Most Recent version and etc

[Leonard Smith <leonards iol21 com>]

Greetings!

I am a new user of Gnome and I want to know how to determine whether I
have the most up-to-date version. How can I go about this?

Also, I have been using KDE, and I want to determine which is the better
environment. I realize that this may not be a politically correct
question, but I do want to know the benefits of Gnome's approach as
opposed to KDE's. From what I have been reading Gnome seems to have a
larger corporate backing.

Thanks for the help and the info.

Leonard Smith