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OSNews: Making the Switch from ‘The Blue’ to ‘The Green’

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 6, 2004

“KDE’s high level of configurability and customizability is at
once its redeeming feature, yet at the same time its downfall for
many users. Until today I was a die-hard RedHat/Fedora Gnome user.
Don’t get me wrong, I am still a huge Gnome fan and I see an
amazing future for it, especially with the current talk about the
possibilities of integrating Mono, C#, Mozilla/XUL and whatever
other cool open source projects around. It’s just that I have been
so impressed with what I have discovered today in the SUSE/KDE
combination, its too hard to beat.

“I am writing this after having made the pleasant discovery of
the SUSE LIVE CD 9.1 which was recently released. This is my first
ever look at SUSE and my reason for giving it a run stems from one
underlying reason–the Ximian crew are now onboard…”

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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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