[KLUG Members] Lindows

[Adam Williams]

> > I'm waiting to see if that is something we can possibly add to our
> > SLA  with Novell next year.
> > Which reminds me, I talked to a Novell engineer and tossed out my 
> > prediction that all the user desktop prefs on a Ximian desktop
> > would eventually be stored in the directory and he just smiled and did
> > not disagree. He didn't confirm it either, but it seemed like I might
> > have hit on something...
> Hmmmmm good for Gnome but not as good for those of us that run the
> better desktop environment (Should KDE be renamed to BDE???? <grin>)
> I would prefer to see Novell support both desktop environments but do
> not see that happening.  I know that if I ever decide to start a
> company pushing Linux on the desktop I would standardize on KDE.

It simply isn't possible to support both.  GNOME spent a great deal of
effort on backend stuff like gconf, bonobo, etc... and used serious core
infrastructure (CORBA).  KDE went for the UI and end-user features, thus
it seemed to evolve faster.  I think we are already seeing GNOMEs
investment in foundational technologies start to turn the tables; Mono
and the Bonobo/UNO [the Open Office API model] bridge will only
accelerate this. 

IMHO.