is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Sat Dec 27 03:11:15 UTC 2008


Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>
> wrote:
>> MKas wrote:
>>
>>> I like KDE, but what I see:
>>>
>>> bash-3.2# yum remove *gnome*
>>
>> Surely you don't have to remove *gnome* in order to use KDE?
> 
> True. But it makes the arguement that KDE in Fedora is vibrant more
> difficult when you can't have KDE without Gnome.

Actually, I installed Fedora-10 from the KDE Live CD,
and then yum groupinstall-ed "KDE (K Desktop Environment)",
and I only had half a dozen gnome applications on my laptop,
which I can live with, personally.

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