Novell to Standardize on GNOME

Motor writes "In what must be one of the least unexpected announcements of recent times, Novell says that they are standardizing on one desktop rather than supporting two different codebases. From the article: 'Novell is making one large strategic change. The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Novell Linux Desktop line. KDE libraries will be supplied on both, but the bulk of Novell's interface moving forward will be on GNOME.'"

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You Misspelled a Word

[soloport]

"In Europe, you cannot konquer the Desktop market with Gnome."

Non-KDE-Centric fork of Kubuntu

[The Monster]

Kubuntu or Mandriva - both were pretty KDE-centric last time I checked them out.

Kubuntu is still KDE-centric, and probably will continue to be. But I hear there's talk of a GNOME-centric version of Kubuntu in the works. I wonder how that one's coming along....

Re:Non-KDE-Centric fork of Kubuntu

[mp3phish]

Maybe you are thinking of Ubuntu?

Just a thought. Maybe you didn't realise that Kubuntu is just a spin off of Ubuntu.

woosh!

[The Monster]

woosh!

explanation

[bcrowell]

For those not in the know, here's an explanation of what KDE and GNOME are:

GNOME: A desktop system whose libraries will never be finished, and whose ABIs change several times a week.

KDE: A desktop system whose applications have no documentation, print a lot of debugging information on stderr, and store their data in subdirectories 17 layers deep within ~/.kde.