Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Apr 2006 13:59 UTC
"Despite the head start that KDE enjoyed, the large number of KDE users and developers, and Linus Torvalds personally endorsing KDE, GNOME has won the desktop environment battle. The final victory came with the third piece of a corporate trifecta, giving GNOME the official nod from Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and finally Novell. The question is, will the triumph of GNOME lead to the rise or downfall of the Linux desktop?" Run Forrest! Run!
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2006-04-04
As long as you have a billion distros with no standard desktop libraries, then Microsoft continues to win.
Microsoft must laugh as KDE and Gnome developers fragment the desktop. But that's all historical and obviously any kind of grand unified merge of Gnome and KDE is long gone.
Oh well, maybe one day someone will come along and put a desktop operating system on top of the kernel.