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Has GNOME Become LAME?

Posted by michael on from the minus-one-flamebait dept.

auferstehung writes "Nicholas Petreley (should that be KNicholas KPetreley) of LinuxWorld and VarLinux.org has taken his gloves off in the latest article in his KDE vs Gnome series. An unabashed KDE supporter, Petreley uses some choice fighting words in re-acronymizing GNOME as the Language Agnostic Morphable Environment (LAME) Franken-GUI. Despite the sensationalistic flamage throughout the article, several of his GNOME criticisms (Gconf, file selector, features) echo those already voiced within the GNOME community itself. A happy GNOME user myself, please someone...tell me it isn't so."

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  1. well... by Unominous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    my GNOME has always sat silently on my front porch. And now it's singing MP3s encoded with LAME?
    Who would've though that open source software would lead to a singing GNOME?

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  2. Re:Can't these kids grow up? by rseuhs · · Score: 4, Funny
    I am very tired of reading flame wars between Gnome and KDE.

    my desktop looks cluttered and Kalling Keverything Kfoo.Kbar Ketc Kgives Kme Kthe Kshits...

    You don't seem so tired of flame wars at all...

  3. Hey! by tortap-0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's GLAME to you mister.

  4. You know why he doesn't like Gnome? by Quelain · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nicholas Petreley is a raving loony creationist.

    Of course he's not going to like anything involving Evolution. Or bonobos, or any other s^hXimian.

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  5. GFlame you! by daemonc · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, KFlame you!!!

    GFlame!!!

    KFlame!!!

    GFlame!!!

    KFlame!!!

    GFlame!!!

    KFlame!!!

    GFlame!!!

    KFlame!!!

    I quit reading Slashdot...

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  6. Re:stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid!!! by kingkade · · Score: 3, Funny

    This stupid squabbling is pointless. Articles like this shouldn't even be published by a supposedly newsworthy organisation.

    That's why it's here on Slashdot.

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