And it has nothing to do with the taskbar ...

A debate sparked late last year by Linus Torvalds over the best Linux desktop environment is still continuing on blogs around the world. In mid December, Torvalds, the creator of Linux and the ...

Ticked off at the latest revamp of KDE, Linux progenitor Linus Torvalds has switched to Gnome. Apparently he thought KDE 4.0 was a "disaster" and "half-baked". Harsh words indeed. In an interview with ...

The right desktop environment can transform your Linux experience from acceptable to exceptional.

Having made an earlier defection from KDE to Gnome, Linus Torvalds has now rejected both in favor of Xfce. It’s only natural that the actions of the creator of the Linux kernel would attract extra ...

Many readers responded to a question I posed at the end of last week’s newsletter: KDE or GNOME – which is better? KDE and GNOME are two of the most popular GUI for running Linux and Unix desktops or ...

Trolltech developer Jens Bache-Wiig is working on a new style engine for Qt that can leverage the user's default GTK+ theme. This will make it possible for Qt applications to optionally share the ...

I am not intending to start a flame war here. I currently use Gnome 1.4. I have used whatever version of KDE came with Mandrake 7.1 from about a year ago. I persoanlly cant see the difference between ...

Despite many small updates to the desktops, Fedora Linux was released without its almost traditional delay. In addition to the usual main release with Gnome, now available in version 48, the Fedora ...

PALO ALTO, CA—Anyone watching the action in the Linux space knows that rival factions have developed two feature-rich and rapidly maturing desktop environments for the open source operating system.

Linux users: The Nerdica weblog walks through how to re-theme your KDE apps to blend nicely into the Gnome desktop. KDE has bunches of awesome applications, however, the KDE and Gnome default themes ...