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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.'"
....Ubuntu...??
Offtopic? The article was written by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Cyber Cynic! Did you even RTFA, mods? I didn't think so.
Now you're giving me a headache!
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
You are FOED for being a Gentoo loser. What a wanker.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
It's called the invasion of the clueless Ubuntu fanboys. Who, instead of wanting to discuss the issues with Ubuntu's various bugs, just moderate up anyone who is part of the church of Ubuntu and moderate anyone down who doesn't think Ubuntu's is God's gift to the earth.
I've been using Linux since 1995. I wonder how many of these Ubuntu fanboyz know how to configure an ethernet card with ifconfig? Or how to make a Linux live CD distribution? Or the difference between xdm and gdm. Or know that X is a network desktop.
Or just keep using Windows or Mac OS, which don't hide important functions in obscure programs with nondescriptive names.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
P.S.
Well I followed your instructions. A: Konsole opened-up a CLI window to type commands which I do not know. Therefore I'm still stuck at 640x480. B: I already tried direct-dialing the modem, connected to my ISP, and it just came-up with garbage. C: I don't see any program called "gparted" therefore I can't run it, and I still don't know the size of my HDD, speed of my CPU, or how much memory I have. D: "The program htop is not installed." Well so much for that.
Is this what you call user friendly?
Ready for distribution to the typical Joe American as a Windows replacement???
(laughs)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Ubuntu doesn't come with the DVD or MP3 codecs. It takes two minutes to install the codecs for Fedora? Heck, before RPM Fusion it was a good half an hour; now it's maybe half that. And Fedora doesn't come with a good powerful tool like Synaptic, so honestly I have no idea what you're smoking, but it sounds pretty good.
Yes. I can't recall the package, but it was something that wasn't standard.
I found my post written at the time (Mar 29 2008):
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I haven't installed or used a Red Hat distro since about 2003 -- version 8.1, in fact. I quit about the time that Red Hat announced that all of us nonpaying users were leeches that they were better off without. I ignored the Fedora project, sticking with Kanotix, since it was deb-based, as I was tired of the dependency hell that rpm packages were known for. Kanotix worked after a lot of tweaking, and once Kubuntu reached 6.06, I switched over to that. Kubuntu has had ups and downs but won overall on consistency. It's still the best distro I've ever used. But it only achieved its potential with additional packages, best installed via Automatix.
Well, the news that Automatix is dead prompted me to install Fedora 8 on a spare partition.
Not that I couldn't do what Automatix did via the command prompt, but I figured that it was time to eject my Red Hat prejudices and take a look at what its community has come up with after five years. That, and the end of Automatix might spell the end of K/Ubuntu as the distro of choice for the casual user who wants to give Linux a spin. Those users are its base; tough to survive if your base gets alienated.
And, after five years, I figured that the problems associated with rpm-based distros would be history.
How many words are there on Earth for WRONG?!
Fedora 8 installs fine, and its Gnome desktop looks like a Mac (which is good), but if you add KDE, you lose sound support (as least on my laptop). And I have four packages that can't install because of -- believe it or not -- dependency hell.
It's been five years, folks. Five years! May I be blunt? It's time to ditch the rpms and move to debs. apt works just fine, folks. yum does not. End of story.
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Broken fiddle my backside. That's a legitimate, serious error. And "apt-get install kde-desktop" does not cause this problem in Ubuntu.