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Red Hat Returns To the Linux Desktop

Posted by timothy on from the sequels-can-be-good dept.

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.'"

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  1. Pretty eyes by Gizzmonic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothing, but Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Cyber Cynic, has striking green eyes. I wonder if he did that with Photoshop?

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  2. Re:With RedHat. by jamstar7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dood, in Soviet Russia, lame repetitive meme uses YOU, covered in hot grits from a statue of Natalie Portman...

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  3. Re:With RedHat. by causality · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dood, in Soviet Russia, lame repetitive meme uses YOU, covered in hot grits from a statue of Natalie Portman...

    Sitting at +5, Informative. Now, I'm going to step out on a limb here and suggest that there is nothing "insightful" about it. Funny maybe (debatable), but not insightful. If the mods haven't proven the AC's point then I'm not sure what could.

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  4. Re:Hey, I said nigger by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But extreme prejudice was what started all of this!