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  Kubuntu Developer Jonathan Riddell Interviewed
Interviews Posted by canllaith on Wednesday 12/Apr/2006, @20:20
from the how-can-anyone-not-be-a-james-bond-fan dept.
Inspired by the People Behind KDE series, Behind Ubuntu gives us a peek into the lives of contributers to Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu. The first episode honours our very own Jonathan Riddell, KDE contributer and lead Kubuntu developer. Jonathan shares with us details of his work and reveals elements of his personal life, passions and plans for the future.


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Get a raise!
by reihal on Thursday 13/Apr/2006, @00:53
You poor laddie, not even a chair to sit on.
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deep friend
by ivor on Thursday 13/Apr/2006, @01:34
"Deep friend pizza supper"
as opposed to shallow friends?
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Kubuntu protest
by Gerd on Thursday 13/Apr/2006, @06:08
As far as I understand the German Kubuntu team is currently fed up with Kubuntu, they even launched a protest site on www.kubuntu.de

What goes wrong?
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  • Re: Kubuntu protest
    by Jonathan Riddell on Thursday 13/Apr/2006, @08:24
    See my responses and my blog.

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/2006-April/004871.html
    http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1917
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    • Re: Kubuntu protest
      by dusty on Friday 14/Apr/2006, @10:20
      How about a little courtesy, Jonathan? Your comments on the kubuntu-users list are a bit unkind. Not to mention your "Move Along, Nothing to See" post. Why is Canonical allowing you to be the public face of Kubuntu?


      Some examples:

      Poor Jane is a busy person, she probably doesn't much wish to ansewr
      random accusationary e-mails.
      ...
      I don't know the details here, it sounds like personalities are
      getting in the way.
      ...
      As I see it you have no valid complains in this list so please reopen
      kubuntu.de. (From talking to other German Kubuntu users they seem to
      suggest that they'll just start using ubuntuusers.de if this nonsense
      continues.)

      Jonathan
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      • Re: Kubuntu protest
        by Jonathan Riddell on Saturday 15/Apr/2006, @06:37
        All of those comments are factually correct (from my point of view anyway) and not rude. What's unkind?
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        • Re: Kubuntu protest
          by Philip on Saturday 15/Apr/2006, @22:13
          Don't even give them the time of day, Jonathan. They aren't following the Code of Conduct, and didn't go through the proper Ubuntu dispute channels.
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          • Re: Kubuntu protest
            by Bert on Tuesday 18/Apr/2006, @03:44
            I think Germans are angry about the attempts of ximian to cripple SuSe as a KDE distro. It is like people felt invaded by Gnome imperialism.
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  • Re: Kubuntu protest
    by petteri on Friday 14/Apr/2006, @05:40
    Don't think you noticed (atleast I missed at first glance) that after the german manifesto there is also english one. Good explanations about the situation there.
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Kubuntu Rocks
by Elijah Lofgren on Friday 14/Apr/2006, @19:48
I use Kubuntu and I'd like to say thanks to Jonathan Riddell for working so hard to make Kubuntu the best KDE distro that I've tried.
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  • Re: Kubuntu Rocks
    by Per on Tuesday 17/Apr/2007, @16:01
    Kubuntu is a very nice distro and I use it as my second OS. I much prefer Mandriva's 2007 versions though. Kubuntu will need to evolve (especially graphically - The little things) to compete with MDV 2007.1 in my opinion.
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Dennis the Menace
by Anon on Sunday 16/Apr/2006, @17:16
>> Favourite comic?
> The Beano with Dennis the Mennis.

That should be "Dennis the Menace"
http://www.waplingtons.freeserve.co.uk/dennis.jpg
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My Compliments
by Tim on Monday 17/Apr/2006, @04:56
As far as i can tel and experience K-UBUNTU works great
I think it makes Debian usefull for those who like me
are less experienced whit linux.
The worst anemy of LINUX getting tho peoples desktop is
that everybody has his own opinion about how to deal with
a problem.
Should i work with GNOME or KDE i think, who cares it is my desktop
be happy with the posibility of being able tho choose
The British stil drive on the left side of the road,
and i am not complaining.
Leave everybody in its own value i can only say thanks to those
who develop al those beautifull things for all of us to use for free.
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  • Re: My Compliments
    by Don on Thursday 20/Apr/2006, @02:52
    Hello Tim,
    You are so right my friend. Let's be thankfull to those people who have been working so hard to give us Linux (any distro),also giving us the freedom to choose between Gnome and Kde. Both desktops are really tops!
    I've been switching back and forth and I can't make up my mind which is better.
    So I have installed Kubuntu adding to it Ubuntu, and I have the pleasure of enjoying both since I can switch back and forth.
    Variety is the spice of life, they say.

    Thanks again to all those people who generously spend their time and money to give
    everybody the opportunity to enter the 'Wonderful World of Linux'
    A newbie
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