Talk:Kubuntu

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[edit] Advice

I advise you get the Live-DVD/Installer as your first pick incase you need to install ndiswrapper (setup your internet cards). That way you'll have an OS to go back to with working internet incase things don't work.

Also, if you're new with linux, you may want to check up on what type of wireless card you have. Also check this list to see if your wireless card is listed.

--Cyberman 08:37, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

This isn't really relevant to Kubuntu in an encyclopedic sense, more a forums sense.-localzuk 20:46, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kubuntu defined

Kubuntu = KDE/Ubuntu/Debian/GNU/Linux. —Ashley Y 02:57, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

What? Do you want this including as information? If so it is already included (KDE and ubuntu are mentioned directly, debian and linux indirectly through the ubuntu page).-localzuk 20:46, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Also, "Kubuntu" backwards spells "utnubuk". AFAIK this is not a word in any language. —Ashley Y 23:12, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

What? You seem to be making pointless comments here. What is your point? -localzuk 23:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Loading his edit counter, I suspect. Eddie.willers 02:44, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Independent install

The sentence

Kubuntu is an official derivation of the Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system providing KDE support. It is part of Ubuntu; but can be installed independently from Ubuntu.

does not really seem right to me. Ubuntu is the underlying structure for running either ubuntu-desktop or kubuntu-desktop and you can't really install kubuntu without ubuntu. Can we create a more definitive sentence regarding this? Something like:

Kubuntu is an official derivation of the Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system providing KDE support. It is part of the Ubuntu project and uses the underlying system provided by Ubuntu. However, instead of installing the default desktop package, it installs a KDE equivalent desktop (called kubuntu-desktop). Furthermore Kubuntu and Ubuntu can work alongside each other by having both the ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop packages installed.

It isn't perfect but it provides a better insight into kubuntu IMO.-localzuk 00:06, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I agree, your definitive sentence is better.

I have changed the sentence now. -localzuk 14:49, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kubuntu's meaning

Does Kubuntu really mean "towards humanity"? According to the Ubuntu article, ubuntu means "humanity towards others." Does the K + ubuntu form a different word in the Bemba language, or is this an error in the article? -cprompt 04:00, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

the 'k' is derived from the KDE (K Desktop Environment) - 24.149.167.62 21:31, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't think that's what he's asking. Anyway, from what I know as a Kubuntu user, the name was thought up of by the folks at Canonical, and they did find that "kubuntu" did indeed mean "towards humanity" in Bemba when doing research about the name. --NeoChaosX 00:58, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] notability?

What's the justification for having this as a separate article from ubuntu? Are there download figures, distro reviews, or anything in the way of independent, verifiable coverage? -- nae'blis 21:34, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

It has a different article because it is a somewhat different product. We have a Windows XP article and a Windows Server article, and for the same reason we have an Ubuntu article and a Kubuntu article. --I80and 00:18, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hybridisation

I just wrote the section explaining that one can mix and match. I don't want to list my own recommendations in the article (because it would violate NPOV), but I think they may nevertheless be helpful. So, I list them here for reference. Personally, I recommend:

  Ubuntu installer (GTK)   
  KDE desktop (Qt)   
  Klipper (Qt)
  synaptic package manager (GTK)
  abiword/gnumeric   (GTK)
  firefox and konqueror (GTK/Qt)
  amarok (Qt)
  kwrite (Qt)
  konsole (Qt)
  a mix of the kcontrol and gnome-admin packages
  xscreensaver (neither gnome not Qt)
  mplayer/xmms (neither)

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.187.165.114 (talk) 09:48, 10 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Free

I noticed that an anonymous editor removed "(as in beer)" from the definition of Kubuntu. I added this back in to match the website linked as the reference. It should also be noted that free (as in beer) is a reference to clarify in US English; the difference between things that are free (e.g. cost) and people (e.g. rights, liberties and whatnot) --Manzabar 20:34, 14 March 2007 (UTC)