On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Ted Gervais wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Bogdan Taru wrote: > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I just wanted you to know that I downloaded & compiled KDE today and it is > > GREAT! Even if it 'eats' a lot of resources, it's really neat! I didn't expect > > to find something so nice (GUI) in Linux... > > What is it? Sounds interesting. KDE stands for KDE Desktop Environment. It consists of a window manager, a file manager, a toolbar, lots of utilities... You can find more info at www.kde.org. One word of warning : if you don't like flamewars, don't tell anybody you use it. There is a licencing problem with KDE. KDE uses the Qt toolkit from TrollTech, which is not Open Source, so some people think it is wrong to use it, although it can be used for free (you can't change it and distribute your changes). On the other hand, TrollTech has signed an agreement stating that if they ever make it non-free (in the sense of money), or stop working on (i think), the latest version (at that moment) gets released under the BSD licence. Personally, I don't have much problems with this, but in some contexts flames can start rapidly. Frank > > ---- > Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >
