“… the buzz around Linux and the open-source software movement
is reaching a feverish pitch…”
“… the biggest barrier to wider adoption of Unix operating
systems… is the lack of a really user-friendly graphical front
end for users and developers. Writing applications for the
X-Windows environment is not anywhere as easy as it is to build
Windows or Mac applications, and then deploying and using them
require skill sets that most users don’t have. So front ends like
GNOME and KDE are extremely important to the future of the Unix
desktop…”