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Cooking with Linux - The Evolution of the Desktop—How Far from the Pinnacle?

Issue 179

From Issue #179
March 2009

Mar 01, 2009  By Marcel Gagné
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Rumor has it that 2009 is the year of the Linux desktop. With KDE 4.2, the next step in the evolution of the popular desktop environment, it may well be.

Resources

KDE: www.kde.org

Marcel's Web Site: www.marcelgagne.com

Cooking with Linux: www.cookingwithlinux.com

WFTL Bytes!: wftlbytes.com

Marcel Gagné is an award-winning writer living in Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of the Moving to Linux series of books from Addison-Wesley. Marcel is also a pilot, a past Top-40 disc jockey, writes science fiction and fantasy, and folds a mean Origami T-Rex. He can be reached via e-mail at marcel@marcelgagne.com. You can discover lots of other things (including great Wine links) from his Web sites at www.marcelgagne.com and www.cookingwithlinux.com.

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i like this

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Submitted by Vijay Joshi (not verified) on Mon, 01/18/2010 - 03:16.

i never knew that kde would be like this
this is just awsome

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