On Monday 23 October 2006 04:10, Robert J. C. Himmelmann wrote: [...] > Gnome needs less resources and is generally considered faster.
Benchmark tests reported at http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/ show KDE as doing better than GNOME. Things may have changed in the interim or have they? [...] > What would be useful would be a clearer choice: I.e.: Someone when > someone wants do download a CD he gets a text like "There are three > different desktop enviroments you can use. All three together do > not fit on one CD, so you have to decide know which one you want to > download. If you are new to Linux you might find the first one the > best". Agreed, when we first scored Kubuntu we didn't understand the difference but it appealed immediately once tested (cf. Ubuntu) mainly for its configurability. I've since moved onto Mepis but the kids have stayed with Kubuntu, however I'm looking seriously at Arch via Underground, the packages are more bleeding edge and once installed there is no new version reinstall required. http://archlinux.org/ http://archlinux.org/about/ http://underground.geekcode.info/portal/posts/view/about [...] Cheers... Rex
