[ Thanks to steve
hill for this link. ]
“There is nothing more guaranteed to ignite a bad tempered,
incandescent flame war that an outbreak of hostilities between the
rival Gnome and KDE camps. Well, except perhaps a slanging match
between the champions of the GUI and the command line. Enter stage
left the compromise candidate which might just unite the warring
factions: Hotwire.“Whenever I first stumbled across upon Hotwire (released under
the GPL 2 for the user interface and a permissive MIT-style licence
for everything else), certain childhood rhymes sprang irresistibly
to mind: Jack of all trades, master of none, Jack Spratt could eat
no fat, his wife could eat no lean, amongst them…”