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Not going to happen ...
it has been tried before and it didn't work. The problem is that there are major customers that are committed to KDE as well as major customers that are committed to Gnome. Dropping either one would result in an exodus of customers who would quickly flock to a competing distro. The fact that there are multiple desktops on Linux is very much a market driven phenomenon, one that cannot occur with Windows since MS plays the role of benevolent dictator. In the Linux realm there is no benevolent dictator and that radically effects its development patterns. Monopolies and groups of competitors function very differently in a free market and that fact is very difficult for MS centric users to grasp.
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Kernel Version 2.6.16?  bill@... | 03/21/06
A little behind... but give it a few days  Tony Agudo | 03/21/06
Backport?  codeguy007 | 03/22/06
Sorry about that,...  Tony Agudo | 03/22/06
Good, I'll download it later this weekend  Boot_Agnostic | 03/22/06
So far, so good  bill@... | 03/23/06
It'll be desktop Fedora on a new dual boot  Boot_Agnostic | 03/23/06
Question/Poll  Real World | 03/22/06
Doesn't it depend on what you will be using it for?  balsover | 03/22/06
As I said  Real World | 03/22/06
he wants a fileserver...  linuxoverwindows | 03/22/06
Inclined to agree  Yagotta B. Kidding | 03/22/06
Been there...  Real World | 03/22/06
RE: Question/Poll  bobjones68@... | 03/23/06
Pretty much any...  bill@... | 03/23/06
Stodgy Red Hat  Yagotta B. Kidding | 03/22/06
Well, Fedora IS supposed to be cutting edge. (nt)  jgmsys@... | 03/22/06
Well, it is Fedora...  bill@... | 03/23/06
At least standardize on a GUI  jasonp@... | 03/22/06
I have to agree with this.  jgmsys@... | 03/22/06
But that is a strength of Linux  keith.bellows@... | 03/22/06
Not an advantage for all...  jasonp@... | 03/22/06
RE: Not an advantage for all...  richdave | 03/22/06
RE: But that is a strength of Linux  richdave | 03/22/06
I agree  stanaland | 03/22/06
I see where you went wrong  Yagotta B. Kidding | 03/22/06
GTK  jasonp@... | 03/22/06
Not going to happen ...  George Mitchell | 03/22/06
FUD and LIES  Update victim | 03/22/06
RE: FUD and LIES  richdave | 03/22/06
Both of you are right...  Tony Agudo | 03/22/06
As great as that sounds...  Linux Guy 1000 | 03/22/06
Ow, what a bummer  Tony Agudo | 03/22/06
now THAT would be something!  Grimm Reaper | 03/22/06
Erm, I may be wrong...  zkiwi | 03/22/06
Check the timeline if you don't believe it  Grimm Reaper | 03/23/06
*burp*  zkiwi | 03/22/06

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