In a message dated 5/21/99 8:57:15 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 1. Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the > Corel folks? Is there a reason why they chose KDE and not GNOME? Debian doesn't "lean" toward either of them - in fact, it is staying neutral. That's one of the great concepts behind Debian - let the user choose what he needs/wants. As for Corel, they chose KDE for one main reason - KDE is more mature than GNOME is, simply by the fact that it has been around longer. > 2. Which is faster? Too many factors to determine, but I'd guess they are both similar. It all depends on desktops, window managers, installed extras, PCs used, servers & video cards used... GNOME appeared to run slower on my machine than KDE, but I'd attribute that to all the crap that Enlightenment loads by default - 90% of which is not only grotesque, but useless - IMHO of course. :) (Enlightenment is currenlty the only window-manager that fully supports GNOME). > 3. Which uses less memory and is more stable? I don't know about memory requirements, but KDE appears to be more stable, at least in my experience. I haven't used GNOME in a couple of months, so that may be changing. I know one thing - I haven't had a lockup or crash with KDE Yet - and I've been using it since pre-1.0 versions. > 4. I heard GNOME uses CORBA. What advantage does this give from a > system perspective where multiple applications are running? That one I can't answer.
