KDE/Linux everywhere?
Today I saw that a drugstore where I bought a CD was using a KDE based system for managing there CDs and DVDs. This lead to the question how many hidden KDE installations - and Linux installations in general - are out there.
There are several big installations of KDE around these days - an examples is the Linux system of the city Munich, called LiMux. Other examples are some 80k school computers in Brazil and the German “Oberfinanzdirektion Hannover” with 12k KDE systems (basyskom was behind this one).
These examples are well known. However, since KDE is Open Source no one can track all installations, and several large installations might not be known yet.
The Müller drugstore chain
Today I discovered such an installation: when I bought a CD in a drugstore I realized that one of the two computers on the desk at the information was running KDE. It was heavily customized - no kmenu and a very simple browser window, for example - but kicker was obvious, and the Plastik window style is unique also.
The question is now how many other installations are out there which no one realizes?
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