[TriLUG] different versions of 7.2 for sale]

[Matt Jezorek]

To hear this makes me sad. It seems as RedHat was the best hope at the
present time to take the Desktop Market by storm
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From: "Sinner from the Prairy" <sinner_prairy at hotmail.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] different versions of 7.2 for sale]


> >I would tend to disagree. The fact is, people will jump up
> >and down and write reams about what color the new desktop background is,
> >while completely ignoring the huge amount of work that goes into the
> >kernel for performance and stability. If it looks like the focus is
> >on the desktop, I suspect it's an illusion. If people want to
> >convince themselves thats what our focus is, not much I can do
> >to stop them (though, I really dont understand why any one would
> >do that... I mean, whats the motivation for saying "oh, you say you
> >arent focusing on the desktop, but look at the new gnome rpms you
> >included!!! " ?.)
>
> Actually, FWIK, at RedHat the main target is the business segment and the
> system administrators. It is true that there are "Linux Desktop for
Dummies"
> training available at Red Hat. But the focus is Desktop.
>
> Red Hat only happens to include the latest and greatest desktops
available,
> thanks to the very cool guys at Gnome and KDE projects. This is waht it
> makes Red Hat "desktop oriented" if you wish.
>
> I call this "benefit from Open Source". Yes: you focus on making Linux a
> better big business thing, while other guys focus on Desktop. Because of
GPL
> and openness, both parts can benefit from both devbeopment. So we end with
a
> business-ready, big enterprise-quality AND cool'n'friendly desktop **at
the
> same time**.
>
> Isn't it wondeerful?
>
> >Wonder if people accuse Mandrake of secretly focusing on
> >embedded clients.... ;->
>
> Actualy, I thought that Mandrake was aimed at the embeded market. You
know,
> playing the sims on your Embeded Mandrake Linux Programable TeaPot (TM)
> *grin*
>
>
> Salut,
> Sinner
>
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