Difference between Gnome and kde?

[butchrecon]

What is the difference the Gnome and the kde desktop environments? James Collins
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[marsd]

Preferences.
No flamewars here. This is another of the heated controversies in the linux community.
They are both good in their own way, nuff said.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

When KDE started some people had 'issues' with it because it used the QT/X11 toolkit from trolltech (

http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/x11.html).

Because QT was (and remains) not GPL, some people regard Gnome as more 'pure' to to Linux/GPL ethic. Gnome really started as an effort to overcome this 'problem' -->

http://www.gnome.org/faqs/users-faq/index.html#AEN135

.

Politics aside, in terms of functionality I'd say that KDE maybe has a slight edge. Gnome, on the other hand, is now more widely used and will be the replacement for CDE on Sun Solaris -->

http://www.sun.com/gnome.

But as marsd says, its all a matter of personal preference which is one of the many wonders of linux - you are spoilt for choice.

Regards

 

[LeoSteph]

HI ,

For information , CDE on HP UX will be replaced too by
GNOME .
It will be present on Linux ,Sun & HP-UX as desktop

Regards Leo-Steph ;-) !