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

[woodsmoke]

anamnesis....

I like it! uh oh........that is it's death knell! lol

no, it does have a certain "ring" to it..

..sleighbells ring, are ya listnin!?



wooddingalingsmoke

[anamnesis]

Um, how about.... iKDEa? Nah, too Swedish. Suddenly, I've got a hankering for furniture store meatballs. BRB!

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.

[charles052]

Canonical dropped financial support of Kubuntu when it told Jonathan Riddell that it would no longer pay him to support Kubuntu. He was the only Canonical employee working on the project. Soon after that he quit. Eventually Blue Systems agreed to support continued Kubuntu development and hired Jonathan and several other Kubuntu developers. Emerge Open in the UK offers paid commercial support.

Thanks. I guess I read the article wrong. I was waiting or the bathroom when I read it.

[SteveRiley]

I thought that Canonical was starting to support Kubuntu more. I read an article in Linux Format about Kubuntu being a big deal for enterprise use or something and Canonical decided to support it. Was my assumption wrong?

Canonical dropped financial support of Kubuntu when it told Jonathan Riddell that it would no longer pay him to support Kubuntu. He was the only Canonical employee working on the project. Soon after that he quit. Eventually Blue Systems agreed to support continued Kubuntu development and hired Jonathan and several other Kubuntu developers. Emerge Open in the UK offers paid commercial support.

[charles052]

I thought that Canonical was starting to support Kubuntu more. I read an article in Linux Format about Kubuntu being a big deal for enterprise use or something and Canonical decided to support it. Was my assumption wrong?

[Feathers McGraw]

Netrunner? :-P

That was a great name. Shame they used it already =[

[mastablasta]

Netrunner? :-P

[richb]

kblu
kbluked
kdeblu
blukde
KbluDbluEblu (almost unpronounceable)

[woodsmoke]

Well BluKu comes to mind it kind of sounds like beaucoup (pronounced "boo koo" meaning "plenty".

woodbluevelvetsmoke

[NoWorries]

Um, how about.... iKDEa? Nah, too Swedish. Suddenly, I've got a hankering for furniture store meatballs. BRB!

Also with the meatballs, all the furniture is packaged in a flat-pack and you have to have basic skills to assemble it. Just like installing "Kubuntu" or whatever you want to call it.

Great to see such "thought" being put into an alternative name. What about a diversion to names that incorporate Blue Systems in the name rather than focusing on KDE and Debian.

On another related point, I have been puzzled for some time now as to who or why there are 5 stars on the title to this thread. Does anyone know the answer to this?

[Feathers McGraw]

Um, how about.... iKDEa? Nah, too Swedish. Suddenly, I've got a hankering for furniture store meatballs. BRB!

The ones with horsemeat in them? Lol

[SteveRiley]

Um, how about.... iKDEa? Nah, too Swedish. Suddenly, I've got a hankering for furniture store meatballs. BRB!

[woodsmoke]

I thought of these while on the trip to the American Chemical Society conference.

All of them involve, in some way, the letters "K", or "KDE"(not necessarily in that order, or "D" for Debian.

OR just may be a nice sounding word that implies motion, movement, etc.

Kinemaic
Diamante
Emprise
EmpriseUndertaKen
Flo
Konfluence
DeltaK
KalieDoscopE
KiDomEr...a takeoff on "Kitomer"
Kovariant
KuDOS .... KDE upon Debian OS
KoDEc
KenDo.........obvious takeoff on the oriental martial arts
aKcellerate
KaDet
Kosine
DeKa........... KDE backwards and inside out
KDIA
KANDE
KANOE
fabriK
roKa
Kartwheel............kind of a silly!
ROTA
KORDA
EKOS.........somewhat of a takeoff on "Oikos" the Greek for "house" and the science "Ecology"
DEKOS........... KDE inside out and backward
KORDA
DELKO
DELKOS
PLEKOS

KDEA came across my summat fatigued mind but I dismissed it for rather obvious reasons! LOL

woodcrossEDKsmoke

[woodsmoke]

LOL, I wasn't really serious about them, I was just trying to lighten the thread a little.. they refer to a certain film! lol But they have "K" in them! lol

woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

Dude. All in one day? LOL