Assuming that RedHat actually buys Corel (which I think is extremely unlikely), I doubt they'd ever open-source any of Corel's products such as WPOffice or Draw etc. The only reason I can see RH buying Corel is because they feel Corel is a good investment; open-sourcing the only things Corel is really making money from just wouldn't make good business sense for them.
What I can see, though, is RedHat pushing further development of Corel's apps on the Linux desktop, including their integration into GNOME or possibly KDE. This will probably happen anyways, though, regardless of whether RedHat buys Corel or not. The only thing I am pretty sure of is that this would be the end of the Corel Linux distro.
Sorry, but I fail to see your point. While it's true that more and more things (ranging from games to desktops to productivity apps) become available for linux on a daily basis, this shouldn't really affect how bloated you perceive the OS.
If you want a lean, mean server, don't install the goodies. Skip KDE, skip Gnome. Hell, even skip all of X unless you absolutely need the graphical config tools. If you want to play, however, put it all on your box. You don't even need separate, specialized distributions to do this. Using RedHat (just as an example), and a bit of know-how as to which packages do what, it should be trivial to set your box up as a web/ftp server with not much else, or as a Gnome desktop workstation, or both. The only way bloat really comes into the picture here is that eventually we're going to need 2, 3, or more install CDs to hold all the different packages that are available. Similarly, the Linux kernel can be "bloated" to your liking or made quite minimalistic, depending on how you compile it (or what modules you load).
Personally, I like this type of "Linux bloat" where you can pick and choose what you want (and don't) much better than the typical MS bloat where gui and thousands of other "options" are there, regardless of whether you want them.
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Assuming that RedHat actually buys Corel (which I think is extremely unlikely), I doubt they'd ever open-source any of Corel's products such as WPOffice or Draw etc. The only reason I can see RH buying Corel is because they feel Corel is a good investment; open-sourcing the only things Corel is really making money from just wouldn't make good business sense for them.
What I can see, though, is RedHat pushing further development of Corel's apps on the Linux desktop, including their integration into GNOME or possibly KDE. This will probably happen anyways, though, regardless of whether RedHat buys Corel or not. The only thing I am pretty sure of is that this would be the end of the Corel Linux distro.
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Sorry, but I fail to see your point. While it's true that more and more things (ranging from games to desktops to productivity apps) become available for linux on a daily basis, this shouldn't really affect how bloated you perceive the OS.
If you want a lean, mean server, don't install the goodies. Skip KDE, skip Gnome. Hell, even skip all of X unless you absolutely need the graphical config tools. If you want to play, however, put it all on your box.
You don't even need separate, specialized distributions to do this. Using RedHat (just as an example), and a bit of know-how as to which packages do what, it should be trivial to set your box up as a web/ftp server with not much else, or as a Gnome desktop workstation, or both. The only way bloat really comes into the picture here is that eventually we're going to need 2, 3, or more install CDs to hold all the different packages that are available.
Similarly, the Linux kernel can be "bloated" to your liking or made quite minimalistic, depending on how you compile it (or what modules you load).
Personally, I like this type of "Linux bloat" where you can pick and choose what you want (and don't) much better than the typical MS bloat where gui and thousands of other "options" are there, regardless of whether you want them.
Choice is good!