UserLinux May Go Without KDE

Anonymous BillyGoat writes "For the past few days, there has been considerable debate at the UserLinux mailing list about the (proposed) non-inclusion of KDE in the distro. The KDE developers have written a proposal opposing the decision to go with GNOME as the sole UserLinux GUI, while Bruce Perens has posted a response."

Comments

Time to change the name

[harlows_monkeys]

Time to change the name to IrrelevantLinux. BlueCurve indeed makes KDE and GNOME look a lot like, but good user interface is about a lot more than just looking pretty. More people find KDE to be better.

A distro without KDE is not going to get very far.

Re:KDE is not to be ignored

[shoor]

Emacs an early attempt to mimic YACC? I don't think so. The attempt to mimic YACC (and a successful one too, IMHO) is Bison. Emacs started out as some macros for some system that I've never used and don't know much about, but I think, even in its earliest incarnation, its purpose was text editing, whereas YACC is a tool for creating parsers for LALR computer grammers. Of course, emacs has grown to include other functionality as well, but even now, so far as I know, it's not a parser generator.