Ubuntu KDE

[Henry Keultjes]

Anyone interested in putting an UbuntuPPC version *without* Gnome and 
*with* KDE together for use here in the USA?

While there may be great merit to Gnome (I am not a techy so I don't 
know, all I have seen is Novell demo's) I know there is great merit to 
simplifying things for the enduser, an area where I have expertise.  If 
I am going to convince people to start using Ubuntu, throwing all kinds 
of possibilities at them just does not make sense.  These are people 
that will not even have heard of KDE or Gnome and they basically don't 
care.  They want something with less complexity than the WinTel they 
have to do three or four typical things; read and send email, surf the 
web, write a letter and play games.

In reality, people do not use an OS, they only use applications so for 
all practical purposes, a user could not ever know what engine is under 
the hood and 80% of the users probably will not care.

Are we going to address that enduser market like Linspire and Xandros 
are attempting to do but in the true Debian spirit with a free version 
of Ubuntu?

And . . . just in case, the reason for starting Gnome, the Qt license, 
has long been resolved.  The total integration of KDE and Qt has some 
inherent strengths for simplifying the end user experience and that's 
were I believe we need to go.

We are all Linux missionaries of sorts but as long as we, as 
missionaries,  produce only missionaries we are missing the objective of 
saving the souls of all those WinTel sinners.

Henry Keultjes