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Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough

Posted by Zonk on from the choosing-where-to-fight-your-battles dept.

eldavojohn writes "We recently discussed the Linux Foundation's decision to leave desktop Linux alone but Red Hat is also steering clear of that goal. The reason? It's too tough. From the company blog: 'It's worth pointing out what's missing in the list above: we have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future. An explanation: as a public, for-profit company, Red Hat must create products and technologies with an eye on the bottom line, and with desktops this is much harder to do than with servers.'"

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  1. Re:Desktop Linux by Bandman · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hey, check into VirtualBox. Of all the desktop VM managers, it's my favorite. It's free, lightweight, and has more features than parallels or VMware, at least as far as I've seen.

    I run XP in it on my linux desktop, and it's great.

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  2. Re:Desktop Linux by Bandman · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They've got the crap powertoys addition that gives you 4 desktops, but there are some 3rd party addons that you can use.

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