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OfB.biz: Of Large Cats and Fuzzy Penguins

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 21, 2005

[ Thanks to Timothy R. Butler for this
link. ]

“Last week I promised to demonstrate why I am not a GNOME zealot
simply looking to try to give KDE a hard time. In actuality, I
don’t use GNOME much at all, these days. Or KDE. I do keep up with
them, but my actual desktop home is elsewhere. ‘Hey, Clippit! Stop
staring at me.’

“OK, I will admit that was a cheap lead in, but not entirely
untruthful. I am typing this story from Microsoft Windows XP. This
is only a temporary predicament, though, that I will explain more
about in a future column…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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