[tlug] Gnome vs. KDE? BSD vs. Linux?

["Niels Kobschaetzki" <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

Hi!

It seems that I get soon my hands on a laptop which won't be able to
run my favorite mixture of BSD and Mach.
And therefore I wanted to ask some absolute elemental questions:
Can someone sum up the most important differences between Gnome and KDE?
And what about the (did)advantages of the BSD-derivates compared to
Linux on an old PIII-laptop?

Niels