| Ubuntu founder cozies up to KDE |
May 13, 2006
Ubuntu/Kubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth of UK-based Canonical Ltd. told the LinuxTag conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, last week that he believes the KDE desktop is vital to his company's long-term strategy, KDE team member Sebastian Kügler reported on the KDE website.
"Canonical wants to create a free, professional economic eco-system and help to develop and transport KDE's vision of the future of the free desktop," Shuttleworth was quoted as saying. "Starting with Dapper Drake, the next release of Kubuntu to be released at the beginning of June, Canonical will ship CD sets of Kubuntu in the same manner as it did with Ubuntu in the past."
Shuttleworth said that Canonical has created some tools to make free software developer communities more scalable, like Rosetta and Malone. Ubuntu's vision includes offering multiple desktops, "because it is a healthy way for a sustainable future that those desktop environments should work great together. Tighter integration of Canonical's collaboration tools with [for example, KDE's bugzilla,] is another key point of the collaboration in the future," Shuttleworth said, according to the report.
Canonical is committed to connecting the source code vision of a project such as KDE to a user- and market-centric vision of Ubuntu, Shuttleworth said. The company will invite a number of contributors from different parts of the KDE project to the next developers' meeting in June in Paris, where the next Kubuntu release -- code-named "Edgy Eft" -- will be started, the report said.
You can read Kügler's full report here.
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