Red Hat Introduces Desktop Linux Competitor

[Gregory G Carter]

I could say the reason why RedHat dislikes KDE and goes for GNOME is 
because GNOME developers do not understand OOP methdologies and are 
simpletons....

But that would start a fight.  :-)

You also have to understand the reason why both desktops exist in the 
first place.  Qt which powers KDE's environment initally had licensing 
issues and I think that sorta burned a lot of people.  All the burned 
people go together and created GTK, which powers GNOME.

Qt is fully GPL'ed on the Linux platform, but not on Windows.  Windowsn 
will be going away soon anyway so that isn't a big deal.

:-)

But seriously, I would like the LSB project to step in here and say the 
official LSB standard is GNOME and KDE and the standard requires 
interoperability and more importantly a choice for end users.

I think it comes down to everyone trying to be the Linux Desktop of the 
future choice.  It is easier for end users if you don't mix and match 
GNOME and KDE applications to prevent confusion.

GNOME is certainly EASIER to install than KDE, which is farm more 
complex than GNOME to build and install from scratch, let alone 
configure after it is installed in the first place.

Perhaps the choice was simply based on Utility....

-gc

PS: I prefer KDE.  :-)

jim tate wrote:

> Why is it, that Redhat so dislikes KDE? the number one
> choice of linux users.
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1583814,00.asp
>
> I read this article, and I assumed that they will still offer KDE
> as a optional install in Fedora2.
> Every time Redhat makes a move, it's counter to the majority of
> the linux community. I am for them making money and staying
> in business, but WOW the way they go about it.
>
> Jim Tate
>
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