If I remember correctly, the story really evolved around lowering budgeting costs from MS to a lower cost solution (not anything to do with a Solaris battle). Suse being HQ in German kinda helped in that discussion. KDE was one of the primary desktops so it kinda went in that direction.
Both KDE and GNOME have their merits and I'd hope any desktop OS environment would allow the consumers to use applications from either desktop environment. China and most Asian countries didn't choose Suse for its OS selection. I'd think even if a government or education institute chooses one desktop environment over another, they provide the libraries needed to run applications from the other major desktop environment. The benefit of BOTH GNOME and KDE is in the modern open source applications developed for those desktop environments. Really, having both GNOME and KDE available is a better choice in the long run as it opens up more open source software to the consumer no matter which major UNIX desktop environment they chose in the end. Ken Mays --- Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 16:52 +0100, Joerg Schilling > wrote: > > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I woudn't underestimate Linus's Torvalds > opinion... A lot of OSS > > > developers looking at what he is saying and > following him no matter > > > what. I agree it will not change picture much, > but KDE will definetly > > > benefit from newcomers.. > > > > How many catholics will avoid to use the pill just > because the pope > > recommends not to use it? > > Who knows? > > But the point is, KDE is quite mature and widely > used, and decent > OpenSolaris-based distro must have it *integrated* > (i.e. not just like > third-party /opt/csw...). > > btw, NexentaOS Alpha 2 will have it integrated and > derived from > Kubuntu/Breezy. > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
