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On 7/19/2011 at 8:18 AM Konrad Heuer wrote:

|[snip]
|
|But: Neither BSD nor Linux will ever have chance to conquere the
desktop, 
|despite of KDE, Gnome or anything else. 
|[snip]

 =============

Perhaps the real question should be - how much longer will the desktop
be relevant?