News Stories Tagged Xubuntu
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Canonical pulls the plug on funding for Kubuntu LinuxLiliputingInstead it will become a community-supported project, much like Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and Edubuntu ? three other somewhat popular variations of Ubuntu. In other words, the future of the platform will be up to independent developers and not anyone on ... |
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Do Fewer Spinoffs Signal a Waning in Ubuntu's Popularity?The VAR GuyYou're probably also familiar with its official cousins: Kubuntu, Xubuntu and the like. But there's another subset of the Ubuntu ecosystem that gets less play ? namely, the medley of unofficial spinoffs built by third parties. Although little ... |
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Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu, drops commercial supportThe HAccording to Riddell, "Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu", which means that it will still be recognised as an official derivative. He also questions "whether the world ... |
Canonical Ceases Funding of Kubuntu Development
This shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Jonathan Riddell, lead developer of the Kubuntu project and the only person paid by Canonical to work on the KDE variant of the popular distribution, has announced that after the 12.04 release, Canonical will no longer be funding him, effectively putting Kubuntu on the same level as other Ubuntu variants like Xubuntu. Canonical to stop funding Kubuntu
Ubuntu has rapidly become one the of best known Linux-based operating systems available, but it also has several derivatives including Edubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, and Kubuntu. The last one on that list, Kubuntu, is actively funded by Canonical and offers up the equivalent of Ubuntu, but replaces the Unity graphical environment with the KDE Plasma Desktop. [...] RIP Compiz
TechRepublic: The Compiz desktop compositor, which looks all but dead now that Fedora is dropping it from its upcoming release Engineers boost computer processor performance by over 20%
"Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows graphics processing units and central processing units on a single chip to collaborate â" boosting processor performance by an average of more than 20 percent." Tribler makes BitTorrent impossible to shut down
"While the file-sharing ecosystem is currently filled with uncertainty and doubt, researchers at Delft University of Technology continue to work on their decentralized BitTorrent network. Their Tribler client doesn't require torrent sites to find or download content, as it is based on pure peer-to-peer communication. 'The only way to take it down is to take the Internet down,' the lead ... Microsoft to launch Windows 8 Consumer Preview February 29
"Microsoft revealed today that it plans to launch the highly anticipated 'Consumer Preview' version of Windows 8 on February 29th. The company will hold an event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 29th to launch the Windows 8 Consumer Preview between 3PM and 5PM (CET)." Still haven't seen any indication they've addressed the core issues with Metro (no window management, no real ... Linux's New Fellow
While many people work on and with Linux, the Linux Foundation employs only a precious few as fellows. This past week, the number of good Linux fellows grew, and so too did the length of support available for the world's most deployed enterprise Linux distribution. Canonical kicks Kubuntu to the kerb
Axed KDE-based Linux distro was biz non-starter Ubuntu shop Canonical has withdrawn support from development of the KDE-based Kubuntu Linux desktop after seven years for commercial reasons.? Canonical pulls funding for Kubuntu
Canonical, the company best known for its Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, has decided to pull funding for Kubuntu, the version that has KDE as its desktop environment instead of GNOME. RIM's Blackberry 10 native SDK will be open source
"Research in Motion has said the native software development kit for Blackberry 10 will be committed to open source. The firm, which has a history of basing its business on being a closed system, is shifting more and more to open source. Its upcoming Blackberry 10 native SDK will include many open source code resources."
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