KDE vs. GNOME: Email Readers
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published January 19, 2010
A feature-by-feature comparison between the KDE and GNOME email readers, concluding with an opinion about which is best.
Tags: Gnome, KDE, email, evolution, kmail

KDE vs. GNOME: Photo and Music Management
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published January 12, 2010
The differences between KDE and GNOME in photo and music apps reveals key trends in Linux desktop development.
Tags: open source, Gnome, KDE, Linux desktop

KDE 4.4 Beta: Incremental Doesn't Mean Directionless
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published December 10, 2009
KDE’s releases are more interesting right now than just about any other open source software project.
Tags: open source, KDE, Linux desktop, KDE 4, desktops

KDE Plasma Netbook GUI: Admitting Limitations
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published November 03, 2009
KDE's Plasma Netbook interface reflects its developers' struggles, but the main KDE desktop could learn from it.
Tags: search, widgets, desktop, KDE, Linux desktop

Who Needs Windows 7 When You've Got KDE?
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published October 19, 2009
Yes, you can point to a genuine Windows advantage here and there. But you can also find examples where KDE had features first, or has superior ones.
Tags: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Windows, KDE, Windows 7

KDE Social Desktop Contest: Freeing the Web
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published October 13, 2009
The winners of a recent contest point the way toward the future of the open source desktop.
Tags: OS X, open source, KDE, Linux desktop

How Will Users React to GNOME 3.0?
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published September 29, 2009
With KDE for comparison, GNOME now faces a serious challenge.
Tags: search, desktop, Gnome, KDE, Linux desktop

GNOME and KDE: In Search of the Perfect Menu
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published September 21, 2009
GNOME and KDE both offer beginners a classic menu, yet the two desktops take different paths from there.
Tags: open source, Gnome, KDE, Linux desktop

KDE's Expanded Desktop vs. Online Apps
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published August 25, 2009
Online applications are nothing more than the latest incarnation of proprietary software.
Tags: Google, privacy, Facebook, KDE, KDE 4

Will Geolocation Find a Home on Linux Desktops?
By Bruce Byfield | Features Article Published August 04, 2009
The capability to detect and record your location is already starting to arrive in GNOME and KDE. But these early implementations are just a hint of what geolocation will soon provide.
Tags: Google, Gnome, KDE, GNU/Linux desktop, geolocation

GNOME, KDE, and Xfce: Which Desktop is Right for You?
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published July 28, 2009
Regardless of which of the most popular Linux desktops you settle on -- GNOME, KDE, and Xfce -- the choice is too personal to trust to endorsements.
Tags: Linux, Gnome, KDE, xfce, Linux desktop

Richard Stallman, Leadership, and Sexism
By Bruce Byfield | Features Article Published July 20, 2009
What happened at a recent desktop conference points out unresolved issues in the free software community about leadership and sexism -- issues that many prefer to remain silent about rather than confront.
Tags: software, Gnome, KDE, Stallman, FOSS

Google Chrome OS and the Open Source Desktop
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published July 13, 2009
Given the sharing between the major free desktops like KDE and GNOME, any promising ideas in Chrome OS will also be borrowed by the major desktops.
Tags: Google, Microsoft, Linux, Gnome, KDE

Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much?
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published June 21, 2009
With KDE and GNOME innovating furiously, the open source desktop is still driven by developers working on what interests them – to the confusion of many users.
Tags: social networking, Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu, Linux desktop

The KDE 4.3 beta: KDE Returns to Incremental Releases
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published May 19, 2009
Offering less excitement than the past few releases, most of the KDE 4.3 beta's innovations are made to increase interface consistency, or to restore features from the old 3.x series.
Tags: Linux, KDE

KDE 4.3.0 Beta 1: Eye Candy and More
By Sean Michael Kerner | Open Source Article Published May 15, 2009
While the recent KDE releases have been known for their eye candy, the newest release certainly goes a step further.
Tags: Linux, developer, desktop, KDE

Why I Switched from GNOME to KDE
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published May 14, 2009
The two desktops are remarkably similar, but for now KDE is closer to where more of the action is.
Tags: Linux, desktop, Gnome, KDE

Aaron Seigo Talks About KDE's Past and Future
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published April 21, 2009
Open source must be competitive with proprietary software, the KDE leader says, otherwise “in the long run, that will leave us with nothing to show except for a strange group of people that work on something irrelevant.”
Tags: Linux, developer, software, desktop, KDE

Can GNOME Regain the Evolutionary Advantage over KDE?
By Bruce Byfield | Open Source Article Published April 16, 2009
Perhaps feeling the pressure as KDE 4 gains acceptance, GNOME seems to have been panicked into a hasty decision. But what if no one wants to share its new, apparently radical vision?
Tags: software, Gnome, KDE, Canonical

Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Planning to Overtake Apple
By Bruce Byfield | Features Article Published April 06, 2009
In a candid interview, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth says that Free software must be transformed from “something of the ugly duckling of the software world to the powerful swan that it really is." His goal: to have Ubuntu leading desktop innovation by October 2010.
Tags: Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu, Linux desktop