KDE and GNOME
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Ahh, the great wars of KDE v. GNOME.
SuSE used to only use KDE. Zealots out there started to bitch and moan because KDE isn't completely open source. So SuSE started shipping with GNOME as well.
If you believe in certain types of "purity" you would use GNOME. If you don't give a [moderated], use whatever works.
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So GNOME has more you can do with it?
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KDE was pure open source by the time Gnome had any footing. That was like 13 years ago. KDE has been just as open as Gnome for a very long time.
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It was never KDE that wasn't open, it was the QT libraries that were the problem early on. Very early on.
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Hence the purity aspect of it. People were bitching like someone [moderated] their grandmothers because you couldn't release source code.
Zealotry is a big thing in certain OSS circles. The [moderated] waving of being the most open was huge back in those days. That's the main reason why I didn't get into Linux then, those people just pissed me off to no end. I went the MS route instead, where there were different battles to fight.
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Yeah, plenty of fun to be had in the Microsoft area...
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Before then I worked heavily in mainframe, OS/2 and Mac. Mac because I did lots of video stuff and Amiga was on the way out, mainframe because my friend's father hooked me into working on it, and OS/2 because IBM shops tend to stick with IBM to the end.
The 90's were a strange time to be in IT.
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I still have my Amiga.
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@PSX_Defector said:
The 90's were a strange time to be in IT.
I agree - and then the dot-com bubble burst.
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I ride that wave for a little bit. Oh OilNavigator, you were doomed from the beginning.
