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Red Hat: no desktop products coming

Red Hat: no desktop products coming

Posted Apr 19, 2008 4:18 UTC (Sat) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Red Hat: no desktop products coming by dowdle
Parent article: Red Hat: no desktop products coming

"" OR as an alternative porting of commercial applications from those other OSes including
such things that add access to online services that are currently Windows/Mac only... like
iTunes for iTMS (the number one retailer of music)... ""

Porting ? why ?... with virtualization, it could be possible to join KVM, with qemu or
virtualbox running a tailored version of ReactOS, all from the official Linux kernel tree...
and so Linux could have native support for a lot of windows applications... and believe me it
can support much more applications than most people would think possible...

Better it could mean a whole new grand opportunity for "commercial" companys like codeweavers
with its crossover techs and others that could pop up, making also a profit opportunity for
the distros that would bundle them.

I believe that with time most if not all of the most relevant applications  can be supported
natively. Why it hasn't been done yet ?...  i don't now!... politics!?... but in 4 posts in
this thread among all the griefs, i seem the only guy that could have done already some money
out of Linux desktop !?... what is wrong with me!??... 


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