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| | Ars Technica: The K Desktop Environment - Page 1 (3/99) |
 | | 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. |
 | | Personally, I believe that KDE 1.1 is a modestly extensible, quick, and stable environment, and I think you'll see from this review that KDE is putting a face on Linux that's bridging the gap between so-called established, "easy to use" OSes--like Windows and the MacOS--and Linux, the mythically evil, CLI-based realm of pain and suffering. |
 | | 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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