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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. Whats missing from linux is quality by HanzoSan · · Score: 3, Interesting


    Linux has functionality, all it needs is the quality of say OSX.

    Functionality is fine but to beat Windows you have to look professional, nautilus is the most professional looking interface to work with so far, Redhat should fund development of nautilus, bring back Wozniak or whatever his name is who built Nautilus, and finish what they started.

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  2. Depends on your distro then by Vanders · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm sat in front of a box that formally had an SBLive!, and still has a Logitech QuickCam Express plugged into it.

    Mandrake 8.0 detected both, installed the correct modules, and both worked perfectly well from the very first boot.

    The same applied when I removed the SB Live! and re-enabled the onboard Via audio (Don't ask). Kudzu detected the change, removed the emu10k1 module, and loaded up the via82cxx module.

    I see no reason why, if Mandrake can do this, the others (E.g. Redhat and SuSe) can't.

    Admittedly, all of this is a bit of a kludge, and as we can see, the results differ across distributions. Maybe someone else can do it better? ;)

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  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Interesting

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