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Heise Online: LinuxTag: Ubuntu Offers Three Desktops

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 8, 2006

“In his keynote address at the LinuxTag conference, Ubuntu head
Mark Shuttleworth not only spoke about his concept of Open Source
software, but also revealed a few details about the new version of
the Linux distribution he initiated–‘Dapper Drake’ is expected to
be released on June 1. It is expected to offer users three desktops
to choose from: Gnome, the KDE used in Kubuntu, and Xfce in
Xubuntu. The latter desktop is considered to have a wide range of
functions and nonetheless run smoothly on old hardware.

“Shuttleworth said he was confident that the three certificates
for the corporate use of VMware, IBM DB2, and MySQL will soon
follow…”

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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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