Red Hat Returns To the Linux Desktop

CWmike writes "Red Hat used to be in the desktop business along with all the other Linux distributors. Then, they left. Now, however, Red Hat is switching from Xen to KVM for virtualization. As part of that switchover, Red Hat will be using not only KVM, but the SolidICE/SPICE desktop virtualization and management software suite to introduce a new server-based desktop virtualization system. Does this mean that Red Hat will be getting back into the Linux desktop business? That's the question I posed to Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, in a phone call after the Red Hat/KVM press conference, and he told me that, 'Yes. Red Hat will indeed be pushing the Linux desktop again.'"

With RedHat.

[jellomizer]

It will make 2009 the year of the... Oh never mind...

Re:With RedHat.

[genner]

It will make 2009 the year of the... Oh never mind...

Year of the Ox?
China agrees.

Re:With RedHat.

[morgan_greywolf]

If Microsoft succeeds in putting out Windows 7 this year, 2009 may become the Year of Windows on the... Oh wait, nevermind.

Re:Cost-Performance Utopia

[gardyloo]

They didn't put in parentheses for order-of-operations:

LinuxNew = 325x(costLinuxOld - performanceLinuxOld)
and
WindowsNew = 325x(costWindowsOld - performanceWindowsOld)

    There.

Re:Cost-Performance Utopia

[Obfuscant]

So, LinuxNew will be a large negative number and WindowsNew will be a large positive number?

Re:Cost-Performance Utopia

[zooblethorpe]

Unless you started doing anything CPU intensive and went to lunch.

Then it was very efficient at making everyone but you nonproductive.

Hey, now! When we'd muck about on the old VAX in college, that was definitely not a bug, that was a *feature*!

Cheers,