Chapter 3 Working with the Desktop Environments
Although many administrators are perfectly content to work at the command line, Linux does offer a number of excellent graphical interfaces to choose from based on the X Windows System. Novell Desktop Linux includes two of these: KDE and GNOME. During installation, you can choose which of the two you want to install, and you can always add the other at any point after the installation (see Chapter 5, “Working with YaST”), if you choose to do so.
Each desktop has its own set of equivalent applications, and you can even run applications for one desktop under the other if the right libraries are present. As mentioned in Chapter 2, “Installing Novell Linux Desktop 9,” KDE is the desktop environment ...
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