A good read.
Unfortunately, with the number of Kubuntu ppa repositories available and the migration of some KDE SC versions to Ubuntu’s Backports, there can be some confusion on what each is for. So below I will briefly describe what each of them contains and what they are for.
Interesting read if you’re new to Kubuntu.
For the tinkerers and testers, 2010 is shaping up to be a perfect year. Almost every desktop and application we can think of is going to have a major release, and while release dates and roadmaps always have to be taken with a pinch of salt, many of these projects have built technology and enhancements you can play with now. We’ve selected the few we think are worth keeping an eye on and that can be installed easily, but Linux is littered with applications that are evolving all the time, so we’ve also tried to guess what the next big things might be. Take a trip with us on a voyage of discovery to find out exactly what’s happening and how the Linux desktop experience is likely to evolve over the next 12 months…
Xfce, LXDE, and other desktop environments are often referenced as being lighter-eight Linux desktop environments than KDE and GNOME, but what are the measurable performance differences between them? Curious how much of a quantitative impact the GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and LXDE desktops have on netbook systems, we carried out a small set of tests to look at the differences in memory usage, battery power consumption, and thermal performance.
I won’t spoil the surprise, because there is none - KDE proved itself to be the most resource hungry desktop environment.
