drop in quality.
Cheers, Ewen
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