This week at LWN: KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 10, 2009 10:10 AM EDT
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Buried deep inside a recent interview with Linus Torvalds was the revelation that he had moved away from KDE and back to GNOME—which he famously abandoned in 2005. The cause of that switch was the problems he had with KDE 4.0, which seems to be a popular reaction to that release. Various media outlets, Slashdot in particular, elevated Torvalds's switch to the headline of the interview. That led, of course, to some loud complaints from the KDE community, but also a much more thoughtful response from KDE project lead Aaron Seigo. While it is somewhat interesting to know Torvalds's choice for his desktop, there are other, more important issues that stem from the controversy.

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"It's the other guys" dinotrac 24 1,023 Feb 11, 2009 1:19 PM

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