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https://www.trinitydesktop.org/newsentry.php?entry=2014.12.16
The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new TDE R14.0.0 release. The Trinity Desktop Environment is a complete software desktop environment designed for Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users preferring a traditional desktop model, and is free/libre software.
Unlike previous releases TDE R14.0.0 has been in development for over two years. This extended development period has allowed us to create a better, more stable and more feature-rich product than previous TDE releases. R14 is brimming with new features, such as a new hardware manager based on udev (HAL is no longer required), full network-manager 0.9 support, a brand new compositor (compton), built-in threading support, and much more!
(Score: 3, Funny) by rts008 on Wednesday December 17 2014, @02:31PM
Gahhh! Begone, blasphemer!
I have no warm memories of any version of GNOME!
You can MATE your GNOME all you want, but please, no pic's!
*Disclaimer: This comment is not meant to be taken seriously. (except the part about not liking the GNOME DE)
(Score: 1) by rockdoctor on Wednesday December 17 2014, @03:15PM
For some reason, I could never feel comfortable with KDE. On the other hand, I do like Mate. Choice is good!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by rts008 on Wednesday December 17 2014, @03:54PM
Yes, choice is good.
I like the fact that there are many options for Linux.
Hundreds, if not thousands of distro's, then many different DE's to pick from for each of those, and many thousands of software packages to download from the repository.
Life is good. :-) [limited to the context of this discussion]
I got hooked on KDE during my time with Mandrake 5 thru 8(bailed when it became Mandriva), and have stayed with it. When the KDE 4.0 fiasco happened, I just stuck with 3.5, then warily tried 4.2...all good since.
I think what spooked me away from GNOME was a 'first impression' experience with Ubuntu 5.04. I also missed the cofigurability of KDE, so with 5.10, I went with Kubuntu.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Marand on Thursday December 18 2014, @03:43AM
Yes, choice is good.
I like the fact that there are many options for Linux.
That's what people don't understand when they complain about "fragmentation" and "too many alternatives". It's a good thing to have options, because not everybody wants the same thing. If everybody liked KDE or GNOME there'd be no reason to even have separate projects, but that's not the case. Different DEs and WMs have different goals and appeal to different people.
Even in environments like Windows, people end up hacking in options like shell replacements and window theming. The difference is with the X11 GUIs it's explicitly supported so you can do a lot more and have it work better.
I got hooked on KDE during my time with Mandrake 5 thru 8(bailed when it became Mandriva), and have stayed with it. When the KDE 4.0 fiasco happened, I just stuck with 3.5, then warily tried 4.2...all good since.
I think what spooked me away from GNOME was a 'first impression' experience with Ubuntu 5.04. I also missed the cofigurability of KDE, so with 5.10, I went with Kubuntu.
I tried GNOME 1 (or maybe it wasn't even at 1.x yet) and liked it, but it was too resource heavy for the AMD K5 I had, so I ended up using AfterStep instead. Switched from AS to WindowMaker at some point and used it for a very long time.
Then one day I decided to check GNOME out again and absolutely hated GNOME 2. They'd already begun their crusade of removing customisation and hiding anything resembling flexibility inside registry crap even back then, and it was a massive shock coming from window managers with more freedom.
As for KDE, I tried KDE 1, didn't like it. Tried KDE 2, didn't like it. Then sometime around early KDE 3.5 I tried that and was happy. The flexibility was just what I wanted, and it felt like there was finally a worthwhile upgrade from WindowMaker. I didn't get KDE4 until 4.2 or 4.3 because of Debian, so I missed the pain and ended up liking it because it's even more flexible than KDE 3 was.