Canonical Ceases Funding of Kubuntu Development

This shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Jonathan Riddell, lead developer of the Kubuntu project and the only person paid by Canonical to work on the KDE variant of the popular distribution, has announced that after the 12.04 release, Canonical will no longer be funding him, effectively putting Kubuntu on the same level as other Ubuntu variants like Xubuntu.

Kubuntu has always been an afterthought within Canonical, and it showed - as far as KDE distributions go, it certainly wasn't among the best. Worse yet, despite being the only Ubuntu variant with financial support from Canonical, it wasn't even the best variant; Xubuntu always seemed like a more stable release than Kubuntu, for instance (in all fairness, Kubuntu has seen major strides forward recently).

Now, with the focus on Unity, tablets, mobile, and heck, even televisions, it seems Canonical really hasn't a single reason to invest in Kubuntu. Furthermore, Qt has been added to the default Ubuntu installation as well.

OS News has the details HERE!