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>Personally I think it's a damn fine idea... but I feel that some more
>choice is in order. How about it RedHat? 

There is already a choice in 5.0.  You can pick between a Win 95 look
and feel, an AfterStep look and feel, and a Motif look and feel.  All
out of the box, all working with the same configuration.

In 5.1 you'll be able to install gnome and use that as well.

>What about bundling KDE with
>RH5.1 and giving them the option of using that instead? Again, it's not
>perfect, but it's a good starting point for those who are unfamiliar
>with UNIX... and if they're comfortable they will stay. Besides, KDE
>"feels" similar to Win98 IMHO.

KDE will not be shipped with Red Hat.  It requires development stuff
that is not free software.  They don't ship anything built with Motif
on the main distro, either.  All the "free software" that they ship
must be rebuildable in that distribution.  Hence no nedit, ddd, etc.
Those do exist on the PowerTools, but only with LessTif.  KDE is 
built with a commercial widget set, Qt.  Qt is not free software
and should be avoided UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.  If you
want a commercial widget set, fine.  Just know that as soon as you
make one dime on anything built with it you must PAY for the widget
set.  This isn't entirely bad, but you MUST know it going in.  

--
 Jim Stokes
 jim.stokes@wilmington.net