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Red Hat Develops Online Desktop

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hope-your-isp-is-reliable dept.

pete314 writes "Red Hat announced this week at their San Diego Red Hat Summit that they are planning to compete with Microsoft on the desktop by building an 'online desktop' that will integrate local data with online services. Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens argued that: 'To user the desktop metaphor is dead. We don't believe that recreating a Windows paradigm in an open source model will do anything to advance the productivity in the life of users.'"

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  1. Quick - someone tell Apple that they're DOOMED! by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens argued that: 'To user the desktop metaphor is dead. We don't believe that recreating a Windows paradigm...will do anything to advance the productivity in the life of users.'"


    Quick - someone tell Apple that they're DOOMED!
    1. Re:Quick - someone tell Apple that they're DOOMED! by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Now way. Apple can't be doomed. It's been a whole week since someone released an "iPod killer."

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  2. Yeah by crush · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu are great. They spread non-Free firmware and drivers. Awesome. That's what I call leadership. What's this deal that Canonical is doing with Linspire, Microsoft, Dell and Novell?

    Order a free CD from Ubuntu and bin it.

  3. Doesn't seem to slow them down any... by Kadin2048 · · Score: 5, Funny

    suggests to me that online applications would need to have similar or identical security access to locally installed applications. This seems, uh... possibly problematic.
    Oh, come on ... Microsoft's been doing that for years!

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  4. Emerging markets... by MatrixCubed · · Score: 5, Funny

    FTFA: "The Linux desktop market has been limited to single function devices such as cash registers and applications in emerging markets." I've heard this term 'emerging markets' for so long now, you'd think they'd have emerged by now...

    1. Re:Emerging markets... by Mathness · · Score: 2, Funny
      My guess is that they have not looked into optimizing the build, while the following will work fine, the build time is very long

      root~$ emerge market
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    2. Re:Emerging markets... by archen · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe they're emerging using gentoo on a 486

  5. Re:What about when you are offline? by nytes · · Score: 3, Funny

    No internet access while on the subway???

    But you're sitting right there, in one of the tubes!!!

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