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Red Hat Returns To the Linux Desktop
CWmike writes "Red Hat used to be in the desktop business along with all the other Linux distributors. Then, they left. Now, however, Red Hat is switching from Xen to KVM for virtualization. As part of that switchover, Red Hat will be using not only KVM, but the SolidICE/SPICE desktop virtualization and management software suite to introduce a new server-based desktop virtualization system. Does this mean that Red Hat will be getting back into the Linux desktop business? That's the question I posed to Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, in a phone call after the Red Hat/KVM press conference, and he told me that, 'Yes. Red Hat will indeed be pushing the Linux desktop again.'"
Nigger returns to the African desktop. Mod me down.
Why would I want to use a server solution on my desktop? Right now, there's only this OSs to use in the desktop:
- Mac OS X
- Windows
The other ones are just server OS, is time to accept it.
ZOMG!!! Teh Lunix on Teh Desktop!!
Just what everyone needs- another distro and another ten versions of a text editor!
Win7 is right around the corner- new tail lights to chase!
In my opinion Linux has a long way to go before it replaces Windows. It has too many Non-user-friendly features. Examples:
- I changed my laptop from 1280x1024 resolution to 640x480 resolution. Then I decided to go back, but the desktop properties windows has the "OK" button off the screen. With Windows such a problem would not happen because pressing the Enter key automatically selects okay. On Ubuntu Linux it does not. Now I'm stuck with 640x480. :-|
- I still can't get my Ubuntu machine to connect to my Netscape Dialup ISP. The Netscape software crashes, and even after a connection is established, all I see is a lot of garbage.
- I have no idea what speed the CPU is, or how much RAM, because I can't find a "My Computer" or equivalent properties icon. The size of the hard drive is also a mystery; Ubuntu keeps telling me it's 20 gig, even though I'm fairly certain it's 300 based upon the specs at compaq.com. Weird.
- And other niddly little frustrations.
I've used a wide range of OSes from Commodore GEOS to Amiga Workbench to Mac to Windows 3.1 to modern Windows, so I'm used to dealing with the learning curve of switching between them, and the inherent frustrations. A casual user is not. A casual user needs an OS to be stupidity proof, and blindingly obvious to navigate. Linux just ain't there yet.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
you people are testing what we expect to sell as 'enterprise' for a premium later on
If you want to download RHEL for free, get CentOS. Identical to RHEL, but free. And, from what I hear, RedHat doesn't mind CentOS' existence.
The issue with Ubuntu is that it's buggy as hell. RedHat at least admits that Fedora Core is an open beta; Ubuntu 8.10 is an open beta but Ubuntu didn't inform me of this fact.
I've had enough of Ubuntu's bugs. I'm going back to Fedora Core.