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- DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 472 (Kororaa Linux 17 - now with bubbles)
- Debian Project News - September 3rd
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 281
- Firefox OS Marketplace leaks
- Torvalds on the Linux desktop's popularity problems
- war in the Linux world
- Installing Software on Ubuntu Linux
- Linux From Scratch 7.2 relies on latest GCC
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There is no Linux desktop
There are KDE, GNOME and many other species of desktop environments. In each species there are many subspecies, for example, PCLinuxOS KDE, Fedora KDE and so on.
The differences don't stop there. Developers do not necessarily comply with the file system hierarchy, they use different files for configuration.
Any distro which aims to be the one most used can only ever be at most a large fish in a small pond.