With SUSE 8.0, I prefer to use Gnome - it loads faster on my box than KDE. What's going on with Gnome that Makes it less desirable than KDE? I'm a few versions behind, so bear with me.
Don
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Subject: re[2]: [SLE] NOVELL TO UNLEASH LINUX DESKTOP IN FALL
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:44:16 -0400
From: Greg Freemyer
On Monday 09 August 2004 14:32, Fred Miller wrote:
NOVELL TO UNLEASH LINUX DESKTOP IN FALL
Novell demonstrated a prototype called the Novell Linux Desktop last week at LinuxWorld. The corporate Linux desktop merges technology acquired from SuSE Linux and Ximian Corp and is due to ship in the fall.
Man, I hope they don't blow it. I have been *so* put off of Gnome(after being a vocal advocate many versions ago) - I've come to really embrace KDE. On the surface, this appears to be a sway of technologies based on acquisitions rather than common sense, although the Mono aspect of it makes a lot of sense. Mono and Gnome are tied at the hip, of course.
I would go back to Gnome if they lost the condescending attitude towards the user re: window manager and other things. I really don't like running both Gnome and KDE in the same session - too much bloat...and one of the things I liked about Pro 9.1 was the focus on KDE. Are they being distracted away from the better desktop?
Time will tell...
J.C.
P.S. I don't mean to start a Gnome/KDE flame war - I know each has it's strengths and lots of users like Gnome. That's cool - that's why I love Linux: choice. I just started to have problems when one of the main architects behind it told me that application developers would need to recode their app to work around Metacity's lack of configurability. :P
I went to a Novell presentation about a month ago. They said that SUSE was likely to remain a KDE focused distro. The new "Novell Desktop" is not a distro, but just a desktop. I'm sure it will be compatible with SUSE, but also Redhat, etc. They said that Novells goal is to have Novell Desktop running on a third of all Linux desktops!!!!! So if you want to stick with KDE you should have no problem with using the normal SUSE releases. What I would like to know is what level of support is going to come with the Novell Desktop. Support is really what they are selling, so I hope it is more than just the install support that comes with SUSE. Greg -- Web Developer Matheteuo Christian Fellowship webdev@matheteuo.org http://matheteuo.org/ Running MS Windows + Office = $400 Running Linux + OpenOffice.org = $0 Celebrating as you delete your format your Windows drive = PRICELESS