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Window Maker 0.80 Released
An anonymous submitter points out that Window Maker, the window manager behind GNUStep, is now up to version 0.80. There is NEWS which describes some of the recent changes, as well as a Changelog.
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Linux has the potential to take over a small share of the enthusiast desktop marker. However standardizaion needs to occur and one window manager needs development to the point of having all the niceties that microsoft but without the bugs and secutriy holes. Which one will take over?
You will get flamed, because your are exposing the great lie of KDE.
The KDE project has long spammed every Linux board with propaganda and lies regarding both its speed and stability. Over the last year, such propagandising has focussed on Konqueror - to the extent of writing downright lies about its capabilities with regards to standards, its speed (it's slow, much slower than Mozilla with a lightwight skin) and stability (extremely poor, esp with anything other than very simple HTML).
You are correct about WindowMaker... but don't dismiss the GNOME project. Most of its advances happen outside the glare of publicity, and there isn't the same fanatic lamers surrounding it. But it is considerably more advanced than KDE in most areas - it's also much less bloated and doesn't require ugly hacks to reduce the time it takes to start. GNOME is a nice mixture of Windows and Unix - it takes the best from each (and there are some good things about Windows)... whereas KDE slavishly copies Windows, and indeed relies on a toolkit designed to reduce the Windows desktop to a bad copy of Windows.
Don't judge all desktop systems (ones which try to provide a developer with a full featured system to work with) by the shoddy state of KDE's codebase.