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KDE and GNOME Users: Different Download Habits

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Bruce Byfield
Oct 9, 2008

“GNOMEfiles’ lists are dominated by administrative utilities.
Its monitoring applications include the Computer Temperature
Monitor and GNOME Sensor Applet, both of which offer users readings
that are unavailable from a standard GNOME install, and gnoMint,
which manages certification authorities.

“All these apps clearly give functionality that default GNOME
installations lack. The monitoring applications, perhaps, reflect
the fact that dual-core machines are becoming the norm, causing a
concern with overheating.”


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