Posts Tagged ‘kubuntu’
K-Klass
Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:53 7 Comments
This week I gave Parallels 4 a treat with an evaluative few days of the Kubuntu 9.04 Alpha 5 release (Jaunty Jackalope) running the wonderful KDE4.2 desktop environment.
(Briefly) for those of you new to Linux there are three main desktop environments, KDE, GNOME and XFCE, all have some degree of application crossover but also run their own bespoke flavours in certain areas, KDE for example runs Kontact for mail/calendar/notes etc whilst GNOME offers up the superb Evolution comms suite, then there’s the Konqueror browser as oppose to Epiphany (you get the picture), a more in depth explanation of all things Linux is available HERE as a brief four page/ten minute read explaining what Linux is, how to get it, and most importantly – why you’d be better off using it on your desktop.
