Re: GNOME vs. KDE
In a message dated 5/21/99 8:57:15 AM Central Daylight Time,
Dinesh_Nadarajah@tri.sbc.com writes:
> 1. Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the
> Corel folks? Is there a reason why they chose KDE and not GNOME?
Debian doesn't "lean" toward either of them - in fact, it is staying neutral.
That's one of the great concepts behind Debian - let the user choose what he
needs/wants. As for Corel, they chose KDE for one main reason - KDE is more
mature than GNOME is, simply by the fact that it has been around longer.
> 2. Which is faster?
Too many factors to determine, but I'd guess they are both similar. It all
depends on desktops, window managers, installed extras, PCs used, servers &
video cards used... GNOME appeared to run slower on my machine than KDE, but
I'd attribute that to all the crap that Enlightenment loads by default - 90%
of which is not only grotesque, but useless - IMHO of course. :)
(Enlightenment is currenlty the only window-manager that fully supports
GNOME).
> 3. Which uses less memory and is more stable?
I don't know about memory requirements, but KDE appears to be more stable, at
least in my experience. I haven't used GNOME in a couple of months, so that
may be changing. I know one thing - I haven't had a lockup or crash with KDE
Yet - and I've been using it since pre-1.0 versions.
> 4. I heard GNOME uses CORBA. What advantage does this give from a
> system perspective where multiple applications are running?
That one I can't answer.
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