The Desktop Landscape
Whereas the opportunity in open source software to change programs for your custom needs is a great advantage in many cases, it can also lead to confusion when one version of a program is not consistent with other versions. This consistency problem doesn't pop up very often, but the best and most notorious example of it is in how distributions alter the default appearance of the two main desktop environments, KDE and GNOME. Instead of the default KDE or GNOME menus, you will see Mandrake and Fedora menus. Distros also often favor one desktop environment over another.
Mandrake defaults to using KDE. When you log in to Mandrake for the first time, without changing options for your session, you will end up in KDE by way of ...
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