An Early Look at Ubuntu Hoary [LWN.net]

An Early Look at Ubuntu Hoary

Posted Jan 27, 2005 15:47 UTC (Thu) by yokem_55 (guest, #10498)
Parent article: An Early Look at Ubuntu Hoary

"With its clean desktop, excellent internationalization, and less complex (compared to KDE) configuration options, GNOME, now backed by Red Hat, Novell and Ubuntu, has matured into a worthy competitor to KDE which, at one point, seemed to be winning the desktop battle."

First of all, I believe this type of comment would be better placed in review and comparision of desktop enviromnents and not necessarily in a distribution review. Two, as far as Novell is concerned, while the Ximian folks are putting development work into the Gnome side of things, when it comes time to actually ship distro, Novell fully supports both KDE and Gnome.

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An Early Look at Ubuntu Hoary

Posted Jan 28, 2005 7:00 UTC (Fri) by edomaur (subscriber, #14520) [Link]

Yep, I totally agree with yokem_55

Ok, I'm more a KDE person, but talking of "winning the desktop battle" is complete bs. There is no such battle, only concurrence. After all, what prevent the user of a desktop to use softwares from the other ? And about complexity : what if it was what the user prefer ?

Still, that kind of comment is somewhat out of topic when speaking distros.