On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Arandir wrote:
> But one thing that stuck out was KDE. It was everywhere. Virtually
> every demo running was on KDE. The only instance of Gnome I found was a
> pottery lawn-gnome asking for FSF donations. Of course, with the
> crowds, I didn't get to see every box up close.
>
> Does this reflect real-world linux? Or does it only reflect on what the
> vendors use?
Well, remember, we're trying to show that Linux is "pretty" and KDE is
pretty. It's further along than GNOME although GNOME had its 1.0 release
during the Expo (yay). I saw a LOT more GNOME than you did apparently
though KDE was, as you say, more common. I also saw a fair amount of
FVWMx.
_Deirdre * http://disclaimer.deirdre.org * http://www.deirdre.net
"This is Linux's coming-out party" -- Mark Jarvis of Oracle, in his keynote
"This is Linux's coming-out party" -- Linus Torvalds, in his keynote
"What, was it gay?" -- Rick Moen, during Linus' keynote
