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12-03-2008, 07:15 AM
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Q1. difference between kde and gnome?
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12-03-2008, 07:22 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Bologna
Distribution: CentOS 6.5 OpenSuSE 12.3
Posts: 10,509
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12-03-2008, 07:46 AM
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: The Netherlands; Dordrecht
Distribution: Arch (at the moment)
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Why not simply try them both, hey, it's free  |
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12-03-2008, 08:41 AM
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Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Russia
Distribution: Slackware 12.2
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Originally Posted by amitgarg
Q1. difference between kde and gnome?
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google it. |
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12-03-2008, 09:12 AM
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Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Pensacola, FL
Distribution: Slackware64® Current & Arch
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12-03-2008, 04:04 PM
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Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Directly above centre of the earth, UK
Distribution: SuSE, plus some hopping
Posts: 4,070
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Quote:
Originally Posted by amitgarg
Q1. difference between kde and gnome?
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A1 They are not the same. Mostly, that accounts for the differences, between kde and gnome, but there may be others.
And, of course, vice versa. |
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12-03-2008, 04:10 PM
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Registered: Sep 2003
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A1: kde starts with k; gnome starts with g.
A2: gnome has more letters than kde
A3: gnome is a word, kde is not.
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12-03-2008, 05:15 PM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: England
Distribution: openSUSE, Fedora, CentOS
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12-03-2008, 07:23 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: SE Tennessee, USA
Distribution: Gentoo, LFS
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Well, to be fair, these things are not intuitive to the typical person whose sole experience with "computers" is with "Microsot Windoze."
These systems do not give you "a choice." They run the one way that they run, and if you don't like it, all you can do about it is to write columns and publish them in magazines.
The notion of being able to remotely connect to another system, even one that doesn't have a video-card installed, and conduct a full-fledged GUI session with it, while paying not one thin dime to do so, is utterly and completely alien.
The notion of being able to choose your desktop, or to choose not to have one at all, is incomprehensible to a person whose only computational experience is Windoze.
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12-03-2008, 10:47 PM
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Registered: May 2007
Location: California
Distribution: Slackware/Ubuntu
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Just to make things more confusing:
Q1 xfce is a little mouse running inside your computer.
Q2 KDE - Kids Diligently Eating
Q3 Gnome - An ancient creature who lives under a bridge and eats children.
Q4 Fluxbox - flex box makes your computer flexable.
Q5 Blackbox- "What! I can't see a thing!"
No seriously...
First of all, PLEASE properly title the threads you start.
But even more importantly, PLEASE use the search engines. Google is your friend. Also, please use the Linux Question search before posting. People here are truly willing to answer your questions if you show some effort in trying to solve it yourself.  |
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12-03-2008, 11:44 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Nashville
Distribution: Manjaro, RHEL, CentOS
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Originally Posted by okos
Just to make things more confusing:
Q1 xfce is a little mouse running inside your computer.
Q2 KDE - Kids Diligently Eating
Q3 Gnome - An ancient creature who lives under a bridge and eats children.
Q4 Fluxbox - flex box makes your computer flexable.
Q5 Blackbox- "What! I can't see a thing!"
No seriously...
First of all, PLEASE properly title the threads you start.
But even more importantly, PLEASE use the search engines. Google is your friend. Also, please use the Linux Question search before posting. People here are truly willing to answer your questions if you show some effort in trying to solve it yourself. |
We are but simple cavemen. You world of Google confuses and frightens us. |
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12-04-2008, 03:22 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
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I think this thread has gone its course, so its closed.
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