RE: [seul-edu] KDE or GNOME?

[Chris Hedemark <hedemark@bops.com>]

KDE & Gnome are *both* Open Source.

For smaller deployments you can get away with offering both.  In a school
environment I would suggest standardizing on one to streamline sysadmin
work.  I don't know much about Gnome from that perspective but have deployed
KDE in an engineering shop with ~100 users.  KDE is pretty simple from a
sysadmin standpoint.  Equally important, you can put users in front of it
with little to no training.  I put people in front of KDE who have a hard
time with Windows (and no UNIX experience to speak of) and they take to it
like a duck to water.

Largely it is a matter of personal preference.


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Brown [mailto:brownie2001@mailandnews.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 2:12 PM
To: seul-edu
Subject: [seul-edu] KDE or GNOME?


After reading the message on KDE-EDU, it has sparked a question for me 
to ask: KDE or GNOME? I like GNOME because of its Open Source nature but 
the students don't really care about OSS. So would GNOME or KDE be a 
better choice?

Kevin Brown.