UserLinux Continues Debate Over GUI

An anonymous reader writes "Following up the earlier Slashdot item on this, LinuxWorld is carrying both sides of the discussion as to whether UserLinux GUI should be GNOME only, as Bruce Perens last week decided "by fiat," or include KDE."

Comments

Gnome or KDE

[panxerox]

how bout a slashdot poll? 1. Gnome 2. Kde 3. Command line 4. Wine version of XP 5. Cowboyneil is my interface

Re:Gnome or KDE

[Anonymous Coward]

Opps, should be:

It is all under X-11, I can run Gnome apps under KDE fine, just using GNOME libraries.

Slashdot Poll?

[Crypto Gnome]

If we did a Slashdot POll, the winning choice would inevitably be:

All I have is a 9600bps serial line YOU INSENSITIVE BASTARD.

No kidding

[ultrabot]

I sense another Holy War incoming over this.

So you are saying that a holy war between Gnome and KDE will be coming? Proponents of various desktops trolling and flaming each other on Slashdot?

We are truly living interesting times.

Re:Why the licensing argument is bogus

[Gnulix]

>>The gtk file selector was a joke, for example)
>It's still a joke!

...and a bad one at that!

News Flash - UserLinux to use MS Windows kernel

[conradp]

This just in: Bruce Perens has decided that UserLinux will be built on top of Microsoft Windows instead of using the traditional Linux kernel. Perens, famed founder and leader of the Debian project, said yesterday: "Just like Qt, the Linux kernel is released under a GPL license, which requires developers modifying it to release their source code under the GPL. This prevents commercial solution developers from creating closed-source, proprietery kernel modifications, which would inhibit the adoption of UserLinux."

Perens reportedly approached Linux founder Linus Torvalds to request that he change the Linux kernel license from GPL to LGPL, in order to be more consistent with the GNOME license. Mr. Torvalds apparently refused, at which time Perens managed to negotiate favorable kernel licensing terms from Microsoft.

Mr. Perens had no comment in response to the claim by a spokesperson for TrollTech, the Norway-based company that develops Qt, that their code was actually "freer than Linux", since unlike the Linux kernel, developers can choose to license thier applications under either the GPL or TrollTech's proprietary license that allows close-source development.