Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Aug 2007 17:40 UTC, submitted by wakeupneo
"KDE 4.0 is very exciting, though not yet production ready, and that shows with this weeks' release of the first beta. It's a beta release for a major software project (using the traditional definition of beta, and not Google's it's-production-ready-but-we-don't-want-to-support-it-officially-yet definition of beta) and thus, it comes complete with bugs, crashes, missing artwork, and other goodies one would expect such as new code, new technologies and fun toys. For those of you who are unaware, KDE is one of the largest open source projects ever conceived. A major milestone release such as 4.0 is a long time in the making. Here follows a number of things to look forward to for those of you brave enough to try this early beta."
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2005-07-06
I doubt that Sun will change the default desktop: it's most likely the license (Qt is GPLv2, GTK is LGPL) which made Sun choose Gnome instead of KDE..
I hear people repeating this one over and over, but where has Sun actually said this? Anywhere. It looks like Sun were more comfortable with C as their language, as everything else they had done was written in it, and were enthusiastic about the use of CORBA in Gnome, which didn't really work out.