Linked by Sean Oliviero on Wed 28th Jul 2004 05:54 UTC
Linux The promise of Desktop Linux (DL) has been long coming. It's made significant progress since the mid-90s when GNOME and KDE came out, giving Linux users a somewhat modern desktop to work upon. However, it's been 7 years and DL hasn't progressed much at all since then. Today, DL is still nothing more than a UNIX-clone with a task bar, a start menu, and a desktop with some icons on it. But why has DL evolved at such a glacial pace?
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by Will T on Wed 28th Jul 2004 07:34 UTC

Linux will be ready for the desktop when their usable GUIs (ie KDE, Gnome) don't each up all a systems resources.

128-192mb of ram is insane. I'd rather use Windows XP, atleast I'd get compadibility.

I loves the old KDE, that would run fine on 64mb of ram. Now what are my choices? Using some POS like Fluxbox? No thanks.