New Desktop Face-Off: Gnome 2.20 vs KDE 3.5 | Linux Today

New Desktop Face-Off: Gnome 2.20 vs KDE 3.5

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 25, 2007

“With the new features that Gnome and KDE (K Desktop
Environment) are adding, each desktop environment is challenging
the other for a larger share of the market. If Linux-like operating
systems come with one desktop environment, the user has the option
to add to the other. Because of the ever-increasing sophistication
of the new features, some latest versions of the operating system
are including packages for both desktop environments, allowing
users to have the option of switching from one desktop environment
to another. In this article I will briefly talk about the new
features of both Gnome and KDE, and then look at some similarities
and important differences between the two desktop
environments…”


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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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