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Red Hat: no desktop products coming

Red Hat: no desktop products coming

Posted Apr 17, 2008 23:37 UTC (Thu) by motk (subscriber, #51120)
In reply to: Red Hat: no desktop products coming by dlang
Parent article: Red Hat: no desktop products coming

Uh, what do you think Fedora (and CentOS to a lesser extent) is for?

When I bought my copy of Red Hat 4 back in the day, I did it not because I needed support -
but because I would've been running it anyway, and wanted to give a little back. I doubt my
$40 made a huge difference in the scheme of things but that's fine. And I'm sure if you gave
Red Hat a bag of gold and said "desktop us, right now" they'd happily do so. They simply don't
currently see a market for throwing shrinkwrapped boxes on the shelves right now, and I don't
blame them.


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