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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. It's about service not product by gelfling · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hey guys and girls; take your 'leet hats off for a second and think.

    It's about product DISTRIBUTION, SERVICE AND SUPPORT. It's about UPGRADES, PACKAGING AND BUGFIX. It's about NOTIFICATION, PROCESS AND BIDDING.

    Can You Dig It, Can You Dig It? Caaaannn Yooooouuu Diiiig Iiiiiiiit.

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

    Project is not an IDE, it is for keeping track of "projects". Get it? You know the silly timelines and initiatives that mid-managers pump out weekly? They do it in MS Project.

    I just tried Kivio, didn't like it at all. I can say the same for Visio though.

    Dreamwever does suck eggs. If people need hand holding to generate a web page Bluefish and Quanta both work quite well.

    Fireworks is not the same as The Gimp by any means. Fireworks lets you draw scalable vector art images, not pixel based bitmaps like Gimp does. I wish there was something comparable for Linux, but there isn't. Sodipodi might come close some day though, but right now it is broken all to hell.