Re: [PLUG] Which distro...

["Nicholas Vettese" <pluglist@hotmail.com>]

One of the reasons Mandrake was started was because RedHat wouldn't package 
KDE.  RedHat was a huge Gnome supporter and didn't think KDE was worth the 
time.



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> From: Craig Brennan <kregh99@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Which distro...
> Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 12:02:20 -0700 (PDT)
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> Mandrake is GNU Linux so that is understandable.
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> MITCHELL MALTENPORT <mmalten@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Which distro(s) favor KDE as the default desktop?
> >
> > Which distro(s) favor GNOME as the default desktop?
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> Installing Debian -- recently -- gave me a KDE default.
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> As I recall, installing Mandrake a few years ago gave me a GNOME
> default.
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> > Which distro/desktop is best for a regular office worker who needs
> > to read
> > email, create & print documents and spreadsheets, and surf the web
> > on her
> > lunch break?
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> The make-or-break would be which document types does she need
> compatibility with? Gnumeric seems to claim better import/export than
> KSpread, but I haven't used either. (To state tbe obvious, Gnumeric is
> GNOME, KSpread is KDE). Abiword is an excellent word processor, and I
> know it has a GNOME interface as well as a GTK one.
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