Hi,
Thanks for you message, Volkan. I also noticed at some point that the
Ubuntu website says surprisingly little about the variants, even the
officially supported variants. I have an Edubuntu installation since
2007 and I'd appreciate better information as a basis for
decision-making between Ubuntu and Edubuntu and other variants.
It seems that there is some information about the interrelationship of
variants (or derivatives) but it is not easy to find. Dmitrijs already
brought up the link
http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/derivatives and I like how
the page
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives
presents a classification for the variants: "Official editions",
"Recognized flavors", "Customizations"... with a few words about what
each class is about.
Whereas the owner(s) of Ubuntu are doing well in allowing the
derivatives/variants to coexist peacefully with Ubuntu, it seems that
they prefer to keep ubuntu.com the home page of exactly Ubuntu rather
than an umbrella for the whole family of derivatives.
In theory, someone could make e.g. a wiki-styled documentation site
about the essential differences between derivatives, such as what you
can and what you can't install in a given derivative compared to the
main line of development (Ubuntu), but the challenge comes from how
swiftly these things change from release to release. And I'd guess that
most applications can be installed to any derivative, the difference
between derivatives being more about what is installed by default.
Vesa
25.01.2013 16:34, Volkan Gezer wrote:
I think most people don't know that Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu
versions are officially supported by Ubuntu.
I highly suggest you telling in download page something like that:
"Ubuntu is using Unity desktop environment.
We also have official distributions for KDE, XCFE .... environments too..."
to give a link to other official Ubuntu distros. You can also add a
page which users can reach in one click to these distributions and
comparison.
-Volkan
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