[ILUG] Linux, Arranmore Island, Co. Donegal

[P at draigBrady.com]

Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Saturday 22 May 2004, P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> 
>>I should also add that since redhat now have
>>a desktop specific distro they are going
>>to look at increasing performance of it:
>>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2004-May/msg00025.html
> 
> They're not, you know. The focus of the new RH desktop is is to sell a yearly
> service to corporates at a price per seat per year. Curiously, this is exactly
> what SuSE/Novell and Sun want do to (oh - there's a little company called
> Microsoft trying to do the same thing).
> 
> The focus being on corporates, I doubt that RedHat is going to spend a red
> cent on increasing its performance. Corporates work on a 3/4 year replacement
> cycle for PCs and the average PC of 3 years ago probably has molre than enough
> oomph to run my unholy triumvirate of KDE (or Gnome), OO and Mozilla.
> 
> IMO if you believe that RedHat's new desktop plans have any bearing on what
> the people in Aranmore will be doing, you're sadly miataken.

Well if an existing corporate network was running windows 95 for e.g.
and RedHat were able to upgrade them to RedHat desktop 1 with
maybe just a mem upgrade, then that's a nice advantage for both.

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