Hi Jerry,
Jim Gettys from Digital/Compaq/HP was giving talks a few years ago talking about the birth, death and rebirth of the X Window System. Jim also sits on the board for both KDE and GNOME.
I thought that the X window system had started as a research project at MIT. So I wonder when and how did it die???
Competition is good for open software as it is for commercial >>software. Both KDE and GNOME are better today partially because they have to compete against themselves as well as Windoz. And, one thing we in >>the Linux community like is to have alternatives. If I get sick of my >>KDE desktop, I can always configure GNOME or go to one of the other >>window managers available.
One should never get sick of KDE. It is very flexible and is very user friendly. I find that KDE and Gnome are almost identical in look/feel to me anyway. Reinventing the wheel is never good, especially in software. The only difference between the 2 that I see is that I can make Gnome 1.4 crash while I still can't get KDE 3.0 to. But I did crash Konquerer... What a piece of crap browser...No disrepect to the developers but gosh... I think the world would be better off with just Mozilla (Firebird). ~~Nick _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!