Open source columnist Nick Petreley has an interesting piece over at ComputerWorld noting that desktop Linux is on the way. “I kicked the Windows habit back in 1997 and have since been using Linux exclusively as my productivity desktop operating system. Yes, I know I'm in the minority. But while you understandably nodded off some years ago while waiting for Linux to conquer the desktop, you probably don't want to snooze much longer, or you could wake up to a whole different world.”
“Then K Desktop Environment (KDE) 3.0 shipped on April 3 (www.kde.org). KDE brought the Linux desktop out of the Dark Ages last year when it exploited the font anti-aliasing features of Qt, Trolltech Inc.'s user interface tool kit (www.trolltech.com). Most of the changes in KDE 3.0 are under the hood, but you'd definitely notice the translucent menus, usability enhancements to the Konqueror Web and file browser, bug fixes galore, and much more.