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In what surely came as a blow to many Linux aficionados, Red Hat announced Wednesday that it will not develop a desktop implementation of the operating system for the consumer market anytime soon. "We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future," the company wrote in a post on its blog, citing market pressures as its reason. "The desktop market suffers from having one dominant vendor, and some people still perceive that today's Linux desktops simply don't provide a practical alternative."
Hard to see why they went that long. Fedora already is the desktop version, and RH has been pretty crappy for a desktop OS. RPM has been cantankerous for years.
This means nothing except Red Hat lost it's way. There are much better desktops that passed RH years ago.
I fail to see the blow. If they shut down, maybe. The strength of Linux is the large number of options. You won't see anything like Vista because Linux not a proprietary and there are hundreds of other Distros. This is a blow to Red Hat, not Linux.
This means nothing except Red Hat lost it's way. There are much better desktops that passed RH years ago.
I fail to see the blow. If they shut down, maybe. The strength of Linux is the large number of options. You won't see anything like Vista because Linux not a proprietary and there are hundreds of other Distros. This is a blow to Red Hat, not Linux.
