Since Bantu grammar involves prefixes to form noun classes, and the prefix ku- has the meaning 'toward' in Bemba, kubuntu is therefore also a meaningful Bemba word or phrase translating to 'toward humanity'. Ubuntu is a Bantu term translating roughly to 'humanity'. It is derived from the name Ubuntu, prefixing a K to represent the KDE platform that Kubuntu is built upon (following a widespread naming convention of prefixing K to the name of any software released for use on KDE platforms), as well as the KDE community. 'Kubuntu' is a registered trademark held by Canonical. During the changeover, Kubuntu retained the use of Ubuntu project servers and existing developers.
Now, employees of Blue Systems contribute upstream to KDE and Debian, and Kubuntu development is led by community contributors. until 2012, and then directly by Blue Systems. Kubuntu shares the same repositories as Ubuntu and is released regularly on the same schedule as Ubuntu. As part of the Ubuntu project, Kubuntu uses the same underlying systems. Kubuntu ( / k ʊ ˈ b ʊ n t uː/ kuu- BUUN-too) is an official flavor of the Ubuntu operating system that uses the KDE Plasma Desktop instead of the GNOME desktop environment. Community-driven, previously Blue Systems / Canonical Ltd.Ģ3.10 ( Mantic Minotaur) / October 17, 2023 3 months ago ( )
