Works so well, in fact...

Post #233,746

11/12/05 10:17:36 AM

...that they're dumping it as the default desktop on their enterprise offerings.

Post #233,748

by Another Scott

11/12/05 10:49:44 AM

Skip uses Mepis. Mepis isn't dropping KDE.

[link|http://www.mepis.org/node/8232|Mepis.org]:

SimplyMEPIS 3.3.2 was replaced with Simply 3.3.3, which is a great build and includes OpenOffice.org 2.0 and Mozilla Thunderbird. I'm sorry most of you won't have the chance to use it, as Simply 3.4 is now in the works and should be available as a test in a few days. This new version will incorporate some new stuff: KDE 3.4, OpenOffice.org 2.0, and Xorg.

If you're referring to SuSE, well, SJVN says [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885013,00.asp|KDE's not dead yet]:

OK, so "Why GNOME? Why?"

Well, that one's pretty easy to answer. Novell bought Ximian, GNOME's parent company, back in 2003. And, while there are a lot of KDE supporters within SUSE, KDE has never been the heart and soul of SUSE the way GNOME was for Ximian.

So, when push finally came to shove, GNOME's supporters were in a better position than KDE's within Novell to make the final call.

"Is this the end of KDE!?"

Where do these questions come from! Of course, not!

It's not even the end of KDE at Novell. The community-supported SUSE Desktop is going to continue to support both. KDE's libraries, at the least, will still be in SLES and NLD.

What is true, however, is that GNOME is becoming the choice of desktop interfaces for the big name Linux/Unix companies: Novell, Red Hat, and Sun.

So it seems to be a decision based on things other than "GNOME's better than KDE".

FWIW.

Cheers,
Scott.

Post #233,806

by imric

11/12/05 6:17:35 PM

Yeah and did you see the uproar from the users at Novell

When they announced that the default would be Gnome?

I did not read ONE POST, not ONE that liked the move.

Novell has had to ensure that they continued to include KDE and would support it, on the fear of mass defection of their users. This in spite of the logic of the move, given Novell+Ximian.

Oh yeah. Enterprise solution providers love Gnome, especially those enterprise solution providers that eschew the desktop, like Red Hat.

Of course, I'm sure that Gnomes will find some rationalisation on why those users should be ignored. Probably that users that have problems or needs beyond what Gnome provides aren't 'targeted' or some such nonsense.

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Post #233,918

by ubernostrum

11/13/05 5:33:24 PM

s/users/KDE developers/

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Post #233,959

by imric

11/13/05 9:45:56 PM

According to YOU.

A singularly unreliable source, IMO.

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