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

NAME
rhn_check - Check for and execute queued actions on RHN. SYNOPSIS
rhn_check [options] DESCRIPTION
rhn_check is a client program that connects to "Spacewalk Server", "Red Hat Satellite" or "Red Hat Network Classic" and receives queued actions for this particular system. After receiving the actions, rhn_check will then process them, and return the results to Spacewalk. OPTIONS
-v, --verbose Increase the debugging output. --proxy=PROXY Specify an http proxy to use. --proxyUser=PROXYUSER Specify a username to use for an authenticated proxy. This option must be used in conjunction with proxyPassword. --proxyPassword=PROXYPASSWORD Specify a password to use for an authenticated proxy. This option must be used in conjunction with proxyUser. --version Show the program's version number and exit. -h, --help Show a help message and exit. FILES
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid The digital server ID for this machine if the system has been registered onto "Spacewalk Server", "Red Hat Satellite" or "Red Hat Network Classic". This file does not exist otherwise. /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date The common configuration file used by RHN client programs. SEE ALSO
rhn_register(8), rhnreg_ks(8), rhnsd(8), rhn-profile-sync(8), rhnplugin(8), up2date(5). AUTHORS
See the AUTHORS file included with this software. This manual page was written by James Bowes <jbowes@redhat.com> BUGS
Report bugs to <http://bugzilla.redhat.com>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1999-2010 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. Linux 2010 August 30 RHN_CHECK(8)
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