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Red Hat Desktop Edition

Posted by michael on from the cherry-picking dept.

Sivar writes "Red Hat plans to enter the desktop business OS market, The Register reports. Red Hat says that the move is in response to growing frustration with Microsoft which has peaked since the introduction of Microsoft's new licensing scheme. The article states that the desktop offering is due next year and, surprisingly "...the company is considering subscription-based pricing.""

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  1. Re:a long way to go by Querty · · Score: 4, Funny

    security ? XP with no services is secure enough behind a corporate firewall

    <sarcasm>Sure, I only run IE, Outlook, Word and MSN messenger, so I have nothing to be afraid of</sarcasm>

  2. Re:Competitive advantage? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Man, you don't have your facts straight... If you get ButtLint from CVS, it already handles more than two people (now it's three) and lasts over a week (eight full days, now!). Plus, the best feature of ButtLint is that it's skinnable!