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View Poll Results: Do you think that Red Hat Linux will be obtaining a MAJOR chunk of desktop OS Market?
No 21 56.76%
Yes 15 40.54%
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Old 10-23-2003
No, i think redhat is plenty refined and polished for the market, but their focus is primarily on the workstation and sever market in the enterprise. At this moment I think the company with the best odds of bringing linux into the general public is Novell. Currently there are novell networks running in a large margin of offices and schools, and now with Novell jumping on the linux bandwagon, if they were to create a distro refined and polished, AND windows like enough to be usable without any prior linux knowledge by the everyday windows userm and to push it as THE os to use on a Novell network, then that would be the best place to start. If people were to begin using linux as the standard in workstations in cubicles, and at libraries, and in schools, then linux will gain a measurable desktop market share. The biggest issue holding back linux on the desktop is the fact that people dont know what it is, how it works, what it looks like, and that it isnt really difficult to use. To take a hold on the school market will educate people from the start that linux is a competant, stable, and easy to use desktop os that is far more affordable than windows.
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