KDE vs. GNOME on F10

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Aug 7 02:21:56 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 12:30 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 12:06 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > OK, bad example, but you know what I mean.
> 
> Yes, I do, and I think there is room for a Fedora offering that is
> released frequently (every 6 months), supported for about a year, with
> conservative updates to the platform.  That's nearly exactly what we
> have in Fedora Desktop.  There is also room for a Fedora offering that
> is released frequently (every 6 months), supported for about a year,
> with aggressive updates to the latest and greatest for the platform.
> That's nearly exactly what we have in Fedora KDE.
> 
> The real problem is going to be when somebody wants to make an offering
> that features GNOME but has aggressive updates to latest and greatest
> GNOME on every update stream, as that cannot coexist with the
> conservative Fedora Desktop.

The other problem is if you'd like stable updates but you prefer KDE, or
vice versa =)

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