Blue Systems

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Blue Systems
legal form GmbH
Seat Bielefeld
management Clemens Toennies Jr.
Branch Free software
Website blue-systems.com

Blue Systems is a German software - companies that in 2012 the development of Kubuntu took over after Canonical had ceased official support, but these in turn gave, 2015. Similar to Canonical, Blue Systems was founded by a philanthropic multimillionaire with the aim of supporting Linux and free software . Several well-known KDE developers are employed by Blue Systems. According to employed software developer Aurélien Gâteau, Blue Systems did not yet have a “business model” in 2012 with which they could make a profit.

background

Blue Systems was founded by the German businessman Clemens Tönnies Jr. He is the son of the late Bernd Tönnies , who founded the large meat production company Tönnies Lebensmittel in 1971. Clemens Tönnies Jr. inherited 25% of the Tönnies Lebensmittel company, but left it and transferred the shares to his brother Robert, who now owns 50%. The other 50% are owned by the deceased's brother, Clemens Tönnies Sr., who was also the chairman of FC Schalke 04 .

The IT website Golem.de published a feature in July 2012 about Tönnies Jr., according to which he studied computer science , was 36 at the time and was described as a philanthropist .

history

Blue Systems first made a name for itself with the Kubuntu-based Linux distribution Netrunner, which was first released in March 2010.

In February 2012, Clement Lefebvre from the Ubuntu / Kubuntu-based Linux Mint distribution announced that Blue Systems would sponsor the KDE variant of Mint.

After Canonical withdrew support for Kubuntu in February 2012, Blue Systems took over this role for the release cycle 12.10, which began in May 2012.

Blue Systems continued to get attention when they hired nine KDE developers during 2012. These include Jonathan Riddell and Aurélien Gâteau, former Canonical employees who were hired in April 2012, and long-time KWin developer Martin Grässlin, who announced in October 2012 that he would be moving to Blue Systems to work full-time at KWin from January 2013 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kubuntu. In: Wiki from ubuntuusers.de. Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Scarlett Clark: Beta? In: kubuntu-devel mailing list. March 24, 2016, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Sebastian Grüner, Jörg Thoma: Clemens Tönnies: The new philanthropist behind Kubuntu. In: Golem.de. July 6, 2012, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Thorsten Gödecker, Jörg Rinne: Family dispute at Tönnies paralyzes the slaughterhouse. In: nw.de . September 12, 2012, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ About Tönnies. In: Toennies.com. Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
  6. ^ Netrunner 1.0 (Albedo). In: netrunner.com. March 18, 2010, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Linux Mint signs a partnership with Blue Systems . Linux Mint. January 7, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
  8. ↑ Blue Systems becomes Linux Mint partner and sponsor . H-online.com. January 9, 2012. Archived from the original on January 16, 2012. Retrieved on May 9, 2014.
  9. ↑ Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu Status. In: kubuntu-devel mailing list. February 6, 2012, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  10. ^ Kubuntu to be Sponsored by Blue Systems. Kubuntu, April 10, 2012, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ignat Semenov: Polishing KDE: Folder View Fixes Part I . February 20, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
  12. ↑ Shaun Reich (sreich): Runners? Internets? YouTube? Both ( Memento from March 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Explore applications with Muon Discover . April 27, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  14. ↑ Àlex Fiestas: Joining the Blue . June 4, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  15. ↑ Vishesh Handa ( Memento from June 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ^ Joining Blue Systems . July 25, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  17. ^ Blue Systems, the Muon Suite, and Kubuntu . August 19, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  18. ↑ KDE Telepathy 0.5 released . August 29, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
  19. ^ A b Aurélien Gâteau: Into the blue. April 11, 2012, Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
  20. ^ Martin Grässlin: KWin Hacking ++ . October 7, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2012.