Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

That article ENTIRELY got it wrong. All RedHat said was they won't be
pushing Linux on the consumer desktop for some time. They make their
money from servers, and they are a company, so it's not in their best
interest to have a product they aren't profiting from.

They will continue to have Red Hat Enterprise Desktop as a product for
corporations, but no one is really making many right now trying to put
Linux on consumer desktops.

In the mean time, Red Hat and Novell are both financing most of the work
done on Gnome, Red Hat continues to finance the hosting for gnome.org
etc etc... so they are continuing to better the consumer desktop until a
time comes when they consider it a profitable undertaking.

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 13:43 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
I came across this article and as a Fedora user at home and work, I
think this is important to know.

A few weeks ago, there was a discussion about Ubuntu on this list and I
feel that this is part of that discussion.

----Article link----

The Biggest Blunder: Or why Red Hat and Novell just left the door wide
open to Ubuntu
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/102011/index.html

In recent announcements both Red Hat and Novell made it pretty clear
that their foray onto the desktop would be delayed quite a bit longer.
What they do not know is that they just left the door wide open for
Ubuntu to conquer the desktop and the server space.
----/Article link-----


Basically, both Novell and RedHat are backing away from pushing Linux to
the desktop. But Ubuntu is not backing away.

As a Fedora user, I see this as an issue. At home I need games and the
applications that my family use. To date I have not had issues with
Fedora up to 7. When I updated my machines at home, there were
applications that I couldn't get for F8 so I installed F7. I have not
checked to see if these are available for F8 at present. But they were
available for the latest release of Ubuntu.

I am interested in others views on this.

--
Robin Laing


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