is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Sun Dec 21 20:53:23 UTC 2008


On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I was a die-hard KDE/Konqueror user. But became an instant convert to
> Firefox when I discovered NoScript. Now I have stopped using KDE because
> several years of experience with it on 4 different platforms (OpenBSD,
> Fedora, OpenSuse, and FreeBSD) have convinced me that KDE has security
> holes (or bugs) which permit exploits which cause me lots of trouble.

Do you have any details on this?

> It's
> possible that the bugs or security holes are in X itself - it's hard to
> tell.

In that case, maybe you shouldn't associate KDE with this on a public list.

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