On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:48:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > RH probably chose Gnome as it is easier to ship a fully working > out-the-box system with gnome. KDE has too many knobs Once they'd picked GNOME, for whatever reason, it made sense to stick with it or their support costs would rise with no increase in income. When you're making a commercially supported distro, the "pick one of each" approach, as used by Ubuntu, makes a lot of sense. -- Neil Bothwick Conclusion: the place where you got tired of thinking.