http://www.physorg.com/news93515535.html

Funny that the article fails to mention anything aout fedora.(The ads on the page do, however). Does the author of this article know of its existence?
You"d think questions about the implications to fedora could have been asked to the redhat guy.

Redhat could either offer paid support for fedora, or lower the ridiculous pricetag on redhat workstation.

I can only yearn for the days that you could go to the store and get an actual boxed copy of a Linux Distribution with manuals. There was this special feeling you got actually having the box in hand.

I can only hope RH brings a RedHat branded (not Fedora testbed software) desktop solution for home users, for less than $50 a year. And that you can buy it in a real box.

The reason Fedora was not mentioned is because it is not in the same realm of operating system as Red Hat and SLED. Fedora is where Red Hat is tested. They use the Linux community to locate bugs and find solutions to them. If Red Hat did a 20,000 desktop installation of Fedora as released, it would be a support nightmare. SLED is the finished product, Fedora is the beta.

@d3fa1t

A support nightmare?
FUD.

They roll a new version about every six months. Same as ubuntu.
Ubuntu is doing just fine supporting it. Ubuntu designates one every so often for long term support, but it doesn't mean the other releases are unsupported.
Aside from software package formats and update managers, the distros are very similar.

Redhat has been in the Linux(server & desktop) support business a lot longer than ubuntu novell. No reason to assume it would be a "nightmare" for them.

I've been using redhat since 5.1 and am posting this from fedora core 6. I also spent almost year with SLED 9 on a laptop for a job. Nothing about Novell's distro screamed "finished product" any more than fedora or ubuntu.

I don't know about you guys, but I bought Red Hat 5.1 in a store for $49.99 about 8 years ago, and while I don't use it anymore, it was a good release with quality commercial products to justify the cost.

Well based on my personal experience, Ubuntu has the best chance to win the consumers market, which will take quite sometime. The key for Linux Desktop to succeed in the desktop market is that they should try to win the businesses. If they can manage a big-name win (in US), it will be a no brainer from there - a snowball waiting to roll...

Does these existing Linux Distro have what it takes to success in the Desktop market? I believe so, take a look at the corporate requirements at iRels.com Wiki. Feel free to edit the requirements - it is just a wiki for everyone.

I don't know how anyone else perceives this, but I see this article as a breath of fresh air. It presented differing opinions in a way that allows the reader to make up their own mind, rather than having quotes and half-truths cherry-picked to support the author's prejudices. Nicely done, in my opinion.

Mmm, I'm a Unix sysadmin for my work, using Linux from the year 1998
From Red Hat 5.x -> Red Hat 7.x

@the moment I'm using Fedora Core 6 And I'm happy with this distro.
(also used earlier releases from Fedora).
I'm A Fedora Desktop user @home, and removed Windows from my Workstation,
and I do not miss anything, evrything works fine !

So isn't there already a Desktop from Red Hat ;-)

greetz
clavan