According to polls on the forums, xubuntu is almost as commonly used as kubuntu ... I can't say if it is accurate or not, but someone had to vote for us to make it so.
Yes Jani, that clears alot up.. thank you. -Adam On 1/11/07, Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It would probably be a milestone to gather a user base large enough to be "officially supported" :D On 1/11/07, Cody Somerville < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jani: Is it a goal of ours to become "officially supported" like the > other two derivatives? > > On 1/11/07, Jani Monoses < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The term supported is vague and this leads to misunderstandings. > > > > The dev quoted by Cody, heno (Henrik Nilssen Omma) was right: > > xubuntu is supported by sharing the same archive as the 3 main > > variants, > > by having its developers in MOTU and/or ubuntu-core-dev, by > > providing > > ISO build facilities and not least by 'unofficial' good will from many > > canonical devs who take xubuntu issues in consideration when working > > on > > u/k/edubuntu specific stuff. > > > > What it does not mean is financial backing from Canonical apart from > > bandwidth and the implicit developer time their employees spend on > > Xubuntu specific stuff. So no 24/7 commercial support for customers or > > pressed CDs. > > > > And this makes a lot of sense from their POV as long as xubuntu has a > > relatively small community (distrowatch is a misleading metric) and > > they > > want to keep focused. > > > > So having daily images by no means makes xubuntu supported. For > > instance > > those dailies could be broken AFAIK since there are no people testing > > them regularly.That would be risky to support. > > > > The best way you can make xubuntu better is by contributing your time > > and not wait for canonical or someone else to bear all the costs. > > > > I hope this clears it up. > > > > Jani > > > > > > -- > > xubuntu-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > > > > > -- > > > Firefox (www.getfirefox.com ) -- A browser you can trust > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > > -- Vincent -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
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