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GNOME: We Have Feature Parity With Windows
News Asked whether GNOME was just a clone of Windows, Waugh said GNOME 2.6 had achieved parity with the features of Microsoft's operating system. An upgraded GNOME desktop environment for Linux and Unix is due for release this Wednesday, with its...
[September 15, 2004, 10:40]
Gnome Linux To Attack Windows
News A high-profile group of companies is expected to back the Gnome Linux interface as a serious competitor to Windows on desktop systems. Gnome (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is in a battle with KDE (K Desktop Environment) for dominance among...
[August 15, 2000, 8:45]
Windows Admins Should Learn About Linux
News First, Linux is capable of being administered via either an X windows system such as Gnome or KDE or via the command-line interface, which is what I prefer for most administration tasks. I prefer KDE over Gnome because of KDE's tighter component...
[May 8, 2002, 16:08]
LinuxWorld: Linux Readies Its Desktop Assault
News Gnome -- in conjunction with KDE, another interface project, and Wine, an emulator that lets people run Windows applications on Linux -- could boost the operating system's use among consumers and, potentially, launch Linux onto the Windows...
[March 4, 1999, 9:27]
Gnome Throws Down The Gauntlet
News The Gnome Foundation, the formation of which was announced Tuesday, will administer not only the direction of the open source Gnome interface but also a variety of other elements that will comprise the evolving Gnome desktop environment.
[August 16, 2000, 9:01]
Gnome And KDE: Open Source Gets Bloody
News The Gnome Foundation is building a complete desktop environment, including an open source user interface, messaging backbone, component infrastructure and file system -- an environment the group hopes to offer as a credible alternative to...
[August 22, 2000, 9:10]
Roundup: LinuxWorld 2000, San Jose
News Gnome Linux to attack Windows Wed, 16th Aug 2000 Thirteen open source vendors that make up the Gnome Foundation are preparing to smash Microsoft's desktop monopoly Gnome throws down the gauntlet Hello GNOME, Adios KDE
[August 16, 2000, 16:11]
Novell Ports Evolution To Windows
News In an earlier blog, he laid out the Evolution on Windows development path drawn from his speech at a recent open source GNOME desktop conference in Germany. According to Lillqvist, since Evolution depends on various software libraries from GNOME...
[June 8, 2005, 11:20]
Linux Gets Office XP Applications
News And switching from Windows to another operating system involves some difficulty, although projects such as KDE and Gnome have made Linux increasingly user-friendly. The package plugs in to the standard Gnome or KDE desktops for Linux and Unix.
[April 23, 2003, 14:30]
Red Hat Linux 8.0: The Best Version Yet?
News By adding some elements of KDE, some elements of Windows XP, and some elements of GNOME, Red Hat has come up with a highly intuitive desktop. Not only was the GNOME panel altered to look more like the Windows taskbar, but the icons have a Windows...
[April 3, 2003, 9:47]
Welsh Spurn Windows To Create Own Linux
News He is soliciting translations of key files from the general public through a new Web site, kyfieithu.co.uk, and using the results to create Welsh-language versions of the open-source KDE and Gnome user interfaces.
[June 24, 2003, 16:04]
KDE Polishes Linux Look
News KDE and GNOME are the two main graphical user interface projects aiming to make Linux easy for mainstream computer users to operate. The GNOME Project is also preparing a release of GNOME 2.0, which is to add anti-aliased text, improved...
[April 4, 2002, 12:49]
SuSE Beats Red Hat In Ease Of Use
News GNOME's configuration tool offers fewer options than KDE's, but the options that it does provide -- such as fairly simple display, audio, and networking choices -- are very similar to those in Windows.
[December 12, 2002, 8:54]
Linux Users Warned Over GNOME Attack
News Several flaws in common Linux code used to process graphics in the GNOME desktop environment could allow an attacker to compromise a computer that displays a malicious image file, a security group warned this week.
[December 9, 2004, 8:35]
The Year Ahead: Will We See Linux On The Desktop?
News Of particular note are the KDE and Gnome desktop environments and Ximian, which runs on top of Gnome and streamlines things even further. The company will sell version 1.0 of its software in the first quarter of 2002; it's a distribution of Linux...
[December 30, 2001, 6:31]
Longhorn And The Linux Long-game
Talkback Currently Gnome, is a very usable desktop, and before Longhorn is out there will be two more releases of Gnome that will improve the usability of the Linux desktop even further. If Longhorn is significantly different from previous versions of...
[March 10, 2005, 1:13]
Red Hat Smoothes Out Linux
News For years, desktop Linux users have been faced with a choice between two graphical interfaces -- Gnome and KDE. Red Hat's Bluecurve airbrushes out some differences between KDE and Gnome, altering icons and menu selections KDE or Gnome users would...
[September 30, 2002, 11:50]
Mandrake Shines Up New Software
News A new feature called "Bluewave" gives a distinctive look and feel to both KDE and Gnome, although this has proven controversial for some KDE and Gnome developers. Besides the dominant KDE 3.0.3 and Gnome 2.0.1, Mandrake 9 includes WindowMaker 0.8...
[September 26, 2002, 14:42]
LinuxWorld: A Chance To Shine
News Red Hat will distribute copies of its Linux OS that will come with the Gnome desktop program. Right now, Linux is mainly making inroads in the server market, though projects such as Gnome, an attempt to develop a user-friendly interface, are...
[March 1, 1999, 9:08]
Red Hat, Sun To Boost Desktop Linux
News Ximian is working with Sun to improve version 2.0 of Gnome, but also has software called Connector that lets Linux desktop computers work with Microsoft Exchange email servers -- a useful feature for infiltrating Linux systems into corporate...
[August 14, 2002, 8:21]
