One Ubuntu To Rule Them All
We have all seen Ubuntu emerge as the top distribution. You can argue the figures if you like, but by any standard that I have seen it is far and away the most popular distribution. This does not factor in the fact that Ubuntu’s user base is fragmented with its own distributions, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu and Ubuntu Studio. While this naming was once cute, it has lost its appeal for many people and it is further confused by people like me who use more than one and switch between the desktop environments as I feel like it. Am I an Ubuntu user or not? I am writing this on Kubuntu 9.04 but yesterday I was working on Ubuntu 8.10.
The biggest problem however is not the Canonical Ubuntu derivatives but the growing number of non-Canonical ones. It is time for all of this confusion to end. Canonical can help itself by establishing one brand name, Ubuntu, and anything but Ubuntu would then be a non-Canonical derivative. It is time that Kubuntu became Ubuntu KDE, Xubuntu became Ubuntu XFCE, Edubuntu became Ubuntu Education, Mythbuntu became Ubuntu Myth, and Ubuntu became Ubuntu Gnome. Ubuntu Studio does not need to change. Better still let them all be known as Ubuntu.
Then when I saw the name Fluxbuntu, I would know that it is not from Canonical. What of distributions that have Ubuntu in the name, such as Ubuntu Ultimate Edition or Super Ubuntu?
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