Red Hat Takes Aim at SuSE, Mandrake

gowen writes "The gloves have come off in the competition between commercial linux distributions. The Register is reporting that Red Hat is offering a $10 rebate to people who upgrade to Red Hat 7.3, including those who previously used Mandrake and SuSE. Previous users of Windows are not eligible for a rebate."

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No Windows Rebate No Surprise

[hooded1]

Many people here on slashdot don't seem to understand that linux CANNOT compete with Windows on the desktop market. MS has been in this business for a long time. They have spent billions of dollars on research and public opinion polls. They know what the people want more than any linux distro does. The best linux can do is to copy them, steal their ideas. I imagine that the people at Redhat have realized this and thus aren't trying to go for the windows population, instead they go for people who they know already use linux.