On 5/1/07, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 5/1/07, Fritz <fkolberg@qwest.net> wrote:
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> > Does anyone have any idea why Canonical makes separate
> > distributions for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.?
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>   Canonical does make them, it sponsors them.  Ubuntu is ultimately
> community driven, Canonical just picks up corporate support contracts and
> manages financial/technical problems for large firms( amongst other things
> ).  You could, finances permitting, start your own Ubuntu support company
> with no less privilege than Canonical (good luck finding as good people).
> Do not confuse the Canonical model with the Red Hat model, these two
> companies work very differently- I doubt you will find something comparable
> to RHEL.  Many Ubuntu people are not associated with Canonical at all.  I
> believe Dell just made a major deal with Canonical...
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>   "An easy-to-use distribution for novices should not be cluttered with
> too
> many choices."
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>   I think Jeremy is on point here... the idea is to have an easy install
> where the stack is preconfigured.  Ubuntu is a really exciting idea because
> it has the potential to get groups using Linux who did not have access to
> it before.
>
>   -jmz
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> For example, I seem to recall other distributions that let you pick one or
> >
> > both of Gnome and KDE at install time.  Later, depending
> > on whether your ".xinitrc" is set to "gnome-session" or
> > "startkde", one of the two desktops is activated when X starts up.
> >
> > Is there some real (technical) reason these are separate
> > distributions?
> >
> > Fritz
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> I believe Dell just made a major deal with Canonical...

Yes, that would seem to agree with what it says right here:
   http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/05/01/1353237.shtml
[on 'linux.slashdot.org']
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Mike Schwartz
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