Showing posts with label Canonical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canonical. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

KUBUNTU will be community only ubuntu flavor

Such a shame. Canonical announced they will no longer funding Kubuntu after 12.04. After April release, Kubuntu will be treated like other community flavors such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu....
The reason ?
"...Not been a business success" .
After 7 years Kubuntu will die - no official releases, no paid Canonical support, no download links on Ubuntu.com site.

The question is whether the world really needs Kubuntu? Obviously yes, I think YES.But the truth is not like this. If is, then we will hope Kubuntu survive this crisis and people take initiative in doing the tasks.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

OpenSuse 12.1 and Tumbleweed vs ArchLinux, part 2

Here is the rest of my short comparison:

FeatureArchLinuxopenSuse
Package updates Very often, about every day Rare.Tumbleweed repo is
updated more often,though.
Comunity support Large and friendly Very large
I want a customized iso? You can build it yourself with
Archiso. It is not so easy,
but doable :) You will find it very powerful

Use Suse Studio
It is a mater of some clicks and voila.
Customization is very limited and
Package Management is like a hell
There is also kiwi (like archiso).
I haven't tried yet.
ARM support Yes, see ArchlinuxArm Yes, but there are limited support
with Kiwi builder and no support
with Suse Studio

That's all. I think I will stick with ArchLinux for a while as it is more powerful and more customizeable. And I will try to create a separate repo, keeping packages for about a 3 or 6 monts for stability, and only applying patches, if needed at all. Just like Canonical made Ubuntu :)