Re: Why are the corporates so anti-KDE ?



On 2005-12-28, Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-here@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Though it may well start one, my intention is not to start a Gnome vs. KDE
> flame war. I am just curious about why is the corporate world so
> pro-Gnome ?
>
> Redhat has always leaned towards Gnome, and it is standard on RHEL. SuSe
> used to be KDE centric, but after Novell bought it, Gnome is going to be
> the default environment from now on. Ubuntu, which while not being
> corporate, is heavily supported by one person, is Gnome-centric (Kubuntu
> being the KDE distro - the idea of having a distribution split for two
> different GUIs makes no sense to me).

gnome presents less options to confuse the new user; perhaps this is why?

Although Xandros and Linspire both use KDE for their desktops...

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John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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