Guess we're major now ...

Vincent mailinglists at vinnl.nl
Thu Aug 28 11:37:38 CEST 2008


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Biju Chacko <biju.chacko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just read the announcement for Debian LiveCD Beta Release:
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/295698/
>
> One paragraph jumped out at me:
>
> "Although live-helper is a toolkit to produce your very own live systems
> with only a few steps, we also provide prebuilt images that are meant to
> be used as reference systems for end-users. Currently, this consists of
> the three major desktop environments (GNOME, KDE and Xfce), as well as a
> small 'standard' image without a graphical environment."
>
> A few years ago we would never have been clubbed in the same sentence
> with GNOME and KDE. Really does give me a kick ..
>
> -- b


I've seen Xfce listed next to GNOME and KDE about ever since 4.4 was
released ;-)

Take for example the 2007 Desktop Linux survey results:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8454912761.html
 = Desktop Linux Windowing Environments =
GNOME - KDE - Xfce - Other

And it's well-deserved too :)

-- 
Vincent
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