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general.rule
April 18th, 2008, 07:47 PM
EarlierI read at your forum about the commercial Linux distros for desktop and most replied that at No. 1 comes Red Hat, 2- SUSE, 3- Linspire, 4- Xandros and some others. Now that Red Hat would not be making any further RHED who is best suited to take its position. Would it be SUSE as world most successful desktop Linux distro?:-?
ibutho
April 18th, 2008, 08:33 PM
They are not stopping work on desktop related products altogether. They already have RHEL 5 desktop and the global desktop product they are working on is going to be for emerging markets. What they have said is that they won't be releaseing a traditional desktop distro. I can understand their point of view because there is very little money to be made from desktop linux at the moment.
Foster Grant
April 18th, 2008, 08:49 PM
They already don't have a Red Hat-branded desktop distro.

That would be Fedora.
samwyse
April 19th, 2008, 07:51 AM
They already don't have a Red Hat-branded desktop distro.

That would be Fedora.
Yep, Red Hat Linux was discontinued in 2003.
toupeiro
April 19th, 2008, 07:54 AM
Redhat Enterprise linux will always have a desktop client. Fedora is redhat sponsored, and community driven. This replaces the once freely open "Redhat Linux" Different name, same ideology. Needless to say, RedHat is most certainly not out of the desktop industry.
K.Mandla
April 19th, 2008, 08:57 AM
Moved to Fedora/RedHat discussion area.
Foster Grant
May 1st, 2008, 04:03 AM
Redhat Enterprise linux will always have a desktop client. Fedora is redhat sponsored, and community driven. This replaces the once freely open "Redhat Linux" Different name, same ideology. Needless to say, RedHat is most certainly not out of the desktop industry.

And if one were to get really picky about it, CentOS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a different name and logo.