History
Mark Shuttleworth, in an interview shortly after Ubuntu (which now uses the Unity desktop environment, previously having used GNOME) was started, stated:
I believe that the KDE community does phenomenal work, and having a community-driven distribution to showcase that work will help attract users and developers to the project. Our overall goal in the Ubuntu project is to further the adoption of free software on the desktop and the server, and we recognise that KDE is an essential part of the mix of desktop environments that allows people to find the best environment for their needs.The Kubuntu team released the first edition, Hoary Hedgehog, on April 8, 2005 (2005-04-08).
K Desktop Environment 3 was used as default interface until Kubuntu 8.04. That version included KDE Plasma Desktop as unsupported option which became default in the subsequent release, 8.10.
On February 6, 2012 (2012-02-06) Canonical employee Jonathan Riddell announced the end of Canonical’s Kubuntu sponsorship. On April 10, 2012 (2012-04-10) Blue Systems was announced on the Kubuntu website as new sponsor. As a result both developers employed by Canonical to work on Kubuntu – Jonathan Riddell and Aurélien Gâteau – transferred to Blue Systems.
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