[geeks] Sun a possible takeover target - rumours

Frank Van Damme frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be
Sat May 10 17:31:42 CDT 2003


On Saturday 10 May 2003 21:50, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 2003, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > KDE and Gnome could be fine if someone brought some sanity to those
> > projects.
>
> KDE and GNOME would be fine if someone forced their developers to
> develop their software on first-generaion Pentiums and SPARC 20s.  They
> need to trim the bloat.  WindowMaker and GNUstep are living proof that
> you can make something a desktop that's -fast- and -usable- that
> doesn't require more system resources than Oracle.

Let someone - not me :-p - forward this to the kde devel lists... 

That said I don't think you can compare GNUstep with either Gnome or Kde in 
terms of functionality for the programmer. 

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