On Tue, 1 May 2007, Fritz wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea why Canonical makes separate
> distributions for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.?
>
> 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.
It is more than just the startkde or gnome-session, but the add-on
software to that use the KDE/QT toolkits versus GNOME/GTK toolkits versus
just GTK. I think that is part of the reason.
For example, the Xubuntu webpage says "Xubuntu will use, as far as
possible, GTK2 applications ..."
An easy-to-use distribution for novices should not be cluttered with too
many choices.
> Is there some real (technical) reason these are separate
> distributions?
Jeremy C. Reed
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