Novell, RedHat and Sun Commit to a Linux Desktop

DeckerEgo writes "InfoWorld reports on the Linux desktop and how Novell, Sun and RedHat (wha?) are working on making 2004 the year corporations start adopting open desktops. But which desktop? Most interesting to note is how Novell is planning to beef up the number of Ximian, Gnome, Mozilla and OpenOffice developers after its SuSE aquisition is complete. Does this mean that SuSE will stop being one of the best KDE distros out there and follow the way of the Gnome?"

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Redhat to work on desktops? Makes sense to me..

[marcushnk]

RedHat pretty much have the enterprise linux market at the moment.. why not take the easy way out, and make sure that they are very visable in the desktop market, but never put resources into working on it until the other companies have done all the hard pioneering work for them..??!!

They will put bucketloads of support for the linux desktop enviroments/movements, but wait until the market is plump and tender before that roll in and attempt to dominate the market..

Re:Mandrake

[reallocate]

I suspect you could buy Mandrake with rather shallow coffers.

What assets can Mandrake offer? (GPL'd code isn't much of an asset.)

Re:Bad for both KDE and GNOME

[joto]

Well, the correct answer is that you are both wrong. CDE was never used by anybody. It was a completely useless piece of eyecandy, that didn't even look pretty, and certainly didn't perform any useful function, beyond slowing down your machine. It was a piece of bloat forced upon the customers by the marketing department of Sun and others. Most unix server administrators would be just as happy if their machines shipped without it. And they are not going to use Knome or GDE soon either.

It's kinda funny that if you buy a sparkling new Sun server with 16 processors and umpty zillion gigabytes of ram, power it up, and find out that you can't find the fucking command prompt anywhere (it's deeply hidden away in some menu), while all kinds of useless gui apps (calculators, blah, blah) easily accessible. One would think Sun should know their market a little better, the first thing you do when you get a machine like that is not to start playing Solitaire.

Re:Why the will pick Gnome.

[the_2nd_coming]

to bad KDE is such an auwful implimentation of QT.

sure, the framework is a good base to build on, but they have no HIG, no integration fo core apps other than what konq can do (ooooo). KDE feels like it is cobbled together, where Gnome is really great in terms of UI design now.