Red Hat Desktop Edition

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.""

Comments

Depends on your distro then

[Vanders]

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? ;)