Red Hat Desktop Unveiled

Gudlyf writes "Red Hat announced yesterday that they will be releasing a version of their OS -- dubbed 'Red Hat Desktop' -- targeted at corporations, universities and government agencies, "looking to upgrade their PCs but don't want or need all the features that ship with the latest version of Windows", said Matthew Szulik, Red Hat's chief executive, although it's not targeted at consumers. It will cost on average about $5 a month per machine, with additional support services available."

Comments

Re:I'd pay five bucks for my MOTHER-IN-LAW

[Anonymous Coward]

and her skanky disease-ridden Windows laptop

That's no way to talk about my daughter!

Re:I'd pay five bucks for my MOTHER-IN-LAW

[mark_lybarger]

because consumers are too hard to support. in a corporate environment or even education environment, you have _some_ confidence that the people you're working with have some degree of education and experience with the computers.

so that you don't have tech support calls that go like:

tekkie: "now boot the cd to the cd marked boot cdrom"...

mother-in-law: "ok".. 10 second pause. "so, how do i do that?".

tekkie: "open the cdrom drive"

mother-in-law: "ok, it's open"

tekkie: "find the cd marked "boot cdrom"

mother-in-law: "got it"

tekkie: " put that cdrom in the computer and reboot the computer"

mother-in-law: "ok. i put the disk in the drive , now what?"

tekkie: "just a sec. gotta make a beer run before we get too far into this one"

Re:Not open source

[Anonymous Coward]

How dare they include Flash. Some web sites use Flash to deliver ads. For that reason alone, I boycott Flash.

I'm also boycotting Red Hat. Thanks for playing.

Re:cost

[somethinghollow]

but don't want or need all the features that ship with the latest version of Windows

Linux: The only OS that can get away with touting a lack of features as a feature.

Re:Not open source

[FictionPimp]

all websites use html to render their ads. for that reason alone, I surf via telnet to port 80.

Re:I'd pay five bucks for my MOTHER-IN-LAW

[mallo]

Have you talked to your wife about
this?

Re: interesting...

[HD Webdev]

now, if that's the case, the quandary for slashdotters: do you hate red hat more or do you want linux desktops everywhere more?

We want something to bitch about.

Don't worry, we'll find someone to flame for being successful whether it's RedHat, Suse, or Gentoo.

Whenever we get bored with that, we'll start up a text editor flame-war. .

Re:Confusing.

[theantix]

I wish Redhat would officially support home users, but I guess that's not where the potential money is.

I can almost see the light bulb going off in your head.