Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Sep 2005 12:25 UTC, submitted by Wade Olson
"Earlier in the week, I conducted a lengthy phone interview with Aaron Seigo about the Open Source Desktop Workshop being held in San Diego on October 13th and 14th. Fast approaching, we discuss the workshop's inception, target audience and expectations."
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Member since:2005-07-06
This is purely from personal observations about hobbyist users. I imagine cooperate desktop deployments would be skewed toward GNOME (Red Hat & Sun).
I'm only aware of hobbyist users and people in businesses going out and using the desktop software available to them to their advantage (and good for them), and it is always KDE here in the UK. The only time I see Gnome is when someone uses Red Hat on a server because that's what it comes with. Absolute honesty there.
I'm not aware of any real corporate deployments of any desktop (despite some peoples' protestations to the contrary for about five years) other than KDE in Munich, unless you count existing Unix workstations being replaced.
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2005-07-07
"Do people find that GNOME is more widely used in the USA whereas KDE is more popular in the UK and Europe? I would be interested to know, as I live in Australia, which seems to lean more heavily towards KDE."
"I'm from the UK and from what I've seen agree with you."
I'm from Kanada and it's mostly KDE here-- I think GNOME has more developers from the US, and a louder voice in English language sites, but I suspect KDE has a bigger % of the English speaking user base.
This is purely from personal observations about hobbyist users. I imagine cooperate desktop deployments would be skewed toward GNOME (Red Hat & Sun).