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Lower Saxony KDE Migration
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet reports on a recent German Linux migration by the tax authority in Lower Saxony which has made the decision to migrate an impressive 12,000 desktops to SuSE Linux using KDE. The project, which is now in process converting 300 desktops daily, moves systems from Solaris x86 version 8, which the organisation has been running since 2002. The migrations are reported as going well thus far. KDE's Kiosk desktop customisation, source code access and licensing costs were cited as key reasons for the decision. Congratulations to all involved, and best of luck going forward with this effort!"
I noticed the K thing with KDE when I used SUSE and SLAX but I've not really noticed a "G" thing with Gnome... I'm strugling to think of anything really that I use that has the "G" thing... (well, there is Same GNOME... but thats not got G as a prefix)
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Gaim, IM Beagle, content indexer and search tool Galeon, Web Browser GARNOME, build utility for the GNOME Desktop GB, GNOME Basic GConf, GNOME Configuration Daemon GDM, GNOME Display Manager gdome2, GNOME DOM Engine Getix, XML editor gedit, Text Editor GNOME Fax, Faxing Software Gimp, Graphics package Glade, Interface Builder gnocl, Tcl binding GNOME DB, Generic database Interface GNOME Games, fun for your desktop GNOME-GCJ, Java bindings GNOME Useability Project GNOME Meeting, Video conferencing Software GNOME Network, Client Network-oriented Tools Gnome Python, Python Bindings GNOME Print, GNOME printing library GNOME System Tools, System Configuration GNOME Power Manager, System Configuration GNOME VFS, Filesystem Abstraction library GNU, GNU for which GNOME is sub-project Gnucash, Personal Finance Manager Gnumeric, Spreadsheet GOB, GNOME Object Builder Gossip, GNOME Jabber chat client Guppi, Charting application GStreamer, Multimedia Architecture GTK+, Graphical Toolkit Library GTK-Doc, API documentation tool gtkmm, C++ bindings GtkHTML 2, HTML rendering library GtkPerl, Perl Bindings Gtranslator, translation file editor Guikachu, resource editor for PalmOS applications GtkMathView, widget for MathML rendering, editing, interaction Gwget, Download Manager
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For those that don't know about KDE, it was started by a German guy and most KDE users and devs live in Germany (though it's now popular in other countries too), also Suse was German and used KDE as its main desktop. So lots of people are pushing KDE there just like they did at Munich and now in Lower Saxony.
I will be surprised when some country in Asia or America that is not known for its KDE community decides to switch to KDE.
That being said, it's of course great that did it in Germany.
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"Freely accessible sources, no license costs as well as optimum support of current hardware."
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I realized that sentence could be read in two ways:
optimum support for the hardware we're currently using
optimum support for hardware in mainstream use
Since he's focused on his own project, I would say a conservative opinion is that they happen to have a well supported standard configuration. That's great but not really anything exceptional.
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> I hate KDE because it uses QT. A tool that enforces your resulting work to be
> free doesnot really feel likes a free tool.
You are not forced at all to release your KDE software under GPL. Feel free to purchase a Qt license from Trolltech, and you can release your software under whatever license you want.