On 5/1/07, Joshua Zeidner <
jjzeidner@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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> On 5/1/07, Fritz <fkolberg@qwest.net> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea why Canonical makes separate
> > distributions for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.?
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> Canonical does make them,
>
sorry thats a typo: should read 'doesn't' .
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...
>
> "An easy-to-use distribution for novices should not be cluttered with
> too
> many choices."
>
> 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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