[TriLUG] Who runs Red Hat and KDE

Matt Wilson msw at redhat.com
Tue May 27 00:13:21 EDT 2003


On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 11:45:23PM -0400, Jon Carnes wrote:
> 
> Personally I run Mandrake at home (and KDE).  For legal reasons,
> Mandrake is able to provide more built-in functionality for encryption
> and VPN technology than Red Hat.

There's very little standing in the way legally with encryption and
VPN technology.  It's been a maturity issue lately.  The 2.5 kernel
has a lot of what we've been working on for IPSec in linux with the
community for the past few months.

> Linux is usable by everyone. A large part of my consulting business is
> migrating businesses off of "proprietary" OS's and applications and over
> to Open Source OS's and applications. My clients love Red Hat! 
> Especially the look and feel of RHL 9.

Great to hear.

Cheers,

Matt
msw at redhat.com
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Matt Wilson
Manager, Base Operating Systems
Red Hat, Inc.



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