Do You Agree That Kubuntu Should be Renamed - If So, What Name?

[MoonRise]

Reading through this I didn't see this mentioned so I will. A few had opinions on NetRunner. Well, why not spell it as KNetRunner?

[oshunluvr]

I like KDEBlue. Keeps KDE, DEB and adds the Blue.

Kay Dee Blue

[vinnywright]

BlueKu

IDK ,,,,,,,

is not the renaming talk because we may have to leave the Ubuntu base ?

if so keeping the uafter the K dose not compute Will ,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,maby BlueDE for the bluesystems and DE for the DE in KDE & Desktop Environmen,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,OOOoooooo...........O and DEbian as well ...........that was the consensus of the logical new base right ?

VINNY

[SteveRiley]

BlueKu

Gesundheit!

[NoWorries]

I have been interested in the alternative names, and while I like BlueLinOS, which I think is unpopular, the alternative that I do like is a variant on KuBlue which is BlueKu as it does not start with a K.

I think that what sets "Kubuntu" apart from the rest of the KDE distro's is that it is very stable and it is very easy to get the latest packages.

This is very useful if you are surrounded by M$ devotees who are very fast to criticize Linux. Just the other day I had one instance where I was sent a word document and the pdf version. This was done in case I could not read the word file correctly. I pointed out to the sender that he was using a proprietary font, Calibra, and all I had to do was save his doc attachment and change the font to a standard font such as Arial or Times Roman.

[anamnesis]

Don't forget KDE is quite popular among German-speaking developers and users, KuBlue sounds in German like it has something to do with a cow... (Eine Kuh)

Well, in fact "Kubuntu" sounds in German like a coloured cow (bunt=coloured, "bunte Kuh") :-)

[Teunis]

I am lacking the standing to introduce such big words but yeah, pretty much what I meant
So it's not only the distro that might need a new ancestry and name but also this great forum...
My hope is this 'might' does not turn into a 'need'.

[SteveRiley]

how to merge assimilate the characters of the moderators

Fixed that for ya

[woodsmoke]

if I had to choose a distro by moderators I vote we keep the best ones! .... err sorry we already have the best ones!

woodjustsayinsmoke

[Teunis]

Yes I would certainly support such a merge, as a matter of fact I'm typing this on a laptop with Netrunner Enigma (13.06) and it is a nice distro.
Because it's still using the Ubuntu repo's it will be just a susceptible to Canonical quirks as present Kubuntu...

The Netrunner forum is very close to their developers, the question would, as always in Linuxland, be how to merge the characters of the moderators

[dequire]

I think the Kubuntu Dev team should merge with Blue System's Netrunner OS and keep the Netrunner OS name. I really like it! Personally, I'm not a big fan of any name starting with a "K". That's been overdone and overkilled for a long time now, IMHO

[woodsmoke]

lol
Kinda like when Chevrolet was selling the Chevy "Nova" down in Mexico, their FIRST attempt at marketing "outside the country"......

Didn't sell......

They could NOT understand why! ?

And then one of the locals told them that in Spanish............ No va.... meana........."no go"!

woodsmoke

[Teunis]

Don't forget KDE is quite popular among German-speaking developers and users, KuBlue sounds in German like it has something to do with a cow... (Eine Kuh)

[charles052]

Why not KuBlue? 1. As long as Blue Systems supports the project financially it deserves a name like this. 2. It's short. 3. It's a nice rhyme.

I like KuBlue. Sounds pretty good to me.

[richb]

Sounds too much like kaplop, and brings up some negative images.