Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Tue Jun 30 03:14:22 UTC 2009


On 06/29/2009 09:42 PM, Adam Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Kevin Kofler<kevin.kofler at chello.at>  wrote:
>    
>> Well, Ubuntu will have a problem at that point as well (see Kubuntu and
>> Xubuntu). ;-) Maybe we should write a U Desktop Environment just to give
>> them trouble. ^^
>>      
> That's actually a little different, Kubutu and Xubuntu are considered
> completely separate distributions from within the Ubuntu community.
> They all have disjoint development teams (though *some* do cross
> distros in their development efforts) really the only thing they share
> is a package repository, but so do distros like Mint.
>
> This is an aspect of Fedora that I really like, I always felt it
> foolish to have a different distro for each Desktop Environment.
>    

Yes, because what if someone installs Gnome, KDE, and XFCE? Is it now 
called Fedora 11GKX? Ukxuntu? (probably works out with some African 
dialect ;) )

Kevin, they'd probably just call it "Uubuntu" sadly.




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