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Red Hat: Always againt the desktop preferred by the majority.Red Hat: Always againt the desktop preferred by the majority.Posted Apr 21, 2008 19:19 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)In reply to: Red Hat: Always againt the desktop preferred by the majority. by morhippo Parent article: Red Hat: no desktop products coming
""" I think Redhat's experience and difficulties with marketing Gnome forever spoiled any Redhat desktop efforts, as no one wanted to admit that they put their money on the wrong horse from the very beginning. """ The #1 home desktop distro is Gnome-based. The #1 enterprise desktop distro is Gnome-based. The #2 enterprise desktop distro is Gnome-based. Hardly the "wrong horse". Hard as it may be for some people to swallow, there is not enough money in consumer Linux desktops to make it a reasonable business proposition at this time. If there were, Canonical would be profitable, and it's still existing on Shuttleworth's funds. I'm afraid we have a continued wait ahead of us.
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Red Hat: Always againt the desktop preferred by the majority. Posted Apr 21, 2008 20:37 UTC (Mon) by morhippo (subscriber, #334) [Link] Most polls in recent years have constantly shown that KDE is the preferred desktop even though Redhat has pushed Gnome and even though Novell has started to favour Gnome after the acquisition of Ximian. Basically, even though companies have always preferred Gnome, as it makes the development of unfree applications easier and cheaper due to being Lesser GPL(btw, where are these great unfree commercial applications for gnome? - never seen anything substantial), the users and the community have carried on preferring KDE. Several of the consumer focussed desktop distributions have KDE as default: Kubuntu, Knoppix, PcLinuxOs, Slackware, Mepis, Xandros (EEEPC), ....)
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