Is the Ubuntu range too large?

[beetleman64]

Am I the only person who thinks that the current Ubuntu range is too big? After all, having Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, UNE, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Server and possibly even Lubuntu.

To be honest, I would cut it down to Ubuntu, Ubuntu Netbook Edition, Ubuntu Server and maybe Xubuntu/Lubuntu and cut the rest.

[MichealH]

Well have you seen the amount of front-ends for Debian compared to Ubuntu?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU/Linux_distributions#Debian-based <-- Debian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU/Linux_distributions#Ubuntu-based <-- Ubuntu

Also In my opinion the more, the better because people will have a distro that suits them. I use Windows but only because I have to if I could scrap it because there is rarely any customizes thus it is not suited

[NCLI]

Am I the only person who thinks that the current Ubuntu range is too big? After all, having Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, UNE, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Server and possibly even Lubuntu.

To be honest, I would cut it down to Ubuntu, Ubuntu Netbook Edition, Ubuntu Server and maybe Xubuntu/Lubuntu and cut the rest.

Only Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, UNE & Kubuntu have Canonical developers assigned to them, and Kubuntu has very few.

In other words: Canonical does not have the power to tell people that they can't make their own version of Ubuntu, and really doesn't lose anything on it.

[cascade9]

I dont really see a problem with there bering several different *buntus myself. They make sense, and in some ways I think there should fluxbuntu back, and a E17 buntu as well.


Well have you seen the amount of front-ends for Debian compared to Ubuntu?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU/Linux_distributions#Debian-based <-- Debian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU/Linux_distributions#Debian-based <-- Ubuntu

Also In my opinion the more, the better because people will have a distro that suits them. I use Windows but only because I have to if I could scrap it because there is rarely any customizes thus it is not suited

Ummm..they are not a lists of 'front ends', they are lists of distros 'based on'. Since ubuntu is based on debain, you could say that both links are debian based distros.

BTW, wrong 2nd link, you wanted this-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU/Linux_distributions#Ubuntu-based

Also, you can customise windows. Its not easy to remove a lot of stuff from windows as it is from mostlinux distros, but it can be done.

[98cwitr]

I think linux distros are too large as a whole and should be cut back and their focus brought to more centralized distros...apparently my philosophy goes against what is considered to be open-source philosophy and I am just apparently not drawing the conclusions :popcorn:

[MichealH]

there should fluxbuntu back

I could update it myself :D

Oh and I may try the E17 too!

[mickie.kext]

I think they should stuff Ubuntu and Kubuntu on same DVD, like Fedora. Also maybe put Lubuntu in there. And some more nice programs like GIMP, Blender and Ardour to make Ubuntu Studio not needed.

[Shakz]

Woah there....cut Kubuntu? No way. I cant stand KDE but a lot of folks love it! I think all these versions are great...variety inspires innovation. I personally use Xubuntu and am bout to switch that install to Lubuntu. I run ubuntu on my nicer machines. I use all these distros! :-)

[BrokenKingpin]

I think they should only deliver Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, and Ubuntu netbook. They should still have KDE and other desktop environments in the repos, just not available as a separate distro.

[NMFTM]

I think that Ubuntu should cut all official support for Kubuntu and Xubuntu. Because it is primarily a Gnome centric distro and Canonical's resources would be better spent focusing on one desktop environment rather than three. If people want to install Ubuntu and replace Gnome with Kde/Xfce or fork an unofficial DE-centric derivative distro, great. But it's better to pour limited resources into one project and have one great project rather than spread them out over three and have three good projects.