Interview With The KDE And GNOME Release Managers

An anonymous reader writes "It has to be tough, keeping projects as big as GNOME and KDE organized, but that is the job given to those projects' 'release managers.' In an interview on Linux and Main, KDE's Dirk Mueller and GNOME's Jeff Waugh discuss their wacky, devil-may-care, hell-bent-for-leather, zany, fun-filled world -- the shadow, as T.S. Eliot put it, between the idea of a release and its reality."

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Re:Release manager for Gnome?

[Anonymous Coward]

I've always preferred KDE over gnome. maybe it was because with kde you just download qt and the 5-6 base archives (games, base, utils, etc), and make install, whereas with gnome you have to download and install 50 or 60 oddball libraries, many of which don't configure properly.

Also, I consider gtk to be ugly. That's my biggest complaint with gimp (obviously I'm not a graphics professional!)

However, I actually prefer gnome + sawmill over kde3. I think kde is better integrated, but it has too much of a "fake windows" feel (i like windows 2k, too!)

Hoever, I think kde and gnome are both obsolete. OS X has unix underpinnings, and Microsoft Unix Services For Windows 3.0 makes win 2k/xp full posix compliant, and includes all your favorite unix command line tools (including gcc!). We're actually phasing out most of our linux desktops in favor of win2k and usf! (We're still keeping some linux boxes for compatability testing and to run our samba/pop/smtp/web server).