27 Nov
2005
27 Nov
'05
3:52 p.m.
Anthony Anson wrote:
The message 43899CE1.7070905@ukfsn.org from Ian bell ianbell@ukfsn.org contains these words:
Chris Green wrote:
I never really understood the need for (or usefulness) of KDE or Gnome, that's why I long ago started using xfce and now, because xcfe seems to be going rather the way of KDE and Gnome I've moved to fvwm2.
Which the real power of Linux - choice.
Which would be a lot better if a common root standard could be agreed so that *ALL* apps could be written to work on any distro without any tinkering.
Which will never happen. There will be standrads and some distros and apps will adhere to them. But Linux is too diverse for that ever to be universal.
Ian