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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Red Hat Linux & Desktop Market Share Post 42779 by google on Tuesday 4th of November 2003 05:51:18 AM
Old 11-04-2003
Well, its gonna be kinda tough for Red Hat to gain market share of the desktop when they are not going to support Red Hat 9.0 as of early 2004. In fact they are moving solely to their Enterprise Edition and will no longer release any more commercial desk top versions of Red Hat Linux. There is however, their open source project called Fedora which is aimed at developers as an open source effort. The Fedora project is only available by download (it used to be available by CD for purchase but even that has already been phased out). See Red Hat for more information.

Also, from the Red Hat site link
Q: Do you feel Linux will ever be a viable desktop OS? Or will it stay in the role of server OS? What work is Red Hat doing on this?

There are many different ways of describing a "desktop OS." One scenario is that of the power computer user, someone that needs to be able to run several multi-tasking programs at the same time. The person is heavily dependent on the Internet and is interested in tweaking their operating environment heavily to suit their tastes.

A second scenario might be the "Engineering Workstation," where a particular CAD/CAM or IDE (Integrated Development Environment) application is usually the sole focus, with other graphical programs like a web browser or e-mail client in use the rest of the time.

A third scenario is a computer interface for the non-technical user, one that insulates them from the underlying system and tries to simplify as many tasks as possible.

Red Hat Linux already excels in the first two scenarios, and continues to gain more and more converts as time progresses and Legacy UNIX platforms are phased out. Students, Scientists, and Engineers are all realizing the power of using Red Hat Linux as a desktop OS.

For the third scenario, Linux in general (including Red Hat Linux) is currently not the best fit.
Last edited by google; 11-04-2003 at 01:13 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

rhnsd

UP2DATE(8)							   Red Hat, Inc.							UP2DATE(8)

NAME

       rhnsd - a program for quering the Red Hat Network for updates and information

SYNOPSIS

       rhnsd [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       rhnsd  is  a  daemon  process that runs in the background and periodically polls the Red Hat Network to see if there are any queued actions
       available. If any are queued, it runs them.

       rhnsd is typically started from the init scripts in /etc/init.d/rhnsd when it's time to poll the Red  Hat  Network  servers  for  available
       updates and actions. The default interval is every 120 minutes.	The minimum polling interval is 60 minutes.

       To  check for updates, rhnsd runs an external program called rhn_check. This is a small application that actually makes the network connec-
       tion to Red Hat Networks.

       The rhnsd daemon does not listen on any network ports, nor does it ever talk to the network directly. Any network activity is done via  the
       rhn_check utility.

       rhnsd  can  be configure by editing the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd config file. This is actually the configuration file the rhnsd init script
       /etc/init.d/rhnsd uses.

       -i, --interval
	      Specify the interval that rhnsd should wait between checking the Red Hat Network. Default is 120 minutes, the minimum is 60 minutes.
	      This can also be specified in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd

       -v, --verbose
	      output more information about what rhnsd is doing.

       -f, --foreground
	      force the rhnds process to run in the foreground instead of automatically backgrounding itself, as it does by default.

       FILES
       /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd
	      Configuration settings for the rhnsd daemons init script.
       /usr/sbin/rhn_check
	      The external program launched by rhnsd to connect to the Red Hat Network and retrieve any actions that have queued up.
       /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid
	      A certification that authenticates the client machine to the Red Hat Network. Generated via the up2date or rhnreg_ks utility.

SEE ALSO

       The rhnsd daemon is tightly coupled with Red Hat Network.  Visit <http://www.redhat.com/network> for access or to sign up.

       rhn_check(8), up2date(8), up2date-config(8),

AUTHORS

       Written by Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com> and
       Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <http://bugzilla.redhat.com>.
COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Red Hat, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

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