Red Hat is planning a packaged Linux desktop solution that it hopes will push its Linux desktop offering to a far broader audience than exists for its current client solution. The move is designed in part to compete with Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform, which includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, which were released in July 2006.
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Member since:2006-05-11
Fedora an incubator? Don't say that to the developers; every interview I've read so far has them pitching Fedora as a viable desktop offering, and that Fedora is not a beta testing environment!
Maybe the same developers feel gutted now that Red Hat has actually owned them by wanting a "viable desktop offering"? 
Member since:2005-07-06
Fedora an incubator? Don't say that to the developers; every interview I've read so far has them pitching Fedora as a viable desktop offering, and that Fedora is not a beta testing environment!
Maybe the same developers feel gutted now that Red Hat has actually owned them by wanting a "viable desktop offering"?
I wish that were the case, but from my experience, they don't spend much time fixing the bugs in their releases; HAL bugs that exist in Fedora 6 in regards to handling multi-partition music cds is up the crapper as one example.
if Fedora want to be taken seriously as a distribution, not only must it be up to date, they must also be willing to hold back a release because there is an unacceptably high number of bugs in it.
Not only do these bugs shed a bad light onto Fedora, but turn people off from running Linux operating system, and as thus, the loss of a potential convert.
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2005-07-06
Fedora was never meant to be a 'desktop for the masses' - Fedora is a community based distribution as a 'incubator' for bleeding edge features which will eventually make their way into the commercial distribution which Red Hat sells.
As for the 'desktop distribution for the masses'; they actually released one called Red Hat Desktop Linux - but it never took off, but then again, when it was made available, it was way back before Fedora - there weren't the applications, heck, I don't even think there was OpenOffice.org yet.
Even today, I don't think Linux is ready for the masses - masses being the walmart shopping moron who thinks that Microsoft Office is the operating system, and the hard disk is the computer case itself; maybe in 18 months once HAL has become more mature, device support improves, Notes 8.0 will be out and mature, OpenOffice.org 2.3-2.4 will show big strides in usability.