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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:0.19in">FOSS Force
conducted a Linux desktop poll recently (approx 500 respondents). The
most popular, by a surprising margin, was KDE with 70%. This was
probably due to people not being enamoured by Gnome 3.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:0.19in"><a href="http://fossforce.com/2014/02/kde-tops-desktop-poll/" style="line-height:0.19in">http://fossforce.com/2014/02/kde-tops-desktop-poll/</a><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:0.19in"><span style="line-height:0.19in">Interestingly the
movie “Gravity”, which recently won 6 BAFTA's, used KDE for
producing its special effects.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:0.19in"><a href="http://blogs.kde.org/2014/02/09/kde-plasma-movies" style="line-height:0.19in">http://blogs.kde.org/2014/02/09/kde-plasma-movies</a><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:0.19in"><span style="line-height:0.19in">Even Doctor Who
uses KDE and Fedora (spot the logo bottom left of screen).</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:0.19in"><a href="http://www.eikehein.com/kde/drwhoconfidential/snap.png" style="line-height:normal">http://www.eikehein.com/kde/drwhoconfidential/snap.png</a><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:0.19in"><span style="line-height:0.19in">So things are
looking up for KDE, considering the amount of criticism aimed at it
when KDE 4 was released in 2008.</span><br></p>
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</p><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Gordon</div><a href="http://www.zubenel.org.uk" target="_blank">www.zubenel.org.uk</a></div></div>