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| | Ars Technica: The K Desktop Environment - Page 1 (3/99) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | KDE is really not a window manager, nor a widget set; it's what it says it is: a desktop environment (some call it a desktop manager). |
 | | KDE provides a complete desktop environment, including a file manager, a window manager, a help system, a configuration system, uncountable tools and utilities, and an ever increasing number of applications, including but not limited to mail and news clients, drawing programs, a postscript and a dvi viewer and so forth. |
 | | KDE was built with, and requires, 'Qt' (KDE 1.1 requires Qt 1.42), a toolkit that some users find suspicious on account of its "commercialability." The fear had been that someday the developers of Qt would use their "ambiguous" license as a long arm into your pockets. |
| arstechnica.com /linux/reviews/1q99/kde-1.html (1208 words) |
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