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Ubuntu and Qt, MeeGo and GTK+

Ubuntu and Qt, MeeGo and GTK+

Posted Feb 6, 2011 12:34 UTC (Sun) by ctreb (subscriber, #4406)
In reply to: Ubuntu and Qt, MeeGo and GTK+ by salimma
Parent article: Ubuntu and Qt, MeeGo and GTK+

It seems your qualification is spot on. I loaded the Gnome live-cd of the apparently "KDE-centric" Mandriva and ran the following commands:

[user@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa|grep -i -e 'qt' -e 'kde'
liblockdev1-1.0.3-9mdv2010.1

[user@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa|grep -i gtk|wc -l
37
[user@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa|grep -i -e gnome|wc -l
71

Not one KDE or QT app or library vs. 37 gtk and 71 gnome packages. A very one-way street.
I've never properly used another KDE distro so I don't know how far this goes in the others.

I do agree with Priscus though. There's too many wide ranging statements in the media talking about Linux distributions when they are just talking about (or looking at) Ubuntu or Debian and their derivatives.

Great marketing.


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