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December 1, 2005 10:01 am Dave Neary gnome

First off – congrats to the KDE project for a new major release. With the performance improvements going into GTK+ and friends, and the performance gains in QT 4, the next generation of KDE and GNOME should both be smaller and zippier, which is brilliant.

I came across http://www.alexa.com via http://radar.oreilly.com today, and checked out the web reach of www.kde.org versus www.gnome.org – the results are pretty interesting.


The first thing to notice is that we’re both trending upward, albeit erratically.

The most interesting point, I think, is that over the last few days, when KDE made a major release, *both* projects got more attention.

One Response

  1. Anonymous Says:
    December 5th, 2005 at 12:06 am

    You should know that is only counting IE users with the alexa tollbar installed.

    Windows users tend to like KDE over GNOME as it is more like from where they are coming from.

    And KDE have more sites hosted under the same domain while GNOME has it’s site spilted out to other domains.

    So the number are unfair for GNOME more than they are for KDE, but they still are totally unfair.