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Current Newswire: Amahi Linux Home Server 4.2 Matthias Ettrich Receives German Federal Cross of Merit Using Windows Is Like... Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Hands-on: OpenMoko WikiReader is simple, appealing Perl far from dead, more popular than you think Microsoft Exchange alternatives Kubuntu 9.10: A Mixed Bag Could Microsoft switch to Linux? Red Hat Virtualization Manager for Windows Only? Systems Implementation Engineer II – Disk-Based Back-Up/Replication/RedHat Linux (PA) Next Step Systems US-PA-Philadelphia Post A Job | Post A Resume The Linux Advocate: KDE vs. GNOME : Why Are We STILL Fighting? Aug 30, 2006, 02 :15 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (6374 reads) "We all know that the so called 'war' between KDE and GNOME has been raging now for a long time. Unfortunately, this competition seems to have fractured the Linux community into two (and more) warring camps, neither able to give an inch between them. People seem to either LOVE GNOME, or LOVE KDE. I have very rarely seen a middle ground. The question I pose today is the following: Is the competition between KDE and GNOME helping or hurting Linux in the long run; and if the latter; would the community be bettered if the two behemoth projects were to come together and merge into one giant linux-standard desktop...?" Complete Story Related Stories: Community: War Installing GNU/Linux or The Any Box: Do We Share The Hardware or Raise a Bridge?(Feb 07, 2006) InfoWorld: Linux on the Desktop... How Do We Cross the Chasm?(Jan 27, 2006) Gatchev: The One Desktop To Rule Them All(Jan 03, 2006) Weighing In on Torvalds, KDE, and GNOME(Dec 14, 2005) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   no need to be that far-reaching    wildpossum Aug 30, 2006, 02:55:09     merge?? WTF??    alice sysadmin Aug 30, 2006, 03:43:12     Does it matter? Really?    Benjamin Smith Aug 30, 2006, 06:45:29     Newsflash    Rainer Weikusat Aug 30, 2006, 08:23:08     AGAIN!!!!    petem Aug 30, 2006, 11:15:29     Re: merge?? WTF??    Mike R. Aug 30, 2006, 13:13:12     Why don't we ask Coke and Pepsi to merge?    Bill Peterson Aug 30, 2006, 15:32:52     Re: Re: merge?? WTF??    Bud Spud Aug 30, 2006, 15:36:27     Porsche has already dome that...    Greg Folkert Aug 30, 2006, 15:57:13     Re: Why don't we ask Coke and Pepsi to merge&#    con Aug 30, 2006, 16:04:27     You've not USED GNOME and it shows.    Greg Folkert Aug 30, 2006, 16:07:21     Re: Does it matter? Really?    Toby Haynes Aug 30, 2006, 19:17:42     i agree    patrick_darcy Aug 31, 2006, 02:03:47     Re: Porsche has already dome that...    Peter Yellman Aug 31, 2006, 04:27:06     Despite KDE and GNOME, Linux is Linux    Roni M. Oliva Aug 31, 2006, 14:18:45     We need a monopoly!    Eric Laffoon Aug 31, 2006, 17:59:37     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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