I just installed KDE on my linux box, and none of the libraries are
commercial. I was able to get everything free from KDE.org. I believe that
QT used to be commercial, but it has now been Opensourced (I am not sure
about GPL'ed or not). And, They have binaries and sources. Since I am
using a Slackware distribution, I got the sources. It takes a while to
compile the sources, but once compiled, everything has worked pretty well...
Tim
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Timothy Hughes
Associate Technical Analyst
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dustin Oakley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 9:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: The 'best' x manager
>
>
> ---David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2) KDE. This is a combo windowmanager and desktop. It has a
> very good
> > look and feel, but does a lot of stuff which makes it slower than
> > Windowmaker. It's desktop is somewhere between Windows95
> and OS/2 4.0
> > in functionality. It's file manager is probably the
> simplest out there
> > but it still packs a wallop!
>
> Is it still true that KDE uses some non-GNU, commercial libraries, or
> is it now free/opensource?
> What about GNOME? Or is it not far enough along to be a real
> contender?
> Thanks.
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